(1993) and by Zanker and Ewald (2004). Muth (1998) offers a glimpse into private mytho-
logical mosaics.
Recent monographic accounts of Roman religion are given by Beard et al. (1998) and Rüpke
(2001 [2007]); shorter introductions are offered by North (2000) and Scheid (2003). The
manual of Wissowa (1912, repr. 1971) remains indispensable (for a recent assessment of Wissowa’s
achievements see Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 5, 2003). For monographic accounts of the
religious history of individual provinces see now the series Religion der römischen Provinzen
(Belayche 2001; Spickermann 2003, 2007; Kunz 2006; further volumes are forthcoming).
The best guide to recent research is given by survey articles every three to four years
organized by epochs and provinces (Belayche et al. 2000, 2003, forthcoming).
For the concept of religion see J. Z. Smith (1978, 1990, 1998) and Gladigow (2005).Many chapters of this book offer frequent references, usually to the most important type of
“reading,” the reading of the ancient evidence. This is mostly available in annotated and trans-
lated form, as far as standard literary texts are concerned; often conveniently put together into
multi-volume corpora, as far as inscriptions are concerned; often widely scattered, analyzed
without image or photographically represented without analysis, as far as archaeological evid-
ence is concerned. Here, the attempt is made to provide the interested reader with direct
references, even if these refer to rather specialist publications.
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