A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

1998). Besides the whole range of actors, the arrangement of the ceremonies itself contributed to an expression of the people’s ...

invoked, ritual procedures were planned in order to make those powers propitious and have them as allies. Care for the gods, the ...

te appellari uolueris(Servius, Aeneis2.351). Such caution was the rule within every context, either votive or magical. A lead ta ...

were first rooted in justice, and not in affective links with the gods, even if such a contractual approach did not prevent feel ...

annual vows are recorded on calendars like that of the XX cohorsin Dura-Europos (Beard et al. 1998: 2.71) and in the Arval Breth ...

the practice of writing down vows on columns and walls at the Clitumna Springs (Pliny, Epist.8.8.7). Not all dedications that we ...

Gods” or “the Roman people’s gods” (tous dèmou Rhômaiôn theous) (TAM5.1.423). All the gods could be seen as protectors, even YHW ...

signs received during the vow could provide the faithful with their first information about its reception. The litatioperformed ...

Searching for More Insurance for the Future through Preliminary Expiations and Curses The votive relationship already encompasse ...

inuolauerit(Cunliffe 1988: no. 10.5–7). The deity invoked for justice was to get part of – or the whole of – what had been stole ...

“We have bound fast (uinximus) hostile tongues and unfriendly mouths” (Ov. Fast. 2.569– 82, quotation 581). However “magical” it ...

The drawing up of all written charms follows the same model. They call for one (or more) power(s) for winning superiority or vic ...

290 Nicole Belayche Figure 20.2 Charm on a tablet found in Berytus, Syria-Phoenicia (SEG40, 1990, 1396; Mouterde 1930: pl. III, ...

ever-presence and almightiness within the world. Consequently, divine figures could serve as extra-world referees taking the par ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Republican Nobiles: Controlling the Res Publica Veit Rosenberger The senate was the dominant political power ...

Republican Nobiles 293 category. Unsolicited signs were the auspicia oblativa, signs occurring without being asked for and usual ...

compiled a list of prodigies based on Livy. Cicero deals with prodigies in his work On Divination(De divinatione). Other authors ...

Prodigies and Communication Of the three priesthoods to propose an expiation rite, the decemviriwere prominent in the period to ...

(b) In a supplication, the entire population went to the open temples and made sacrifices wearing wreaths in their hair and carr ...

Other prodigies from Italian towns were reported: lightning struck the temple of Iuppiter at Minturnae and at Atella the city wa ...