The Roman Empire. Economy, Society and Culture
182 THE ROMAN EMPIRE organizations as seedbeds of undercover political activity. Hence, an imperial rule prohibited meetings of ...
SOCIAL RELATIONS 183 the East had magistrates, irenarchs, charged with the maintenance of order, but they had only small forces ...
184 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Women as patrons could pose interesting challenges for traditional male views of the gender hierarchy: in a ...
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The offi cial Roman religion was a cluster of beliefs expressed in an elaborate system of institutions and rituals. The Romans a ...
188 THE ROMAN EMPIRE brotherhoods and ritual practices, moral reform and a concentration of power in the emperor’s hands. These ...
RELIGION 189 the sensitivities of the Roman upper classes, and discreetly asserting the inseparability of emperor and state. Cer ...
190 THE ROMAN EMPIRE the revolt of AD 21 might have included former high priests of Rome and Augustus at Condate (Tacitus, Ann. ...
RELIGION 191 status and future prospects. Jupiter’s connection with the emperor and the imperial cult was particularly close. A ...
192 THE ROMAN EMPIRE where the Roman–native religious and cultural confrontation was played out. The gods that disappeared in Ro ...
RELIGION 193 of toleration, enunciated by Julius Caesar, confi rmed by Augustus and carried on by Claudius, was not a response t ...
194 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Magna Mater, at the time of the invasion of Italy by Hannibal. This was a Phrygian goddess whose worship wa ...
RELIGION 195 composition and values as it was possible to get after a decade and a half of destructive civil wars. The heritage ...
196 THE ROMAN EMPIRE monarchy. Do not, therefore, permit anybody to be an atheist or a sorcerer. (52.36) Whatever was in Cassius ...
RELIGION 197 citizens, as soldiers and as members of the governing class itself, was not matched by a broadening of the base of ...
198 THE ROMAN EMPIRE was the traditional view that the welfare of the state and its subjects depended upon divine favour, and th ...
RELIGION 199 But Christianity was already a success, and we should try to understand why. Explanations have been offered in term ...
200 THE ROMAN EMPIRE aux religions orientales dans l’Empire romain (Leyden, 1962–1986), which was explicitly devoted to the re- ...
RELIGION 201 cultural terms as an element of identity formation; the ‘imperial cult’ as just one aspect of a non- fi nite empire ...
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