A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

Indeed, Roman legend and political practice together suggest that the residence of the Penates in Lavinium was both odd and well ...

Since our interest here is in the movement of gods and cults, and not in imperi- alism or foreign gods or a specific rite, we ca ...

space, a border marked by the pomerium. The information gleaned by the taking of auspices was vitiated if the magistrate crossed ...

bodies or, for that matter, individuals; second, the problem of historical change in the conceptualizations that restrained or p ...

the periodic swearings of loyalty required by the central government. But the con- cerns of those actions were decidedly locativ ...

CHAPTER THIRTY Religion in the Roman East Ted Kaizer Religion in the eastern provinces of the Roman world was not, it seems, wha ...

Religion in the Roman East 447 “Roman” Religion in the East That is not to say that “Roman” religion as such was completely abse ...

structure to which they were now accountable. Asia Minor was filled with dedica- tions to the ruling emperor, and even as far ea ...

indigenous deities. They either continued to sacrifice to the ancestral gods of their hometown, as for example many Palmyrene so ...

these deities, who both had a huge following in the Roman empire as a whole, above all among soldiers, clearly calls to mind the ...

empire was therefore in a true sense “Greek.” With only few exceptions, namely the above-mentioned colonies and the military sph ...

the methods of religious observance known from other cities in the Greco-Roman world. Also at Palmyra, the worshiper could reach ...

evidence from Hierapolis outside the text? This is of course a much-debated ques- tion. Since DDSwas, first and foremost, rigoro ...

interpreted Roman rule as an agent of the divine sphere, and at the beginning of his career as an essayist he even wrote a piece ...

Hellenistic age, which had continued their role in the city, but as a sort of reinven- tion of tradition instead: as a deliberat ...

Greco-Roman religious architecture was absent in places such as Dura-Europos. The fact that here temples often grew out of house ...

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Roman Religion in the Vision of Tertullian Cecilia Ames The western Christian literary tradition that begins ...

north of Africa, the cradle of a discursive construction that begins with Tertullian, is apprehended and reproduced by Minucius ...

African Christian writers dispute with Roman authors by references to repres- entations, systematization, and arguments on Roman ...

thorough education which helped him master Latin and Greek to perfection, as well as literary and philosophical tradition. He wa ...