Divine institutions : religions and community in the middle Roman Republic / Dan-el Padilla Peralta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Padilla Peralta, Dan-el, author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Temples--Rome.

Temples.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Rome.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Rome--History--Republic, 510-30 B.C.

Rome.

Rome--Religious life and customs.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 323 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Many narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social change. This book places religion at the heart of this transformation, showing how religious ritual and observance held the Roman Republic together during the fourth and third centuries BCE, a period when the Roman state significantly expanded and diversified. Blending the latest advances in archaeology with innovative sociological and anthropological methods, the book takes readers from the capitulation of Rome's neighbor and adversary Veii in 398 BCE to the end of the Second Punic War in 202 BCE, demonstrating how the Roman state was redefined through the twin pillars of temple construction and pilgrimage.

Contents:

Introduction : one state, under the gods

Temple construction : from vows to numbers

Temples and the civic order : from numbers to rhythms

Temples, festivals, and common knowledge : from rhythms to identities

Pilgrimage to mid-Republican Rome : from dedications to social networks

Conclusion : religion and the enduring state.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 5, 2021).

ISBN:

9780691168678

0691168679

OCLC:

1192382033