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An Introduction to Roman Religion

Author : John Scheid
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253216601
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Roman Religion written by John Scheid and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Introduction to Roman Religion" offers students of ancient Rome and classical civilization entry into a distant world in which the state, the social life of the city, and religion were inextricably bound. Professor Scheid draws on the latest findings in archaeology and history to explain the meanings of rituals, rites, auspices, and oracles, to describe the uses of temples and sacred ground, and to evoke the daily patterns of religious life and observance within the city of Rome and its environs. "An Introduction to Roman Religion" includes a wealth of quotations from primary sources, a chronology of religious and historical events from 750 BC to AD 494, a full glossary and an annotated guide to further reading. -- From publisher's description.

Roman Religion

Author : Valerie M. Warrior
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316264920
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Roman Religion written by Valerie M. Warrior and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining sites that are familiar to many modern tourists, Valerie Warrior avoids imposing a modern perspective on the topic by using the testimony of the ancient Romans to describe traditional Roman religion. The ancient testimony recreates the social and historical contexts in which Roman religion was practised. It shows, for example, how, when confronted with a foreign cult, official traditional religion accepted the new cult with suitable modifications. Basic difficulties, however, arose with regard to the monotheism of the Jews and Christianity. Carefully integrated with the text are visual representations of divination, prayer, and sacrifice as depicted on monuments, coins, and inscriptions from public buildings and homes throughout the Roman world. Also included are epitaphs and humble votive offerings that illustrate the piety of individuals, and that reveal the prevalence of magic and the occult in the spiritual lives of the ancient Romans.

Roman Religion

Author : Clifford Ando
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Roman Religion written by Clifford Ando and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historiography and method -- Religious institutions and religious authority -- Ritual and myth -- Theology -- Roman and alien -- Continuity and change from Republic to Empire.

The Gods, the State, and the Individual

Author : John Scheid
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812247663
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Gods, the State, and the Individual written by John Scheid and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine using technical terms widely employed to describe relations with other humans. Indeed, there was not even a word in classical Latin that corresponds to the English word religion. In The Gods, the State, and the Individual, John Scheid confronts these and other challenges directly. If Roman religious practice has long been dismissed as a cynical or naïve system of borrowed structures unmarked by any true piety, Scheid contends that this is the result of a misplaced expectation that the basis of religion lies in an individual's personal and revelatory relationship with his or her god. He argues that when viewed in the light of secular history as opposed to Christian theology, Roman religion emerges as a legitimate phenomenon in which rituals, both public and private, enforced a sense of communal, civic, and state identity. Since the 1970s, Scheid has been one of the most influential figures reshaping scholarly understanding of ancient Roman religion. The Gods, the State, and the Individual presents a translation of Scheid's work that chronicles the development of his field-changing scholarship.

Continuity and Change in Roman Religion

Author : John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Continuity and Change in Roman Religion written by John Hugo Wolfgang Gideon Liebeschuetz and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1979 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1979 and out of print since 1986, surveys religious attitudes reflected in Latin literature from the late Republic to the time of Constantine. Liebeschuetz focuses on the development of the Roman public religion, particularly the relation between Roman religion and morality.

Religions of Rome: Volume 2, A Sourcebook

Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521456463
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Religions of Rome: Volume 2, A Sourcebook written by Mary Beard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two reveals the extraordinary diversity of ancient Roman religion. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years later. Each document is given a full introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and acts as a starting point for further discussion. Through paintings, sculptures, coins and inscriptions, as well as literary texts in translation, the book explores the major themes and problems of Roman religion, such as sacrifice, the religious calendar, divination, ritual, and priesthood. Starting from the archaeological traces of the earliest cults of the city, it finishes with a series of texts in which Roman authors themselves reflect on the nature of their own religion, its history, even its funny side. Judaism and Christianity are given full coverage, as important elements in the religious world of the Roman empire.

Religion in the Roman Empire

Author : James B. Rives
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 1405106565
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Religion in the Roman Empire written by James B. Rives and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2006-06-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an engaging, systematic introduction to religion in the Roman empire. Covers both mainstream Graeco-Roman religion and regional religious traditions, from Egypt to Western Europe Examines the shared assumptions and underlying dynamics that characterized religious life as a whole Draws on a wide range of primary material, both textual and visual, from literary works, inscriptions and monuments Offers insight into the religious world in which contemporary rabbinic Judaism and Christianity both had their origin

The Religions of the Roman Empire

Author : John Ferguson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801493119
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book The Religions of the Roman Empire written by John Ferguson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Companion to Roman Religion

Author : Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444339249
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Roman Religion written by Jörg Rüpke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the sprawling landscape of the Roman religion. An innovative introduction to Roman religion Approaches the field with a focus on the human-figures instead of the gods Analyzes religious changes from the eighth century BC to the fourth century AD Offers the first history of religious motifs on coins and household/everyday utensils Presents Roman religion within its cultural, social, and historical contexts

Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces

Author : Csaba Szabó
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789257840
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces by : Csaba Szabó

Download or read book Roman Religion in the Danubian Provinces written by Csaba Szabó and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where the dominant, pre-Roman cultures (Celtic, Illyrian, Hellenistic, Thracian) are interconnected within the new administrative, economic and cultural units of Roman cities, provinces and extra-provincial networks. This book presents the material evidence of Roman religion in the Danubian provinces through a new, paradigmatic methodology, focusing not only on the traditional urban and provincial units of the Roman Empire, but on a new space taxonomy. Roman religion and its sacralized places are presented in macro-, meso- and micro-spaces of a dynamic empire, which shaped Roman religion in the 1st-3rd centuries AD and created a large number of religious glocalizations and appropriations in Raetia, Noricum, Pannonia Superior, Pannonia Inferior, Moesia Superior, Moesia Inferior and Dacia. Combining the methodological approaches of Roman provincial archaeology and religious studies, this work intends to provoke a dialogue between disciplines rarely used together in central-east Europe and beyond. The material evidence of Roman religion is interpreted here as a dynamic agent in religious communication, shaped by macro-spaces, extra-provincial routes, commercial networks, but also by the formation and constant dynamics of small group religions interconnected within this region through human and material mobilities. The book will also present for the first time a comprehensive list of sacralized spaces and divinities in the Danubian provinces.

Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy

Author : Emma-Jayne Graham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351982443
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy written by Emma-Jayne Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and communal experiences of the religious agency generated when ritualised activities caused human and more-than-human things to become bundled together into relational assemblages. Drawing upon broadly posthumanist and new materialist theories concerning the thingliness of things, it sets out to re-evaluate the role of the material world within Roman religion and to offer new perspectives on the formation of multi-scalar forms of ancient religious knowledge. It explores what happens when a materially informed approach is systematically applied to the investigation of typical questions about Roman religion such as: What did Romans understand ‘religion’ to mean? What did religious experiences allow people to understand about the material world and their own place within it? How were experiences of ritual connected with shared beliefs or concepts about the relationship between the mortal and divine worlds? How was divinity constructed and perceived? To answer these questions, it gathers and evaluates archaeological evidence associated with a series of case studies. Each of these focuses on a key component of the ritualised assemblages shown to have produced Roman religious agency – place, objects, bodies, and divinity – and centres on an examination of experiences of lived religion as it related to the contexts of monumentalised sanctuaries, cult instruments used in public sacrifice, anatomical votive offerings, cult images and the qualities of divinity, and magic as a situationally specific form of religious knowledge. By breaking down and then reconstructing the ritualised assemblages that generated and sustained Roman religion, this book makes the case for adopting a material approach to the study of ancient lived religion.

Law and Religion in the Roman Republic

Author : Olga Tellegen-Couperus
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004218505
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Law and Religion in the Roman Republic written by Olga Tellegen-Couperus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic sources, this book reveals how, in the Roman Republic, law and religion interacted to serve the same purpose, the continued growth and consolidation of Rome’s power.

The Gods of Ancient Rome

Author : Robert Turcan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136058508
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Gods of Ancient Rome written by Robert Turcan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. This is a vivid account of what their gods meant to the Romans from archaic times to late antiquity, and an exploration of the rites and rituals connected to them. After an extensive introduction into the nature of classical religion, the book is divided into three pain main parts: religions of the family and land; religions of the city; and religions of the empire. The book ends with the rise and impact Christianity. Using archaeological and epigraphic evidence, and drawling extensively on a wide range of relevant literary material, this book is ideally suited for undergraduate courses in the history of Rome and its religions. Its urbane style and lightly worn scholarship will broaden its appeal to the large number of non-academic readers with a serious interest in the classical world.

Dictionary of Roman Religion

Author : Lesley Adkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780195142334
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Roman Religion written by Lesley Adkins and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique reference work, Roman religion is finally accorded its due and set in its full context. Dictionary of Roman Religion contains more than 1,400 entries. Among the topics covered are deities and spirits, festivals, sacrifices, temples, altars, cult objects, burial rites, writers on religion, and historical religious events. Different religions within the Roman world, such as Mithraism, Druidism, Judaism, and Christianity, are also discussed. Illustrated, cross-referenced, and featuring a bibliography and glossary, this dictionary is both comprehensive and essential for students and researchers. The essays and suggestions for further reading also make this appealing to all who are interested in ancient religions, myths, and legends.

Religion in Republican Rome

Author : Jorg Rupke
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812206576
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Religion in Republican Rome written by Jorg Rupke and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-05-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman religion as we know it is largely the product of the middle and late republic, the period falling roughly between the victory of Rome over its Latin allies in 338 B.C.E. and the attempt of the Italian peoples in the Social War to stop Roman domination, resulting in the victory of Rome over all of Italy in 89 B.C.E. This period witnessed the expansion and elaboration of large public rituals such as the games and the triumph as well as significant changes to Roman intellectual life, including the emergence of new media like the written calendar and new genres such as law, antiquarian writing, and philosophical discourse. In Religion in Republican Rome Jörg Rüpke argues that religious change in the period is best understood as a process of rationalization: rules and principles were abstracted from practice, then made the object of a specialized discourse with its own rules of argument and institutional loci. Thus codified and elaborated, these then guided future conduct and elaboration. Rüpke concentrates on figures both famous and less well known, including Gnaeus Flavius, Ennius, Accius, Varro, Cicero, and Julius Caesar. He contextualizes the development of rational argument about religion and antiquarian systematization of religious practices with respect to two complex processes: Roman expansion in its manifold dimensions on the one hand and cultural exchange between Greece and Rome on the other.

Roman Religion

Author : J. A. North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199224333
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Roman Religion written by J. A. North and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of the religious history of Rome starting from its mythical origins.

Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age

Author : Antonia Tripolitis
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802849137
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (491 download)

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Book Synopsis Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age by : Antonia Tripolitis

Download or read book Religions of the Hellenistic-Roman Age written by Antonia Tripolitis and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful read traces the development of the principal Western religions and their philosophical counterparts from the beginnings of Alexander the Great's empire in 331 B.C.E. to the emergence of the Christian world in the fourth century C.E.