across the empire most romans unquestioningly followed the rights of their religion priests appeased the gods with sacrifices and as long as the empire prospered all was well. tombstones and inscriptions from the first century the romans to believed in an afterlife but their ideas of what it looked like differed. one thing all romans had in common was a fear of being forgotten. immortal glory was the highest achievable goal those are good afforded mark their grave with a tombstone. them in fact question it's the motivation behind the past occasion of christians through the roman authorities probably lay in the notion that this here was an unpredictable bunch of. who it was fit could start