1st Edition
Religion in Archaic and Republican Rome and Italy Evidence and Experience
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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As Rome extended its influence throughout Italy, gradually incorporating its various peoples in a process of Romanization and conquest, its religion was extensively influenced by the cults of religious practices of its new subjects and citizens. It was a period of intense religious ferment and creativity. Roman religion, controlled and determined by religious and political functionaries who... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction, Edward Bispham; Chapter 2 An Anthropologist’s View of Ritual, Nicole Bourque; Chapter 3 Tuscan Order: The Development of Etruscan Sanctuary Architecture, Vedia Izzet; Chapter 4 Sacred Rubbish, Fay Glinister; Chapter 5 Some Thoughts on the ‘Religious Romanisation’ of Italy Before the Social War, Olivier de Cazanove, Edward Bispham; Chapter 6 From Concordia to the Quirinal:, Emmanuele Curti; Chapter 7 Prophet and Text in the Third Century BC, J. A. North; Chapter 8 The Games of Hercules, T. P. Wiseman; Chapter 9 Looking Beyond the Civic Compromise:, Andreas Bendlin; Chapter 10 Worshipping Mater Matuta:, Christopher Smith;
Biography
Bispham, Edward; Smith, Christopher
