A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

was the case for certain pagans for whom not just the holidays but even the spec- tacles and games in the Circus Maximus in Rome ...

Religious Koine in Private Cult and Ritual: Shared Religious Traditions in Roman Religion in the First Half of the Fourth Centur ...

fifth-century text; Macrobius’ Saturnaliaportrays one of the leading pagans of the late fourth century, Praetextatus, as arguing ...

pagan pontificesoversaw the construction and use of the tombs, even after the advent of Christian emperors; a law of Constantius ...

as late as the 567 ceCanons of the Council of Tours (Council of Tours, Canon 23 [22], ed. C. de Clercq, CCL148A). Of course, Chr ...

occurred (ritual prostitution at two temples of Aphrodite is noted by Eus. V. Const. 3.55). Christians were excused from attendi ...

political aim; by desacralizing the games and ceremonies attendant on the public cults, Constantius was attempting to find a way ...

both encouraged and performed numerous animal sacrifices (Amm. 22.5.2; Lib. Or. 18.126). He also tried to reform pagan organizat ...

from the last years of Constantius’ reign which had supported non-Nicene formu- lations of faith. Under the last years of the re ...

accession day of the emperor (CTh2.18.19). In 395 ce, under the sons of Theo- dosius, Arcadius and Honorius, the pagan holidays ...

Bishops on Religious Koineand Religious Dissent, 350 – 423 CE In the cities of the fourth-century empire, it was the bishop who ...

emperors, not the bishops, had greater success, as the games continued for centuries in Rome and in Constantinople. In terms of ...

A New Religious Koine By the late fourth/early fifth century, the wide spread of Christianity with imperial and episcopal suppor ...

himself to determine which dissenting opinions were or were not acceptable within the Christian community. Religion in the ancie ...

PART II Media ...

CHAPTER TEN The History of Roman Religion in Roman Historiography and Epic Denis Feeney It is now impossible for us to know how ...

information about Roman religion from them without allowing for the particular kinds of narratives that they are. For many years ...

Naevius and Ennius are careful to blend together Greek, Homeric epithets with these special cult titles of the god. In Naevius J ...

with its distinctive religious vision, has its own contribution to make to the way the Romans were reconceiving their role on th ...

mythical Trojan status newly powerful; they are turning themselves into the heirs of Greek culture in more general terms, with a ...