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Roman religion / edited by Clifford Ando.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edinburgh readings on the ancient world
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Rome--Religion.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 393 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2003]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Praised in the Enlightenment for its supposed tolerance, the Roman Empire has been vilified for persecuting the early Christians. It professed a profound conservatism and yet received myths from Greece and Asia and gods from every corner of the Empire. Clifford Ando presents fourteen essays on central topics in the study of Roman religion and its connections with Roman literature, history, and culture. Subjects treated include the nature and development of religious authority and religious institutions; the control of space and time; and religion's role in fashioning Roman identity. Ando also discusses the narration and analysis of Rome's transition from Republic to Empire. Four essays are published in English for the first time. The book includes a chronology, biographical dictionary, glossary, and a guide to further reading.
- Contents:
- On comparison / Jonathan Z. Smith
- Polis-religion and its alternatives in the Roman provinces / Greg Woolf
- From republic to principate : priesthood, religion and ideology / Richard Gordon
- Feature of Roman religion / Arthur Darby Nock
- Ludi saeculares and the Carmen saeculare / Denis Feeney
- Cults, myths, and politics at the beginning of the empire / John Scheid, trans. Philip Purchase
- Theological efforts of the Roman upper classes in the first century BC / Arnaldo Momigliano
- Hierarchy and structure in Roman polytheism : Roman methods of conceiving action / John Scheid, trans. Philip Purchase
- Religious toleration in republican Rome / John North
- Religion for the empire / Clifford Ando
- Loca sancta / Sabine MacCormack
- Complex of times : no more sheep on Romulus' birthday / Mary Beard
- Roman state religion in the mirror of Augustan and Late Republican apologetics / Carl Koch, trans. Christpher Barnes
- Historical development of Roman religion : an overview / Georg Wissowa, trans. Christopher Barnes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-390) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Roman religion.
- ISBN:
- 9780748650989
- 0748650989
- Publisher Number:
- 99985083906
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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