A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

All this, however, does not explain the absence of the typical dance of the Salii. Images of processions, independent of the med ...

are probably part of a larger frieze depicting a procession. Because of the ornament completing this frieze block, one can imagi ...

demonstrate that the double flute played by the tibicenmust have been the most important instrument of Roman cult. They also sho ...

great antiquarian scholarship, offered new explanations for old rituals or even cre- ated a specific meaning for a ritual with t ...

characterizes a ritual more clearly. According to literary sources, a triumphal pro- cession can be subdivided into three greate ...

drawing the audience to the following sacrificial animals and evoking a more appro- priate, sacral, and solemn behavior. The mus ...

of the ritual are suitable for a visual representation of a ritual or for a written description. FURTHER READING A recent treatm ...

CHAPTER NINETEEN Sacrifices for Gods and Ancestors John Scheid Sacrifice was at the heart of most acts of cult worship. Dependin ...

a kind of hood or veil covering the head (cinctus Gabinus; see Dubourdieu 1986). In the “Greek” ritual, the sacrificer was bare- ...

we see that the divinity concerned with the sacrifice is also included. The rite was doubtless addressed to a number of interest ...

of the victim. In the “Greek” variant of the ritual, the sacrificer sprinkled water over the victim, cut a hair from its brow, a ...

widespread, and from around the first centuryad appeared in a more simplified form as the permanent display of padded couches (p ...

(publice) in particular cult spaces. And so, at the time of the Epulum Iouis, the great sacrifice to the Capitoline triad on Sep ...

We know that the cult worship of Syrian gods involved sacrifices, but we do not know how these were performed. In light of certa ...

and children, in order to “supplicate” the gods. They threw themselves on their knees before them in order to beseech or thank t ...

yet entirely left his earthly community, and so could receive a share of a sacrificial victim with Ceres, who was not a goddess ...

PART IV Actors and Actions ...

CHAPTER TWENTY Religious Actors in Daily Life: Practices and Related Beliefs Nicole Belayche Religious practices offer us an ech ...

only a libation to Jupiter, instead of vowing a temple to him as usual (Livy 10.42.7). In daily life, religious acts should not ...

and authority (auctoritate) of the aristocracy helps to hold the state together.” When Cicero, speaking as a pater familias, a l ...