The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...

colleges of priests paid tribute to these gods on behalf of Rome itself. The objective of Roman worship was to gain the blessing of the gods and thereby gain prosperity for themselves, their ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art, which has featured the bronze in its collection ... From the time of Augustus, Roman emperors were venerated as gods, sometimes alongside the deities themselves.