Religion in ancient Rome

Religion in ancient Rome encompassed the religious beliefs and cult practices regarded by the Romans as indigenous and central to their identity as a people, as well as the various and many cults imported from other peoples brought under Roman rule. Romans thus offered cult to innumerable deities who influenced every aspect of both the natural world and human affairs. Their temples were the visible, sacred, and enduring manifestations of Rome's history and institutions.
Romans could offer cult to any deity or combination of deities, as long as it did not offend the mos maiorum, the "custom of the ancestors," that is, Roman tradition. Good relations between mortals and the divine (pax deorum) were maintained by piety through the correct offering of ritual and divine honours, especially in the form of sacrifice. The gods were supposed to provide benefits in return. Impieties such as religious negligence, superstition and self-indulgence could provoke divine wrath against the

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