A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

216 Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser A B b, b′ C Temple of Apollo Dining room Private library Public library D, D′ E F R, r Peristyle Terr ...

mother Latona; originally separate works of art by three different classical Greek artists, the statues were now combined into o ...

censored, they were placed in two golden drawers in the base of the statue of Apollo (Suet. Augustus31.1). The utilization of a ...

of water in the temple precinct; it had to be fetched from the running well built into the “Arch of Caligula” (6) at the nearby ...

space, Tullius’ temple donation turns out to be quite ambitious. With all available means it tries to attract the attention of p ...

now became a storage room. The stipulation found in legal documents that there be no common wall between sacred and private buil ...

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Complex Rituals: Games and Processions in Republican Rome Frank Bernstein Within the discipline of comparative r ...

Complex Rituals 223 dramas on the stage. Cicero confirms this differentiation of public games into ludi circensesand ludi scaeni ...

before the beginning of the games proper. With these circensian forms of ritual estab- lished in Rome in the archaic period by t ...

expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, the impensae ludorum publicorum, that had been previously imposed on the c ...

preparation of war. However, not only did the extraordinary games for the sake of the state experience a remarkable upswing, but ...

of the ludi Florales(Ov. Fast.5.295–330; Livy 41.21.10 –11, 42.2.6 –7), then it must be clear that the ludi publiciindeed fulfil ...

the first time (Cassiodorus, Chroniconp. 128 Mommsen [mistakenly for the year 239 bc]). With this cultural and political decisio ...

Something specifically Roman was linked with the Greek elements in all these pro- cession participants’ presentation. The appear ...

permanent public games cannot be described in detail on account of the lack of evidence. However, we do know from the epigraphic ...

religious-cultic dimension of the ludi publiciwas by no means abandoned. And yet the amply familiar process of disintegration of ...

the great impression which the former had made with this building complex, and, in particular, with the magnificent dedication g ...

they inculcated the nobility’s claim to leadership, and nonetheless strengthened the sense of solidarity between the community’s ...

of games, as well as their subjects’ incessant demand for panem et circenses, more comprehensible. But the ludi publiciwere alre ...

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Performing the Sacred: Prayers and Hymns Frances Hickson Hahn Religious rituals were a favorite subject for Ro ...