Religion in republican Rome : rationalization and religious change / Jörg Rüpke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rüpke, Jörg.

Series:

Empire and after

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--Religion.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Religion.

Rome--Religious life and customs.

Religion and culture--Rome.

Religion and culture.

Physical Description:

vi, 321 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]

Summary:

The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford Ando demonstrates, the civil law was also an instrument of empire: many of its most characteristic features developed in response to the challenges posed when the legal system of Rome was deployed to embrace, incorporate, and govern people and cultures far afield. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Background: Roman Religion of the Archaic and Early Republican Periods 8

2 Institutionalizing and Ordering Public Communication 24

3 Changes in Religious Festivals 35

4 Incipient Systematization of Religion in Second-Century Drama: Accius 51

5 Ritualization and Control 62

6 Writing and Systematization 82

7 The Pontifical Calendar and the Law 94

8 Religion and Divination in the Second Century 111

9 Religion in the Lex Ursonensis 126

10 Religious Discourses in the Second and First Centuries: Antiquarianism and Philosophy 144

11 Ennius's Fasti in Fulvius's Temple: Greek Rationality and Roman Tradition 152

12 Varro's tria genera theologiae: Crossing Antiquarianism and Philosophy 172

13 Cicero's Discourse on Religion 186

14 Greek Rationality and Roman Traditions in the Late Republic 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812243949

0812243943

OCLC:

760293929