Author : Celia E. Schultz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807830186
Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia E. Schultz demonstrates that in addition to observances of marriage, fertility, and childbirth, there were more--and more important--religious opportunities available to R
Author : Valerie M. Warrior
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,54 MB
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1316264920
Examining sites that are familiar to many modern tourists, Valerie Warrior avoids imposing a modern perspective on the topic by using the testimony of the ancient Romans to describe traditional Roman religion. The ancient testimony recreates the social and historical contexts in which Roman religion was practised. It shows, for example, how, when confronted with a foreign cult, official traditional religion accepted the new cult with suitable modifications. Basic difficulties, however, arose with regard to the monotheism of the Jews and Christianity. Carefully integrated with the text are visual representations of divination, prayer, and sacrifice as depicted on monuments, coins, and inscriptions from public buildings and homes throughout the Roman world. Also included are epitaphs and humble votive offerings that illustrate the piety of individuals, and that reveal the prevalence of magic and the occult in the spiritual lives of the ancient Romans.
Author : John Ferguson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801493119
Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 1998-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521316828
This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era. The narrative account is structured around a series of broad themes: how to interpret the Romans' own theories of their religious system and its origins; the relationship of religion and the changing politics of Rome; the religious importance of the layout and monuments of the city itself; changing ideas of religious identity and community; religious innovation - and, ultimately, revolution. The companion volume, Religions of Rome: A Sourcebook, sets out a wide range of documents richly illustrating the religious life in the Roman world.
Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 1998-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521456463
Volume two reveals the extraordinary diversity of ancient Roman religion. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years later. Each document is given a full introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and acts as a starting point for further discussion. Through paintings, sculptures, coins and inscriptions, as well as literary texts in translation, the book explores the major themes and problems of Roman religion, such as sacrifice, the religious calendar, divination, ritual, and priesthood. Starting from the archaeological traces of the earliest cults of the city, it finishes with a series of texts in which Roman authors themselves reflect on the nature of their own religion, its history, even its funny side. Judaism and Christianity are given full coverage, as important elements in the religious world of the Roman empire.
Author : Robert Turcan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1136058508
First published in 2001. This is a vivid account of what their gods meant to the Romans from archaic times to late antiquity, and an exploration of the rites and rituals connected to them. After an extensive introduction into the nature of classical religion, the book is divided into three pain main parts: religions of the family and land; religions of the city; and religions of the empire. The book ends with the rise and impact Christianity. Using archaeological and epigraphic evidence, and drawling extensively on a wide range of relevant literary material, this book is ideally suited for undergraduate courses in the history of Rome and its religions. Its urbane style and lightly worn scholarship will broaden its appeal to the large number of non-academic readers with a serious interest in the classical world.
Author : John Scheid
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253216601
"An Introduction to Roman Religion" offers students of ancient Rome and classical civilization entry into a distant world in which the state, the social life of the city, and religion were inextricably bound. Professor Scheid draws on the latest findings in archaeology and history to explain the meanings of rituals, rites, auspices, and oracles, to describe the uses of temples and sacred ground, and to evoke the daily patterns of religious life and observance within the city of Rome and its environs. "An Introduction to Roman Religion" includes a wealth of quotations from primary sources, a chronology of religious and historical events from 750 BC to AD 494, a full glossary and an annotated guide to further reading. -- From publisher's description.
Author : Jesse Benedict Carter
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Church history
ISBN :
Eight lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute in Boston, January, 1911.
Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 1998-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1316139190
Volume two reveals the extraordinary diversity of ancient Roman religion. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years later. Each document is given a full introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and acts as a starting point for further discussion. Through paintings, sculptures, coins and inscriptions, as well as literary texts in translation, the book explores the major themes and problems of Roman religion, such as sacrifice, the religious calendar, divination, ritual, and priesthood. Starting from the archaeological traces of the earliest cults of the city, it finishes with a series of texts in which Roman authors themselves reflect on the nature of their own religion, its history, even its funny side. Judaism and Christianity are given full coverage, as important elements in the religious world of the Roman empire.
Author : Bernard Green
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,94 MB
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567032507
of the Pope." --Book Jacket.
