How Does Religion Affect Rome

‘Christians to the lions’ as Trajan would say, an emperor in the early centuries Christianity to them have alienated the favour of their gods which has and would continue to cause disasters in the Roman Empire. The misfortune of Christians did not stop during this period, but it did come to a composed halt as Galerius, gave Christians the right to worship in some sense. Christianity during the early stages was clearly a course of persecution and forced pagan accusations. Constantine dramatically changed the recourse of religions with the battle of Milvian Bridge as Christianity became the predominant religion of the Roman Empire.

Doc 7 states,” Meanwhile, popes and other church leaders took an increased role in political affairs, further complicating the government.” This shows that Christianity complicated the government by having church leaders take participation in the government. In summary, Christianity weakened the Roman army, complicated the Roman government, and helped cause the fall of

Christianity was frowned upon by the Romans. The Roman Emperor wanted the people to worship him and the Roman Gods. Christians were blamed for many of the misfortunes that happened in Rome. Due to the belief that Christians were to blame they were ostracized, tortured and even killed.

The Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires around it’s time period. They ruled their region with an overpowering military force. They also had compelling agriculture and religion. Much of their music, clothes, and other agriculture continued on throughout other empires. They shaped the world with their beliefs and ideas and without this empire the world would be very different. There were strong Roman emperors and also horrible emperors who ruined the empire. Caesar and Constantine were among the most popular emperors of Rome. Constantine ruled later in the Empires lifetime while Caesar earlier. The death of Caesar had a huge impact on this empire. Constantine gave the Roman Empire the main religion of Christianity. This questioned the original beliefs of the Romans. They totally changed their culture. Towards the fall of the Roman Empire, the empire was split into two parts. This weakened their strong military force and led to an invasion. Evidently this caused Rome’s fall. The Roman Empires fall was due to the death of Caesar, mass poverty among Rome’s citizens, rise of Christianity, split of empires, and the invasions of the barbarians.

For the Romans, religion was very important and a key factor in how they lived they everyday lives. It is through the writings of the period, such as those from the authors like Aulus Gellius and Propertius which allow us to see how the Romans understood the Gods. This is seen through how they treated and acted towards the Gods, how they treated religion and politics, how the believed the Gods acted and through the offerings and sacrifices in which the offered to them. The Romans believed that the Gods were Anthropomorphic and therefore behaved as human beings.

Religion has impacted humans in a way. Influencing humans in their beliefs and values. Both the Greeks and Romans were polytheistic they believed that there were many Gods who controlled all parts of human life. The Greek origin of mythology is not known. The Greeks were before the Romans. The Romans stole most Greek beliefs. Both truly believed the Earth had a soul. Both took part in sacrifices and rituals to please the Gods. Both believed in many Gods who were the same Gods in a sense. The Greek Gods were based upon human personality traits. Such as honor, love, hatred, and dignity. Romans based their Gods on objects and not traits. The Greeks tried their best to focus on their physical life on earth rather than their afterlife. The Romans

Constantine I was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity and he also stopped the persecution of Christians in the empire. Christianity was a large departure from the earlier Paganistic beliefs which dominated Roman culture and religion for the entirety of its existence up until this point. Christianity brought many changes to Roman culture but its most important change was its effect on the women of Rome. Christianity caused women role in Roman to diminish and was harmful to women due to the rejection of the body and in the loss of religious power for women. Women in Rome before Christianity were expected to be good housewives, care for the children and women were allowed to become priestesses and prophets.

"You shall haven't other gods before me." As a Christian they believe in the 10 commandments. In the beginning Androcles left the Roman Empire because he was a Christian and you weren't allowed to be that there. Then Androcles helped out a lion that had a thorn stuck in his paw . They had Christians as prisoners, and they were going to be thrown into the arena to fight gladiators or be eaten by lions . The captain was trying to tell the Christians what they could do to be set free; which was throwing sparkling incense on the altar, but nobody wanted to do it be ways it was against their religion to do it. Then later on in the play one of the Christians named Spintho dashed to get to the altar but was seen by a lion and ate. Later Ferrovius was thrown to fight the gladiators with no armor and killed 6 gladiators, the emperor was amazed by that... Nobody else wasn't going to be thrown in the arena, but they didn't want the people to get disappointed so they threw in Androcles, but the lion didn't even eat him because that was the lion he helped out so he recognize Androcles. In the

Ancient Rome and Christianity experienced many similarities and differences throughout their time. Because the Roman World began their religion multiple years before Christianity began to erupt, therefore Christianity was persecuted by the Roman World. The Roman World based their religion off gods and goddesses while Christianity was based off of Jesus and his crucifixion on the cross for our sins. These religions share different but in some way similar purposes, virtue, and destiny.

In the ancient Roman world, religion played the most important role in everyday life, as well as in matters of the state. The Romans looked to the gods for political stability and for control of the unexplainable and natural phenomenon. The gods were believed to control all aspects of Roman life, and for that reason, a great deal of importance was placed in the appropriate worship of the gods. Women played an extremely influential role in ancient Roman religion. Not only did they participate in religious rituals, but some even held religious positions as Vestal Virgins.

The culture in Ancient Rome has a massive impact on our society today, it influenced our sports, language, government, technology, etc.

There are many differences between Christianity and Roman religion. There are also similarities between the two of how they both worshipped in a place even if the place was different. Big difference is that they believed in gods and also they had different ways of religious. Roman did not like people turning away from Roman religion, and that caused harsh punishment to Christian to occur. Christianity became popular in Rome is after “the Jesus movement” occurred in Judea. Another key point that needs to be discussed is what the Roman did to deal with the people who turned away from Roman religion to Christianity.

As most of the civilizations studied so far in Western Civilization – the Romans were a religious people. From the rise of the Roman Empire to the fall of its institutions, there was always a backdrop of religious involvement in the affairs of the state and people. Polytheism seems to reign throughout the majority of the Empire. Although the book states very little about the religious affairs of the people, one can conclude that this society was totally influenced by their beliefs that the gods had a hand in all the affairs of the State and of the people.

This quote means to me that all roads to daily life lead to Rome. Have you ever wondered

– “The years as they come bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away” – Horace (65BC – 8BC)