Alypius was afterwards commissioned to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem as part of Julian's systematic attempt to reverse the Christianization of the Roman Empire by restoring pagan and, in this case, Jewish practices.

Though God commanded instruments to be used in Temple worship, and the daily life of Israel, the first recorded example of a musical instrument in Roman Catholic worship was an organ introduced by Pope Vitalian into a cathedral in Rome around 670.

The first Christians were, like Jesus, Israelites resident in Roman Israel who worshiped on occasion in the Temple in Jerusalem and weekly in local synagogues.

* Temple ( Roman )

Though some Roman patrons ordered marble replicas of the specifically Anatolian " Diana " of Ephesus, where the Temple of Artemis stood, Diana was usually depicted for educated Romans in her Greek guise.

Fondation Baur and Museum of the arts d ' Extrême-Orient, Parc et campagne de la Grange and Library ( neolithic shore settlement / Roman villa ), Bronze Age shore settlement of Plonjon, Temple de la Madeleine archeological site, Temple Saint-Gervais archeological site, Old City with Celtic, Roman and medieval villages

By the 3rd century, Pagans Hill Roman Temple in Somerset was able to exist peaceably and it did so into the 5th century.

The Temple of Mithras is one example of the popularity of mystery religions amongst the rich urban classes and temples to Mithras also exist in military contexts at Vindobala on Hadrian's Wall ( the Rudchester Mithraeum ) and at Segontium in Roman Wales ( the Caernarfon Mithraeum ).

The Jewish Temple in Jerusalem was granted special permission not to display an effigy of the emperor, becoming the only religious structure in the Roman Empire that did not do so.

In 362, the last pagan Roman Emperor, Julian the Apostate, announced plans to rebuild the Jewish Temple.

** Mishnaic Hebrew – Post Temple Roman Era ( 1st through 4th Century CE )

* 70 – First Jewish – Roman War: Siege of Jerusalem – Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount.

The 17th of Tammuz traditionally marks the first breach in the walls of the Second Temple during the Roman occupation.

Image: Francesco Hayez 017. jpg | The Menorah is seen being sacked as the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was being destroyed by the Roman army.

* 1764 – Edward Gibbon observes a group of friars singing in the ruined Temple of Jupiter in Rome, which inspires him to begin work on The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Lemaire states in Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple that the principal points of the biblical tradition of Solomon are generally trustworthy.

The eternal fire in the Temple of Vesta at the Roman Forum is extinguished, and the Vestal Virgins are disbanded.

On the Greek island of Delos a Doric Temple of Isis was built on a high over-looking hill at the beginning of the Roman period to venerate the familiar trinity of Isis, the Alexandrian Serapis and Harpocrates.

An old Roman Temple in Erak al AmirIn the Neolithic period ( 8500-4500 BC ), three major shifts occurred.

An example is the Roman Catholic Sagrada Familia Temple in Barcelona, Spain and the Roman Catholic Basilique du Sacré-Cœur Temple in Paris, France.

Roman marble Bust of Artemis after Cephisodotus the Elder | Kephisodotos ( Musei Capitolini ), Rome.

* Theoi Project, Artemis, information on Artemis from original Greek and Roman sources, images from classical art.

It was founded by Zsuzsanna Budapest in the United States in the 1970s, and is notable for its focus on the worship of the Goddess ( usually Artemis ; Roman: Diana ), and on feminism.

Artemis with a Hind, a Ancient Rome | Roman copy of an Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek sculpture, c325 BC, by Leochares

The cultural and psychological importance of hunting in ancient societies is represented by deities such as the horned god Cernunnos, and lunar goddesses of classical antiquity, the Greek Artemis or Roman Diana.

To safeguard herself and Caesarion, she had Antony order the death of her sister Arsinoe, who was living at the temple of Artemis in Ephesus, which was under Roman control.

In 2007, a Roman art | Roman-era bronze sculpture of " Artemis and the Stag " was sold at Sotheby's in New York for United States dollar | US $ 28. 6 million, by far exceeding its estimates and at the time setting the new record as List of most expensive sculptures | the most expensive sculpture as well as work from antiquity ever sold at auction.

This story is related somewhat differently by the Roman writer Ovid: Arethusa, a beautiful nymph, once while bathing in the river Alfeios in Arcadia, was surprised and pursued by the river god ; but the goddess Artemis took pity upon her and changed her into a well, which flowed under the earth to the island of Ortygia.

Eileithyia, along with Artemis and Persephone, is often shown carrying torches to bring children out of darkness and into light: in Roman mythology her counterpart in easing labor is Lucina (" of the light ").

Roman sarcophagus: Apollo and Artemis killing the 14 children of Niobe ( front side ).

In the iconography of Greek myth, the kneeling pose is also found in representations of Leto ( Roman Latona ) giving birth to Apollo and Artemis ( Diana ), and of Auge giving birth to Telephus, son of Herakles ( Hercules ).

Coins found in Nablus dating to this period depict Roman military emblems and gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon such as Zeus, Artemis, Serapis, and Asklepios.

The Greek gods were equated with the ancient Roman deities ; Zeus with Jupiter, Hera with Juno, Poseidon with Neptune, Aphrodite with Venus, Ares with Mars, Artemis with Diana, Athena with Minerva, Hermes with Mercury, Hephaestus with Vulcan, Hestia with Vesta, Demeter with Ceres, Hades with Pluto, Tyche with Fortuna, and Pan with Faunus.

The name Artemisia ( Anāhitā ) derives from Artemis ( n, f .; Roman equivalent: Diana ).

Often the epithet is the result of fusion of the Olympian divinity with an older one: Poseidon Erechtheus, Artemis Orthia, reflect intercultural equations of a divinity with an older one, that is generally considered its pendant ; thus most Roman gods and goddesses, especially the Twelve Olympians, had traditional counterparts in Greek, Etruscan, and most other Mediterranean pantheons, e. g. Jupiter as head of the Olympian Gods with Zeus, but in specific cult places there may even be a different equation, based on one specific aspect of the divinity.

Interest in Hermogenes of Priene ( late 3rd-early 2nd century BCE ), the Hellenistic architect of a temple of Artemis Leukophryene ( Artemision ) at Magnesia in Lydia, an Ionian colony on the banks of the Maeander river in Anatolia, has been sparked by references to his esthetic made by the 1st century Roman architect Vitruvius ( De Architectura, books iii, 2 and 6 ).

Presumably, a copy of the " Artemis of Versailles " ( now at the Louvre Museum ), which is a Roman copy of a Hellenistis marble sculpture.

* The Farnese Artemis, again a Roman copy of a Greek original

In Roman mythology, Hippolytus was deified as the god Virbius ; Artemis was the Greek name of the goddess identified with the Roman Diana.

Artemis with a Hind, a Ancient Rome | Roman copy of an Ancient Greece | ancient Greek sculpture, circa 325 BC, by Leochares

His divine wife was ' Thana ', a Delmatic goddess mostly comparable with Roman Diana and Greek Artemis.