A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

From this point on, Roman mythology and religious practice began to be con- sidered as a historical resource. Let us take an exa ...

burial is the commonest and most significant aspect of the archaeological record for Latium, the area surrounding Rome, between ...

Augustan period, and the multiplication of those distortions over time, are hard to push aside, yet each was a coherent and in i ...

material, or of ideas, originating in the east and carried to Italy as part of the move- ment of peoples which was stimulated by ...

religious connection is preserved through a Christian church to the present day. Another excellent example is at Satricum, where ...

was now the center of such communal activity (Livy 1.45; Beard et al. 1998: 2.15 –17). A similar action may be represented by th ...

and his traditional sixth-century dates cohere roughly with the sixth-century finds at S. Omobono. Much of this depends on somew ...

The Roman Calendar and Roman Priesthood We have already stated that no literary accounts have survived from this early period, b ...

of buildings in the Forum including the Regia (which contains two small shrines to Ops and Consiva, very old agricultural deitie ...

identified a primitive core in a form of animism, itself based heavily on Varro’s unhelp- ful claim that early Roman religion wa ...

regal period and were productive of the remarkable edifice which is the republic and its historiography. Here again, the develop ...

CHAPTER FOUR Pre-Roman Italy, Before and Under the Romans Olivier de Cazanove Sentinum and the Impossible Religious Unity of the ...

as a representative symbol for the allies as a whole, although attempts have been made to see the hind as a symbol of Celtism in ...

Pre-Roman Italy, Before and Under the Romans 45 foreigners of particular holy places is epigraphically documented. However, the ...

The Italic Religious Cultures: Similarities and Differences In Italic religious cultures we can observe exclusion of the other, ...

or consistent (all the possible solutions, or almost all, have been considered: ethnic awakening without displacement, movements ...

48 Olivier de Cazanove Na(ha)r Tib eris II APULIA III LUCANIA ET BRUTTII I LATIUM ET CAMPANIA VII ETRURIA V PICENUM VI UMBRIA VI ...

The Great Public Rituals: Possibility and Limits of Comparison In order to clear up Roman realities, or some other Italic ritual ...

indeed three gods inside every gate, who correspond symmetrically to the Grabovius gods. These three gods belong to the circle o ...

of the divinity is to some extent extracted from it here (Scheid 1999a). It will be noted that in Gubbio, Torsa, “the one-who-te ...