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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rüpke, Jörg.

Series:

Empire and after.

Empire and After

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and culture--Rome.

Religion and culture.

Rome--Religion.

Rome.

Rome--Religious life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Roman religion as we know it is largely the product of the middle and late republic, the period falling roughly between the victory of Rome over its Latin allies in 338 B.C.E. and the attempt of the Italian peoples in the Social War to stop Roman domination, resulting in the victory of Rome over all of Italy in 89 B.C.E. This period witnessed the expansion and elaboration of large public rituals such as the games and the triumph as well as significant changes to Roman intellectual life, including the emergence of new media like the written calendar and new genres such as law, antiquarian writing, and philosophical discourse. In Religion in Republican Rome Jörg Rüpke argues that religious change in the period is best understood as a process of rationalization: rules and principles were abstracted from practice, then made the object of a specialized discourse with its own rules of argument and institutional loci. Thus codified and elaborated, these then guided future conduct and elaboration. Rüpke concentrates on figures both famous and less well known, including Gnaeus Flavius, Ennius, Accius, Varro, Cicero, and Julius Caesar. He contextualizes the development of rational argument about religion and antiquarian systematization of religious practices with respect to two complex processes: Roman expansion in its manifold dimensions on the one hand and cultural exchange between Greece and Rome on the other.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

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

Chapter 2. Institutionalizing and Ordering Public Communication

Chapter 3. Changes in Religious Festivals

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

Chapter 5. Ritualization and Control

Chapter 6. Writing and Systematization

Chapter 7. The Pontifical Calendar and the Law

Chapter 8. Religion and Divination in the Second Century

Chapter 9. Religion in the Lex Ursonensis

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

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

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

Chapter 13. Cicero's Discourse on Religion

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

Notes

Bibliography

Index Locorum

General Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-299) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781283898140

1283898144

9780812206579

0812206576

OCLC:

823825383