A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

Such Christian borrowings from the heroes’ cult cannot, however, be proven. The basilicas in honor of the martyrs were without d ...

The circus as location of victorious athletes and the basilicas as celebratory spaces for the martyr-athletes led to the idea of ...

in Rome when he speaks of services in honor of the martyrs. The apostles (the “wise men”) provide a lasting example for those wh ...

In the martyrs’ liturgy of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian period, Christ definitely still remains at the center of att ...

spectacle as an overarching theme for sermons and the (biblical or legendary) report of the passion, in order to redirect the po ...

Other Aspects of Romanization My argument has focused on the veneration of the martyrs and the lasting influence which Constanti ...

meter” in praise of the martyrs in the catacombs, which Dionysius Filocalus, the editor of the calendar of 354, had chiseled in ...

PART VI Roman Religion Outside and Seen from Outside ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Exporting Roman Religion Clifford Ando This chapter examines the spread of specifically Roman cults to the p ...

and authority and, second, Roman historical accounts of their own attempts to move cults. Such actions are often described, as w ...

On this understanding, the Roman empire presents something of a paradox. For the empire did witness an extraordinary efflorescen ...

by Gellius’ final lament, that the relevant bodies of law had by his day become “obscure and largely forgotten.” The ignorance G ...

of the city – its pomerium– using the “traditional” Roman method of delineation by plow, a method some Romans understood themsel ...

Dispatched to settle new colonists in an already established but fragile colony, Luscus will not have needed to draw the pomeriu ...

That said, we do possess extensive clauses of the lex coloniae Iuliae Genetivae– the colonial charter of ancient Urso, near mode ...

Latin, Greek, and Semitic names (CIL3.6680 =ILS3490). As its most recent read- ing points out, the dedication confronts us with ...

In point of fact, much surviving evidence, early and late, points to considerable interest in local cults on the part of Romans ...

they worked to dismantle the civic framework that almost undoubtedly had made that cult meaningful. The cults of Fregellae thus ...

decision-making had become by the Flavian era highly restricted (Humbert 1978). What of religion in this scheme? Unfortunately, ...

Urso, will have granted the magistrates the power to fix a religious calendar – to decide, in other words, what gods would be ho ...