A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

Like the god Janus, it looked in two directions at once: back to existing traditions and forward to the future; we can see in re ...

Augustan reign is precisely the opening up of formerly restricted opportunities to a much larger segment of the populace (with t ...

would have been most obvious to Augustus contemporaries, the rebuilding of Rome. It is a paradigm of Augustan-style restoration, ...

and on the Parthians in the east for the defeat they had inflicted on Rome’s armies; Augustus celebrated a bloodless “victory” o ...

himself put it succinctly, was “a peace born of victories” (Res Gestae13). In particu- lar, we should not overemphasize, let alo ...

unproblematically, took place in 249 bc, at the height of the First Punic War, and in 146 bc, coinciding with the final stage of ...

require the direct involvement of the pontifex maximus. The ludi saeculares, for instance, could be carried out without any role ...

example of the Augustan revolution that was based on power resulting from the control of knowledge. Each individual vicuswas led ...

competition between the viciin Rome; this far more broadly based competition replaced the temple-building competition of the Rom ...

like the deity of what Robert Bellah (1967) has called “the American civil religion,” a concept that goes back to Jefferson, Was ...

many outlets, variations, and autonomous responses that nonetheless had a central focus instead of being centrifugal. FURTHER RE ...

CHAPTER SEVEN Religions and the Integration of Cities in the Empire in the Second Century AD: The Creation of a Common Religious ...

The first thing we learn from this valuable text, therefore, is that, in this period, the large number of provincial and Roman d ...

historical, political, and cultural contexts which varied extremely from one end of the empire to the other. The cities of Greec ...

of Isis, seems to echo that of these gods in numerous other imperial provinces. It must also not be forgotten that, in Egypt as ...

the monument by local benefactors. These urban innovations paralleled an archi- tectural reconsideration of the rural sanctuarie ...

There was no fusion or syncretism or simple dressing up – these gods changed both names and identities. Of course, many diviniti ...

else, but a city, like any other autonomous community, by definition determined its own cults and religious calendar. This was p ...

and Severans. It is in the very specific context of municipalization that the cult of Iuppiter Optimus Maximus spread through th ...

I wander, never ceasing to pass through the whole world, but I am first and foremost a faithful worshiper of Onuava. I am at the ...