| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 396 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford readings in classical studies |
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Oxford readings in classical studies.
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| Contents |
Dead dogs and rattles: time, space, and ritual sacrifice in Iron Age Latium / Christopher Smith -- The priest and the magistrate: reflections on the priesthoods and public law at the end of the Republic / John Scheid -- Acca Larentia gains a son: myths and priesthood at Rome / Mary Beard -- Religion and war: on the relationship of a society's religious and political systems / Jörg Rüpke -- Not the one nor the many; a pragmatic approach to religious behaviour in a polytheistic society: the example of Rome / Andreas Bendlin -- Action and ritual in Roman historians: or how Horatius held the doorpost / John North -- Rites and practices of warfare in Italy between Romans and Samnites: Going under the yoke and the Samnite Legio Linteata / Olivier de Cazanove -- Festus and the role of women in Roman religion / Rebecca Flemming -- Interpreting sacrificial ritual in Roman poetry: disciplines and their models / Denis Feeney -- The ritual of centuriation: Frontinus, Hyginus Gromaticus, and centuriation / Daniel J. Gargola -- The Lucus Pisaurensis and the Romanization of the Ager Gallicus / Filippo Coarelli -- Rome and the great places of worship in Italy / John Scheid -- Cicero and divination: the formation of a Latin discourse / Mary Beard -- The peace of Augustus, the equinox, and the centre of the world / Alfred Schmid |
| Summary |
"The Religious History of the Roman Empire discusses the aspects of the religious life of Republican Rome and the fall of the Republican constitution. It primarily revolves around Iron Age rituals; Roman priesthood; religion and war; polytheism; religious rituals; and Italian warfare practices. Additionally, the book provides a vivid description of the role of women; sacrificial rituals in Roman poetry; the centuriation ritual; Roman divination; and Augustan Peace and the stars, while correlating the matters to Roman republican religion. It also explores questions regarding the balance between ritual and belief, especially in terms of interpreting religious traditions. In the later years of the Republic, works on religious themes rose even prior to the prominence of Cicero and Varro"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on February 22, 2024) |
| Subject |
Religion & beliefs.
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Religion.
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- Religious life and customs
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Rome -- History -- Republic, 510-30 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115114
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
North, John, 1938- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780198872689 |
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0198872682 |
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9780191983740 |
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0191983748 |
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