A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

on formulaic language, handed down and preserved by religious specialists in books, which unfortunately no longer survive. So im ...

up with thanksgiving. To say “I give thanks that” is to thank and praise. The utter- ance in and of itself has force or power. S ...

in the central living area of a house (atrium) and often resembled a miniature temple with pediment and statuettes (see chapter ...

of the Roman people more prosperous and extensive” (Val. Max. 4.1.10). Taking the auspices prior to any public business involved ...

well as of gods. These petitions are represented by numerous prayers for cures, pro- tection, blessing, and aid found in texts o ...

Like Cato’s prayer for purification and protection of a farm, this prayer opens with an invocation, here to the chief god of the ...

only civil, legal, and military, but also private, primarily as a means of affirming the truthfulness of a statement. Thus the p ...

is gratia or grates, the origin of our modern word “gratitude.” Etymologists (Leumann 1937: 35; Moussy 1966: 49–56) associate th ...

While all of the prayers previously considered were spoken by an individual Roman, sometimes on his own behalf, sometimes on beh ...

Phoebus Apollo, Diana, queen of the forests, O deities the glories of the sky, Most worthy to be worshiped, grant, we pray, Our ...

The enemy has been conquered, our citizens are safe, the state quiet, peace accom- plished, the war over, the state’s business w ...

the current state of blessing. In its ritual context, the hymn reflected the present period of civil harmony, but also served to ...

of both upper and lower classes. While spontaneous prayer at public temples pro- vided an outlet for fear and joy, the instituti ...

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Music and Dance: Forms of Representation in Pictorial and Written Sources Friederike Fless and Katja Moede Musi ...

pictorial evidence, it is possible to describe for which sequences of rituals musicians and dancers are mentioned. The analysis ...

Music and Dance 251 Figure 18.2 Marble relief of a triumphal arch after the triumph of Marcus Aurelius in ad176. Rome, attic of ...

This chapter will be limited to the musicians and dancers directly involved in pro- cessions and rituals and reflected in monume ...

successively expanded and modified their consecratory function according to the polit- ical climate, in the time between the fir ...

the sources that depict music and dance either in literature or in fine arts. Therefore there are quite a few contradictions bet ...

Why is a similar imagery absent from depictions of armed dancers in historical reliefs? The discrepancies between written functi ...