LINK BETWEEN RELIGIOUS AND CIVIC LIFE IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE Religion in the Roman empire ... would have to deal was the cult of the Persian God, Mithras. Now this too, like, Christianity, was ...

It now faced a new geopolitical adversary: the Sassanid Persian Empire, where Zoroastrianism was the state religion. This confrontation evolved into a kind of "world war" that lasted nearly three ...

They wanted to retain their Christian faith at any cost. Catholicos Hovsep of Armenia summoned a meeting of the clergy and ...

Roman religion was split in two ... to spread abroad and Isis came to be worshipped across the Empire. In the same way, the Persian god Mithras was popular with the Roman legions – many of ...