A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

consisted of more than a line of 13 altars, in addition to the neighboring heroonand an archaic building, demolished in the fift ...

of S. Felicità. If this reconstruction of the place of cult is right, it had truly vast pro- portions: 700 meters as the crow fl ...

been a clear turning point: an almost general shipwreck of the pre-Roman cultures, including their cults; abuse of power, even a ...

2005), and even until the time of the empire. In the Sabellic territories, the vitality of the rural districts is characterized ...

Still higher in dignity than the municipiaare the colonies. It is perhaps for this reason (Scheid 1997, forthcoming b) that the ...

FURTHER READING A comprehensive treatment of the cults of pre-Roman Italy is lacking. There are some short syntheses on Italian ...

CHAPTER FIVE Urban Religion in the Middle and Late Republic Eric Orlin Religion and the Res Publica Roman religion in the middle ...

Urban Religion in the Middle and Late Republic 59 the Romans did not believe in their gods or that they did not concern themselv ...

inability to maintain these balances in the late republic led directly to the demise of the republican political system. These s ...

that played the decisive role regarding religious matters that affected the Roman people. A similar procedure may be seen on mat ...

and politics at Rome, the impact of these developments was felt in the religious sphere as well as the political. Perhaps most o ...

virtus(“manliness”) to the Roman people. In order for these temples to become part of the Roman religious system, however, the s ...

dinner parties in honor of the goddess. While welcoming the goddess to Rome and allowing for her traditional forms of worship, t ...

community and reflected the Roman desire to incorporate aspects of foreign cul- tures that they found desirable while still main ...

populus, repealed the provision, while the tribune Labienus sponsored legislation in 63 to restore the selection to the people. ...

Mariana, while the god to whom Pompey built a temple was called Hercules Pompeianus. Nor was this phenomenon limited to just the ...

Romans had already availed themselves of this aspect of the goddess when they invited Venus Erycina to Rome in the midst of the ...

At the battle of Pharsalus, Caesar also vowed a temple, in best republican fashion, to Venus Victrix, almost as if he were summo ...

on augury see Linderski (1986). There is not yet any overall treatment of the Roman reac- tion to foreign cults, though Montanar ...

CHAPTER SIX Continuity and Change: Religion in the Augustan Semi-Century Karl Galinsky It is clear from the preceding chapters t ...