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Godstone, Surrey, first screened 25 March 2007

Time Trial

Until the imposition of Christianity on the Roman empire in the 4th century AD, Roman religion and beliefs involved many different gods. Try our quick quiz to see how much you know about them.

(The quiz uses JavaScript so you need to be using Netscape 3, Internet Explorer 3.01 or above, and have JavaScript enabled)

In the Godstone programme, Time Team reconstructed a Roman priest's sceptre with a figurehead of the god Mercury. Whose son was he?

 

As well as being the god of commerce and speed, who else is Mercury identified with?

 

Who was the god of the domestic hearth-fire and one of the guardian deities of the Roman state?

 

What was the Roman name for the Earth Mother goddess?

 

Which Roman goddess of spring has a month named after her?

 

Which month, formerly called Quintilis, the Latin for fifth month, was renamed in honour of a mortal who became a god?

 

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Victor's reconstruction: The Mercury sceptre
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Raksha's trench
Victor's Roman gods

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