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Roman Religion

Augustine: De civitate Dei. City of God book V
edited with an Introduction, Translation and Commentary by P.G. Walsh
This edition of St Augustine's City of God is the only one in English to provide a text and translation as well as a detailed commentary of this most influential document in the history of western Christianity. In this book, written in the aftermath of the sack of Rome in AD 410 by the Goths, Augustine replies to the pagans, who attributed the fall of Rome to the Christian religion and its prohibition of the worship of the pagan gods. ...
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Archaic Roman Religion, Volume I Archaic Roman Religion Volume II
by Georges Dumézil
Dumézul's work is as notable for his method as his conclusions: meticulous philological and historical analysis of texts is combined with insights gained from sociology and philosophy. He believed that only by deciphering the basic ideological system underlying social and religious institutions can a particular divine figure, myth or ritual be properly understood, and it is in this spirit that these wide-ranging explorations of Roman ...
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Archaic Roman Religion vol 2
Dumezil, Georges
The second of two volumes discussing archaic Roman religion. From the study of texts, inscriptions, and archaeology of Roman sacred places, this volume traces the formation of archaic Roman religion from Indo-European sources through the development of the rites and beliefs of the Roman republic. The author describes a religion that was not only influenced by other religions, but influenced them as well, in mutual efforts to distinguish one ...
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Law and Religion in the Roman Republic
Olga Tellegen-Couperus
Over the past two hundred plus years, scholarship has admired Roman law for being the first autonomous legal science in history. This biased view has obscured the fact that, traditionally, law was closely connected to religion and remained so well into the Empire. Building on a variety of sources epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic this book discloses how law and religion shared the same patrons (magistrates and priests) and a common goal ...
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Ancient Angels: Conceptualizing Angels in the Roman Empire
by Rangar Cline
Although angels are typically associated with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Ancient Angels demonstrates that angels (angeloi) were also a prominent feature of non-Abrahamic religions in the Roman era. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the study uses literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence to examine Roman conceptions of angels, how residents of the empire venerated angels, and how Christian authorities responded to this ...
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The Last pagans of Rome
by Alan Cameron
The main focus of much modern scholarship on the end of paganism in the West has been on its supposed stubborn resistance to Christianity. This dismantling of this romantic myth is one of the main goals of Alan Cameron's book. Its subject is not the conversion of the last pagans but rather the duration, nature and consequences of their survival. By re-examining the abundant textual evidence, both Christian and "pagan", as well as the visual ...
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The Religious History of the Roman Empire
edited by J.A. North and S.R.F. Price
The Oxford Readings in Classical Studies series aims to bring together high-quality and influential articles on a particular area of scholarship, and this volume is no exception. The selection of essays covers paganism, Judaism and Christianity and the interactions between them in the Roman world. The first section considers civic religion and elective cults such as Mithraism. The second contains articles that focus on religious ...
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Spirits of the Dead : Roman Funerary Commemoration in Western Europe
by Maureen Carroll
This study draws on epigraphic, historical and archaeological evidence to survey the corpus of Roman funerary inscriptions that have been discovered and discuss what use can be made of them when reconstructing the past. Carroll analyses Roman attitudes to remembering, forgetting and commemoration before turning to more specific questions: what factors contributed to choosing a particular monument, and what messages do individual inscriptions ...
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Foreign Cults in Rome: Creating a Roman Empire
by Eric M. Orlin
Using models drawn from anthropology, this book demonstrates that Roman religious activity beginning in the middle Republic (early third century B.C.E.) contributed to redrawing the boundaries of Romanness. The methods by which the Romans absorbed cults and priests and their development of practices in regard to expiations and the celebration of ludi allowed them to recreate a clear sense of identity, one that could include the peoples they had ...
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Hadrian and the Christians
edited by Marco Rizzi
The essays in this book examine the emergent and increasingly confident Christian identities of the second century AD. They ask what part was played by the cultural background of that era, notably the second sophistic and the pro-Hellenic stance of Hadrian and subsequent Antonine emperors, and how Christians were able to exploit this in self-presentation to enable their integration into imperial elite society. 186p b/w illus (de Gruyter ...
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