A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

Approaching Roman Religion 11 A The methods of classical studies 1 All areas of classical studies have traditionally originated ...

12 C. Robert Phillips, III “primitive” while cults of the higher ancient socio-economic orders became normative. 3 Training in c ...

Finally, there exists an issue of contemporary influence, the Rezeptionsgeschichteof scholarship on Roman religion in other area ...

14 C. Robert Phillips, III treatises on lexicography, topography, and politics as well as Roman religion. Fourth, the range of a ...

Approaching Roman Religion 15 The problem lies with determining details in the obvious absence of the books themselves and the a ...

16 C. Robert Phillips, III acquaintance with those handbooks’ sources. To return and recapitulate, Labeo points to substantial s ...

Matters soon change. Symmachus (c.ad 340 – 402) had no epigonoi and his socio-economic-theological class was vanishing. Thus, in ...

Early Modern Europe through the Eighteenth Century The detailed study of Roman religion reappeared, but in its earlier patristic ...

further evidence that all religion was depraved. For others, the “primitive” obser- vances were signs of primeval virtue, from w ...

constitutes no coincidence, as it sought an ecumenical solution in contrast to J. A. Hartung’s Die Religion der Römer(1836), but ...

Tyrolean poetry to demonstrate that the Romans conceived ghosts as inhabiting the floor, on the basis of an enigmatic passage of ...

relentless flow of Einzelerklärungen, “explanations of individual problems” (Grafton 1983). Larger perspectives were either neo- ...

did so only infrequently; and despite Weinstock’s long tenure at Oxford and regu- lar lectures on Roman religion, the questions ...

The Twentieth Century until 1960 By the 1920s the previous fascination with evolution as a means of explaining reli- gions had l ...

continued the positivism but with less of Mommsen’s influence (Z. Stewart 1972). Likewise again, Robert Palmer made the very bes ...

qualities, produced distorted views. But it can be no help when literary specialists continue almost perversely to ignore any an ...

generous entries include masterly articles on Frazer, Harrison, Müller, Norden, Erwin Rohde, and Usener. Many of the themes and ...

On the social sciences in the UK, see Stocking (1987, 1996a); for Darwinism, see Sharpe (1975: 47–71) and Burrow (1966). For Bri ...

PART I Changes ...

CHAPTER THREE The Religion of Archaic Rome Christopher Smith The obscurity surrounding early Roman religion is profound. Writing ...