A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

of this deeply engaged poetry does not straightforwardly derive from the directness of its ties to other forms of religious disc ...

emphatically the inferior one, while the human character Cato has the “right” view. The gods back Caesar because he is going to ...

empire, we also find a new historiography emerging, composed by Roman senators who were attempting to explain and justify the ri ...

in which the manifestations of religion are an element of narrative art along with all the others. Religious events in Roman his ...

Religion in Livy: Creating and Preserving a System With Livy’s history of Rome from Aeneas to his own day, we finally meet a sub ...

of ancient historiography, where larger thematic meaning is conveyed through narrative as in a novel, rather than through explic ...

material in Books 31– 40 would have been at odds with the narrative effect he wished to achieve in that particular section of hi ...

rhythm against which the new, discordant realities play out their disturbing effects (on the general technique see Ginsburg 1981 ...

part of the larger work. The scene has something to say about ritual, and about the society which generates the ritual, but read ...

CHAPTER ELEVEN Religion and Roman Coins Jonathan Williams Ever since its first appearance in western Asia Minor in the seventh c ...

grave), Roman coinage down to the late second century bcdid not differ funda- mentally from its Greek civic counterparts with re ...

silver coins in the late second century bcmade at Tarsus illustrated the altar of a local deity, Sandan, in a new monumental sty ...

the base, above which sprout corn-ears. Two figures stand one on either side and the column is surmounted by a third who holds a ...

influential college of augurs, as in the case of M. Minucius Faesus on the coin dis- cussed above, or that of the young Octavian ...

Despite the fact that architectural designs are among the most illustrated and dis- cussed for the information they provide on t ...

Taking their cue from the Romans, many other communities of the Roman empire, both cities and neighboring kingdoms, adopted imag ...

A further aspect to the spread of temple types on early provincial coins, as Burnett points out, was that many of the temples re ...

The high point of this style is, not unexpectedly, reached in the Augustan period, when these symbols combine with those specifi ...

of personal titulature that accompany the images – AVGVR, PONT, and so on anticipating later imperial styles where the title of ...

Roman sacrificial implements and priestly symbols continue to make occasional but regular appearances on Roman imperial coins do ...