Description
Book SynopsisThe Religious History of the Roman Empire: The Republican Centuries consists of fourteen chapters, all dealing with aspects of the religious life of Republican Rome between c. 500 BCE and the fall of the Republican constitution in c. 30 BCE.
Table of Contents1: Christopher Smith: Dead Dogs and Rattles: Time, Space, and Ritual Sacrifice in Iron Age Latium 2: John Scheid: The Priest and the Magistrate: Reflections on the Priesthoods and Public Law at the End of the Republic 3: Mary Beard: Acca Larentia Gains a Son: Myths and Priesthood 4: Jörg Rüpke: Religion and War: On the relationship of a society's religious and political systems 5: Andreas Bendlin: Not the One nor the Many; A Pragmatic Approach to Religious Behaviour in a Polytheistic Society: The Example of Rome 6: John North: Action and Ritual in Roman Historians: Or How Horatius Held the Door-Post 7: Olivier de Cazanove: Rites and Practices of Warfare in Italy between Romans and Samnites: Going under the Yoke and the Samnite Legio Linteata 8: Rebecca Flemming: Festus and the Role of Women in Roman Religion 9: Denis Feeney: Interpreting Sacrificial Ritual in Roman Poetry: Disciplines and their Models 10: Daniel Gargola: The Ritual of Centuriation: Frontinus, Hyginus Gromaticus and Centuriation 11: Filippo Coarelli: The Lucus Pisaurensis and the Romanisation of the Ager Gallicus 12: Filippo Coarelli: Rome and the Great Places of Worship in Italy 13: Mary Beard: Cicero and Divination. The Formation of a Latin Discourse 14: Alfred Schmid: The Peace of Augustus, The Equinox and the Centre of the World
