A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

circles is clear from the disagreements cited by Porphyry over the meaning of animals represented in the mysteries (De abstinent ...

to found his mithraeum– a small affair in a private house – by contact with the troops of L. Verus in the periodad 162– 6. It se ...

carmen sacrum, or perhaps rather from more than one, presumably composed by the Father, in the Severan period. The fragmentary l ...

effect. At the same time, it offers a powerful model for social interaction through- out the society. We can trace the descent o ...

de terreur, the spectacle of public execution, and in the history of gladiatorial com- bat. The Roman principate strikingly conf ...

material as possible. Better introductions are provided by Clauss (2000), which has an addi- tional recent bibliography in Engli ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT The Romanness of Roman Christianity Stefan Heid Growth and External Perception When Paul was planning his j ...

participation in such significant public events as spectacula,certamina,pompae, and epula publica(Min. Fel. 12.5). Christians ma ...

follow a route of secrecy and explained the sequence of their meetings to a willing public in an easily intelligible manner (Ius ...

within the family called for religious rites, these practices led to the development of a Christian type of funeral and a corres ...

146). Such a practice is, however, impossible to imagine in terms of organization before Constantine and cannot be proven. A sta ...

describes his sacrifice in the arena, in which the Christians too should participate in order to encourage the lions, as a Eucha ...

the depositio martyrum (list of martyrs) – likewise points in this direction: the martyrs were separated from the family (gens) ...

martyria; since they were, however, located in cemeteries, space for burials was created at the same time. The cult of the marty ...

acclamations, and praise of God were being sung, in honor of the Christian heroes (Or. ad sanct.12.4 –5). Constantine does in fa ...

martyrs, he once again defeated the persecutor Maxentius. The festive cult of the martyrs served as a foil to his imperial messa ...

martyrs of Rome were the city’s glory (Const. Imp. Or. ad sanct.22.2). The new basilical monuments of victory functioned even mo ...

the spectators at the games, which had been held for Maxentius on the day before the decisive battle, had chanted “Constantinus ...

liberalitas(distribution of money to the Roman public). The seven silver altars together with the numerous vessels of the Latera ...

Constantine (Deichmann 1967: nos. 61, 212; cf. Const. Imp. Or. ad sanct.1.1, 11.4 – 6). It goes without saying that members of t ...