Chicago: Open Court, 1907. — 113 p. In every early religion there will of course be found, apart from external influence, traces of its own internal development, of stages by which it must have advanced from a mass of vague and primitive belief and custom to the organised worship of a civilised community. The religion of Rome is no exception to this rule; we can detect in its...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 476 p. This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life in Rome, from the foundation of the city to its rise to world empire and its conversion to Christianity. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 430 p. This book, the second of the two volumes that make up Religions of Rome, presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world from the early Republic to the late Empire (both visual evidence and texts in translation). More than just a "sourcebook," it explores some of the major themes and problems of Roman...
Routledge, 2020. — 178 p. This collection explores the multifaceted nature of the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient Italy. It examines Italic, Etruscan, and Latin deities in context and in the material remains, and also in the Greco-Roman written record and later scholarship which drew on these texts. Many deities were worshipped in ancient Italy by different individuals...
Routledge, 2020. — 178 p. This collection explores the multifaceted nature of the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient Italy. It examines Italic, Etruscan, and Latin deities in context and in the material remains, and also in the Greco-Roman written record and later scholarship which drew on these texts. Many deities were worshipped in ancient Italy by different individuals...
Edinburgh University Press, 2000. — 214 p. As Rome extended its influence throughout Italy, gradually incorporating its various peoples in a process of Romanization and conquest, its religion was extensively influenced by the cults of religious practices of its new subjects and citizens. It was a period of intense religious ferment and creativity. Roman religion, controlled and...
Princeton University Press, 2017. — 298 p. The Peace of the Gods takes a new approach to the study of Roman elites' religious practices and beliefs, using current theories in psychology, sociology, and anthropology, as well as cultural and literary studies. Craige Champion focuses on what the elites of the Middle Republic (ca. 250–ca. 100 BCE) actually did in the religious sphere,...
New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 2007. — 391 p. This book takes divine qualities (qualities that received public cult in Rome) in the last three centuries of the Republic as a lens through which to explore larger questions about community—about how Romans could and did think about themselves. Receiving public cult, divine qualities were part of Roman religion, which gave...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 201 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 172).
Although angels are typically associated with Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Ancient Angels demonstrates that angels (angeloi) were also a prominent feature of non-Abrahamic religions in the Roman era. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the study uses literary, inscriptional, and...
Dover Publications, 1959. — 256 p.
Lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation. The author was invited to lecture at New Haven during the month of March 1921 on a subject relating to religious history. He chose the ideas current in Roman paganism concerning the lot of the soul after death. Lectures included are: historical introduction; after life in the...
The Open Court Publishing Company, 1911. — 334 p.
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Brill Academic Pub, 2006. — 302 p. — (Impact of Empire 5). This volume presents the proceedings of the fifth workshop of the international thematic network ‚Impact of Empire’, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C. - A.D. 476, and, under the chairmanship of Lukas de Blois and Olivier Hekster (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands), brings together...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 304 p. A Place at the Altar illuminates a previously underappreciated dimension of religion in ancient Rome: the role of priestesses in civic cult. Demonstrating that priestesses had a central place in public rituals and institutions, Meghan DiLuzio emphasizes the complex, gender-inclusive nature of Roman priesthood. In ancient Rome, priestly...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 304 p. This book proposes a new way of understanding augury, a form of Roman state divination designed to consult the god Jupiter. Previous scholarly studies of augury have tended to focus either upon its legal-constitutional aspects or upon its role in maintaining and perpetuating Roman social and political structures. This book contributes to the...
Rome : École Française de Rome, 1989. — 594 p. Les Pénates sont une collectivité de dieux non individualisés qui tirent leur nom de la partie la plus retirée de la maison, le penus; ils sont donc spécifiquement attachés à ce lieu et, par extension, à toute la maison qu'ils désignent souvent métonymiquement, ce qui explique la forte valeur affective dont ils sont chargés. Dans...
Baltimore: The Jons Hopkins University Press, 1996. — xxx, 715 p. — ISBN 0-8018-5482-2. By exhaustive study of texts, inscriptions, and archaeology of Roman sacred places, Georges Dumézil traces the formation of archaic Roman religion from Indo-European sources through the development of the rites and beliefs of the Roman republic. He describes a religion that was not only...
2. éd. revue et corr. — Paris: Payot, 1974. — 700 p. — (Bibliothèque historique). — ISBN 2228026212. Remarques préliminaires Les grands dieux de la triade archaique Théologie ancienne Extensions et mutations Le culte
Routledge, 2019. — 392 p. The twenty-one studies assembled in this volume focus on the apparatus and practitioners of religions in the western Roman empire, the enclaves, temples, altars and monuments that served the cults of a wide range of divinities through the medium of priests and worshippers. Discussion focuses on the analysis or reconstruction of the centres at which...
Routledge, 2019. — 392 p. The twenty-one studies assembled in this volume focus on the apparatus and practitioners of religions in the western Roman empire, the enclaves, temples, altars and monuments that served the cults of a wide range of divinities through the medium of priests and worshippers. Discussion focuses on the analysis or reconstruction of the centres at which...
Brill, 1993. — xii, 194 p.; vii, 195-371 p., 73 pls. — (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain 108/1). My main concern in Book I is with the installation and development of the imperial cult in the Western, that is to say the Latin-speaking provinces of the Roman empire in the period from Augustus down to the Severi. I have attempted in this section...
Brill, 1992. — 627-868 p. — (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain 108/2B). Open worship of the Roman Emperor with sacrifice, priests, altar and temple was in theory contrary to official policy in Rome. The cult of the living emperor by less direct means, however, might be achieved in various ways: the offering of cult to his companion genius or the...
Brill, 1990. — vii, p. 376-626, pls. 74-113. — (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain 108/2A). Preliminary material Genius and numen Numina augustorum The imperial nvmen in roman britain Domus divina Augusto ut deo Augustan gods Augustan blessings and virtues Liturgy and ceremonial The augustales and the imperial cult Addenda to volume ii, 1 List of...
Brill, 2004. — xxiv, 400 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 147). This volume focuses on the headquarters of provincial cults and the principal features of the worship offered there on behalf of the province. Evidence for provincial centres survives in various forms of varying degress of reliability but, while no standard pattern emerges, it seems clear that every...
Brill, 2005. — viii, 256 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 148). This volume concludes the series with an apparatus. The list of Abbreviated Titles comprises all Abbreviations used throughout the four Parts while the Bibliography consolidates the books and articles cited in the four sets of References. The intention of the various Indices is to let the reader find his...
Brill, 2002. — xvi, 262 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 145). This volume deals with the institution and evolution of imperial cult at the provincial level from the earliest foundations under Augustus down to the mid-third century A.D. On the basis of detailed examination of evidence from the different regions or provinces of the Latin west the emphasis of provincial...
Brill, 2002. — xvi, 328 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 146). This volume analyzes the priesthood of the provincial cult in every province of the Latin west where evidence has survived in the period from Augustus down to the mid third century. Particular attention is paid to the epigraphic record, notably the Testimony of honorific statues especially at provincial...
Princeton University Pressr, 2017. — 416 p. The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. These shrines were...
Princeton University Pressr, 2017. — 416 p. The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. These shrines were...
Routledge, 2021. — 268 p. This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and communal experiences of the religious agency generated when ritualised activities caused human and more-than-human things to become bundled together into relational assemblages. Drawing upon broadly posthumanist and new materialist theories concerning the...
Routledge, 2021. — 268 p. This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and communal experiences of the religious agency generated when ritualised activities caused human and more-than-human things to become bundled together into relational assemblages. Drawing upon broadly posthumanist and new materialist theories concerning the...
Oxbow Books, 2023. — 336 p. The Roman world was diverse and complex. And so were religious understandings and practices as mirrored in the enormous variety presented by archaeological, iconographic, and epigraphic evidence. Conventional approaches principally focus on the political role of civic cults as a means of social cohesion, often considered to be instrumentalized by...
Oxbow Books, 2023. — 336 p. The Roman world was diverse and complex. And so were religious understandings and practices as mirrored in the enormous variety presented by archaeological, iconographic, and epigraphic evidence. Conventional approaches principally focus on the political role of civic cults as a means of social cohesion, often considered to be instrumentalized by...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — xii + 333 p. — (Cambridge Classical Studies.) Sacred trees are easy to dismiss as a simplistic, weird phenomenon, but this book argues that in fact they prompted sophisticated theological thinking in the Roman world. Challenging major aspects of current scholarly constructions of Roman religion, Ailsa Hunt rethinks what sacrality means in Roman...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003. — 240 p. Written by one of the world's leading scholars of the Roman world, An Introduction to Roman Religion offers students a complete portrait of religion in Rome during the late republic and early empire. It draws on the latest findings in archaeology and history to explain the meanings of rituals, rites, auspices, and oracles,...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 376 p. In this book, Philip Kiernan explores how cult images functioned in Roman temples from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity in the Roman west. He demonstrates how and why a temple's idols, were more important to ritual than other images such as votive offerings and decorative sculpture. These idols were seen by many to be divine and...
University of Texas Press, 2020. — 300 p. In ancient Rome, it was believed some humans were transformed into special, empowered beings after death. These deified dead, known as the manes , watched over and protected their surviving family members, possibly even extending those relatives’ lives. But unlike the Greek hero-cult, the worship of dead emperors, or the Christian...
University of Texas Press, 2020. — 300 p. In ancient Rome, it was believed some humans were transformed into special, empowered beings after death. These deified dead, known as the manes , watched over and protected their surviving family members, possibly even extending those relatives’ lives. But unlike the Greek hero-cult, the worship of dead emperors, or the Christian...
Longmans, Green and Company, 1931. — 257 p. Only those cults or phases of cults have been mentioned of which there seem to be survivals, and in the case of those mentioned only enough has been said to clarify the background of the survival. The order of presentation is only roughly chronological. The survivals of indigenous cults are given first, and these are followed by a...
Müchen: C. H. Beck Verlagbuchhandlung, 1960. — 444 S. Mit 33 Abbildungen auf 16 Taffeln. Книга состоит из 14 основных и 4 дополнительных глав, регистров и дополнений, включающих римский праздничный календарь и таблицы с изображениями. Три первые главы посвящены источникам, истории изучения и обзору исторического развития римской религии. Три следующие рассказывают о раннем...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 256 p. Pollution could come from any number of sources in the Roman world. Bodily functions, sexual activity, bloodshed, death - any of these could cause disaster if brought into contact with religion. Its presence could invalidate sacrifices, taint religious officials, and threaten to bring down the anger of the gods upon the city. Orators...
Brill, 2009 — x, 219 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 167). — ISBN 978-90-04-17503-7. The book is concerned with the question of how the concept of "god" in urban Rome can be analyzed along the lines of six constituent concepts, i.e. space, time, personnel, function, iconography and ritual. While older publications tended to focus on the conceptual nature of Roman gods...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 496 p. Belief and Cult argues that belief isn’t uniquely Christian but was central to ancient Roman religion. Drawing on cognitive theory, Jacob Mackey shows that despite having nothing to do with salvation or faith, belief underlay every aspect of Roman religious practices—emotions, individual and collective cult action, ritual norms, social...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 496 p. Belief and Cult argues that belief isn’t uniquely Christian but was central to ancient Roman religion. Drawing on cognitive theory, Jacob Mackey shows that despite having nothing to do with salvation or faith, belief underlay every aspect of Roman religious practices—emotions, individual and collective cult action, ritual norms, social...
Yale University Press, 1981. — 247 p. Paganism in the Roman Empire by Ramsay MacMullen is an up-to-date study, rich in primary sources. It examines the major cults from a social and cultural perspective, with the aid of many recently published specialized studies. Good for any student of the Roman Empire.
Harvard University Press, 2016. — 259 p. Scholars have long emphasized the importance of scripture in studying religion, tacitly separating a few privileged “religions of the Book” from faiths lacking sacred texts, including ancient Roman religion. Looking beyond this distinction, Duncan MacRae delves into Roman religious culture to grapple with a central question: what was the...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. — 215 p. Bona Dea, also known as Fauna, was a very important goddess of female initiations in Rome, and several features of hers were shared by similar goddesses in ancient Italy. This book sheds light on two hitherto unexplored features: the Dionysiac character and the Lydian style of her festivals. The wife of a consul took on the attitude and the...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 115 p. — (BAR International Series 3074). Why did the Romans worship a Persian god? This book presents a new reading of the Mithraic iconography taking into account that the cult had a prophecy. It is likely that the Mithraic reliefs alluded to it and the scenes in the upper panels depict the Golden Age which was the final result of many apocalyptic,...
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — xii + 179 p. Roman politics and religion were inherently linked as the Romans attempted to explain the world and their place within it. As Roman territory expanded and power became consolidated into the hands of one man, people throughout the empire sought to define their relationship with the emperor by granting honors to him. This collection...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — xii + 228 p. How do the senses shape the way we perceive, understand, and remember ritual experiences? This book applies cognitive and sensory approaches to Roman rituals, reconnecting readers with religious experiences as members of an embodied audience. These approaches allow us to move beyond the literate elites to examine broader...
Inner Traditions, 2005. — 240 p. An overview of Mithraism, the ancient Roman mystery religion popular in the Roman Legions - Provides a comprehensive history of Mithraism, including its influence on Christianity and Islam - Includes rituals, meditations, and teaching tales for readers who wish to follow the Mithraic path - Studies the evolution and divergence of the Eastern...
Brill, 2021. — 458 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 195). SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism explores how a range of cults and rituals were perceived and experienced by participants through one or more senses. The present collection brings together papers from an international group of researchers all inspired by ‘the sensory turn’. Focusing on a wide range of...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2002. — 240 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 164). The success and smooth functioning of the Roman Republic depended on a careful balancing of the interests of the individual and the interests of the commonwealth. This work examines the process through which new temples were vowed, built, and dedicated as a...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 344 p. 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. Divine Institutions places religion at the heart of this transformation, showing how religious ritual and observance held the Roman Republic...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 344 p. 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. Divine Institutions places religion at the heart of this transformation, showing how religious ritual and observance held the Roman Republic...
Princeton University Press, 2020. — 344 p. 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. Divine Institutions places religion at the heart of this transformation, showing how religious ritual and observance held the Roman Republic...
University of California Press, 2023. — 266 p. Phrygia in the second and third centuries CE offers more vivid evidence for what has been termed “lived ancient religion” than any other region in the ancient world. The evidence from Phrygia is neither literary nor issued by cities or their powerful inhabitants but rather comes from farmers and herders who left behind numerous...
University of California Press, 2023. — 266 p. Phrygia in the second and third centuries CE offers more vivid evidence for what has been termed “lived ancient religion” than any other region in the ancient world. The evidence from Phrygia is neither literary nor issued by cities or their powerful inhabitants but rather comes from farmers and herders who left behind numerous...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 416 p. - Analyzes the complex transformation of religion from 31 BCE-395 CE through the specific lens of animal sacrifice practices - Draws on broad interdisciplinary research, including literary, epigraphic, archaeological, art historical, philosophical, and scriptural evidence - Offers an interdisciplinary perspective appealing to scholars...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 416 p. - Analyzes the complex transformation of religion from 31 BCE-395 CE through the specific lens of animal sacrifice practices - Draws on broad interdisciplinary research, including literary, epigraphic, archaeological, art historical, philosophical, and scriptural evidence - Offers an interdisciplinary perspective appealing to scholars...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. — 573 p. From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean world In this ambitious and authoritative book, Jorg Rupke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. — 542 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-2943-5. A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the sprawling landscape of the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2007. — 542 p. — (Blackwell companions to the ancient world). A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the sprawling landscape of the Roman religion. An innovative...
Kohlhammer Verlag, 2021. — 324 p. The Roman Empire was home to a fascinating variety of different cults and religions. Its enormous extent, the absence of a precisely definable state religion and constant exchanges with the religions and cults of conquered peoples and of neighbouring cultures resulted in a multifaceted diversity of religious convictions and practices. This...
Zweite überarbeitete Auflage. — München: Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, 2006. — 264 S. Die römische Religion ist ein vielgestaltiges Phänomen, nicht einfach die Anhäufung einzelner Götter. Rüpke stellt ein sehr differenziertes Bild römischer Religion und Religiosität dar. Er geht auf die Funktion der Religion für die Römer, für das römische Staatswesen ein sowie auf die verschiedenen...
Translated from the German. — Oxford University Press, 2009. — 1115 p. This magisterial compilation personalizes and historicizes the history of religion in the city of Rome. After introductory essays on the documentary sources for the various Greek, Roman, Oriental, Jewish, and Christian cults in question, there are yearly lists of religious office-holders of various kinds,...
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 210 p. Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion with individual appropriations evident at...
Cornell University Press, 2016. — 210 p. Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion with individual appropriations evident at...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 328 p. 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...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. — 328 p. 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...
Revised and enlarged edition — Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 152 p. Religious individuality is not restricted to modernity. This book offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for the spectrum of religious practices and intensified forms of such practices only occasionally denounced as 'superstition'. Authors from Cicero in the first century BC...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 70 p. — (SpielRäume der Antike 5). Die sogenannten ˈArvalbrüderˈ betrieben den im vorstädtischen Bereich von Rom gelegenen ˈheiligen Hainˈ der Göttin Dea Dia. Die aus zwölf Senatoren bestehende Priesterschaft ließ ihre Kulthandlungen inschriftlich aufzeichnen – diese ˈKultprotokolleˈ sind bis heute umfassend erhalten geblieben und bieten eine Fülle...
Harvard, 2005. — 525 p.
This book discusses the history, topography, and urban development of Corinth with special attention to civic and private religious practices in the Roman colony. Expert analysis of the latest archaeological data is coupled with consideration of what can be known about the emergence and evolution of religions in Corinth. Several scholars consider...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 1999. — 391 S. — (Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten 44). Grundlagen des römischen Staates, der res publica, sind Kult und Religion. Daher ist die römische Kultur geprägt von sakralen Ordnungen und kultisch-religiösen Handlungen. Sie haben Eingang in das tägliche Leben gefunden und dieses maßgeblich mitbestimmt. Religiöse Vorschriften...
Papers from the International Conference held at the University of Zaragoza, 30 Sept. – 1st Oct. 2005. — Leiden: Brill, 2010. — 719 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 168). How different was the practice of magic in the Latin West from that of the eastern Mediterranean basin? Was it just derivative from Greek practice, or did it have its own originality? The recent...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 312 p. The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where the dominant, pre-Roman cultures (Celtic, Illyrian, Hellenistic, Thracian) are interconnected...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 312 p. The Danubian provinces represent one of the largest macro-units within the Roman Empire, with a large and rich heritage of Roman material evidence. Although the notion itself is a modern 18th-century creation, this region represents a unique area, where the dominant, pre-Roman cultures (Celtic, Illyrian, Hellenistic, Thracian) are interconnected...
Edinburgh University Press, 2000. — 250 p. This is a vivid account of what their gods meant to the Romans from archaic times to late antiquity, and of the rites and rituals connected with them. After an introduction into the nature of classical religion, the book is divided into three parts: religions of the family and land; religions of the city; and religions of the empire....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 267 p. This book examines the connection between political and religious power in the pagan Roman empire through a study of senatorial religion. Presenting a new collection of historical, epigraphic, prosopographical, and material evidence, the author argues that, as Augustus turned to religion to legitimize his powers, senators in...
Brill Academic Pub, 1980. — 294 p. — (Studies in Greek and Roman Religion). Pietas Diva Angerona Profänus, profänäre Gravitas and Maiestas Felicitas imperatoria Cupid and Psyche The Golden Bough The Goddess Ceres and her Roman Mysteries On the Magical Significance of the Tail The Origin of the Goddess Venus Orare, precari Augustus and Vesta Characteristic Traits of Ancient...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 184 p. — (Cambridge Introduction to Roman Civilization). This book provides an introduction to the religion and religious practices of ancient Rome. 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 184 p. — (Cambridge Introduction to Roman Civilization). This book provides an introduction to the religion and religious practices of ancient Rome. 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...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 280 p. In his sixth satire, Juvenal speculates about how Roman wives busy themselves while their husbands are away, namely, by entertaining a revolving door of exotic visitors who include a eunuch of the eastern goddess Bellona, an impersonator of Egyptian Anubis, a Judean priestess, and Chaldean astrologers. From these self-proclaimed religious...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2014. — 144 p. While the ancient Roman pantheon in many ways resembles that of ancient Greece, there is much that sets apart Roman mythology. Romans also borrowed from the religions of ancient Egypt, Asia Minor, and the Middle East, and legendary figures such as Romulus and Remus, tied closely to the history of Rome, feature prominently in...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 384 p. - A major contribution on the economic significance of Roman religion - Utilises a combination of diverse methodological approaches (historical, epigraphic, papyrological, archaeological, zooarchaeological) over a wide geographic frame - Provides a rich and broad survey of the intersection between religious activity and the economy, with...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 384 p. - A major contribution on the economic significance of Roman religion - Utilises a combination of diverse methodological approaches (historical, epigraphic, papyrological, archaeological, zooarchaeological) over a wide geographic frame - Provides a rich and broad survey of the intersection between religious activity and the economy, with...
Urbana-Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006. — 312 p. — (Traditions). In "Indo-European Sacred Space", Roger D. Woodard provides a careful examination of the sacred spaces of ancient Rome, finding them remarkably consistent with older Indo-European religious practices as described in the Vedas of ancient India. Employing and expanding on the fundamental methods of Emile...
СПб.: Квадривиум, 2018. — 896 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7164-0735-0. Жорж Дюмезиль (1899–1986) – французский социолог, филолог, историк религии. В серии фундаментальных работ (важнейшим звеном серии является эта книга) разработал теорию о трехчастной структуре мифологии древнейших индоевропейских народов и соответствующей функциональной системе: жреческой, военной и хозяйственной. Для...
СПб.: Квадривиум, 2018. — 896 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7164-0735-0. Жорж Дюмезиль (1899–1986) – французский социолог, филолог, историк религии. В серии фундаментальных работ (важнейшим звеном серии является эта книга) разработал теорию о трехчастной структуре мифологии древнейших индоевропейских народов и соответствующей функциональной системе: жреческой, военной и хозяйственной. Для...
СПб.: Квадривиум, 2018. — 896 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7164-0735-0. Жорж Дюмезиль (1899–1986) – французский социолог, филолог, историк религии. В серии фундаментальных работ (важнейшим звеном серии является эта книга) разработал теорию о трехчастной структуре мифологии древнейших индоевропейских народов и соответствующей функциональной системе: жреческой, военной и хозяйственной. Для...
СПб.: Квадрив иум, 2018. — 896 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7164-0735-0. Жорж Дюмезиль (1899–1986) – французский социолог, филолог, историк религии. В серии фундаментальных работ (важнейшим звеном серии является эта книга) разработал теорию о трехчастной структуре мифологии древнейших индоевропейских народов и соответствующей функциональной системе: жреческой, военной и хозяйственной. Для...
СПб.: Квадривиум, 2018. — 896 с. — ISBN 978-5-7164-0735-0. Жорж Дюмезиль (1899–1986) – французский социолог, филолог, историк религии. В серии фундаментальных работ (важнейшим звеном серии является эта книга) разработал теорию о трехчастной структуре мифологии древнейших индоевропейских народов и соответствующей функциональной системе: жреческой, военной и хозяйственной. Для...
М.: РГГУ, 2012. — 602 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7281-1306-5. Представлен комплексный анализ роли религии в политической системе Римской Республики. Подробно исследуются такие проблемы, как сакральное содержание магистратской власти, религиозные полномочия высших магистратур (консулата, диктатуры, цензуры), политическое значение и формы влияния жрецов (понтификов и авгуров), участие...
М.: РГГУ, 2012. – 607 с. ISBN: 978-5-7281-1306-5 Представлен комплексный анализ роли религии в политической системе Римской Республики. Подробно исследуются такие проблемы, как сакральное содержание магистратской власти, религиозные полномочия высших магистратур (консулата, диктатуры, цензуры), политическое значение и формы влияния жрецов (понтификов и авгуров), участие...
Киев: Университетская типография В.И. Завадского, 1887. — 112 с. Язык: русский дореформенный (с дореволюционной орфографией). Предлагаемая книга - первый научный труд российского историка и филолога, профессора римской словесности Ивана Григорьевича Турцевича. Монография посвящена древнейшему и одному из важнейших в Древнем Риме культу богини Весты и институту весталок. Религия...
Киев: Университетская типография В.И. Завадского, 1887. — 112 с. Предлагаемая книга - первый научный труд российского историка и филолога, профессора римской словесности Ивана Григорьевича Турцевича. Монография посвящена древнейшему и одному из важнейших в Древнем Риме культу богини Весты и институту весталок. Введение Культ огня вообще и культ очага Государственный культ Весты...
Нежин: Типо-литография Е.Ф. Вегнера, 1895. – 48 с. – (Известия историко-филологического института князя Безбородко в Нежине, том XV). Второй выпуск (продолжение) монографии антиковеда и медиевиста И.Г. Турцевича (1856-1938) "Культ Весты..." - "Суд над весталками" - был напечатан в Известиях историко-филологического института в Нежине, а также вышел отдельным оттиском
Пер. с фр. О. П. Смирновой. – М.: Новое издательство, 2006. – 280 с. — ISBN 9785983790612
Религия Древнего Рима долго находилась в тени греческой религии и мифологии и до недавнего времени оставалась «золушкой» антиковедения. Её новый, подлинный облик, освобождённый от навязанных ей идеологических парадигм и методологических неточностей, представлен в работе выдающегося...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 324 с.
В книге отображена история римской религии от ее истоков до кризиса III века. Эволюция римской религии и ее своеобразие характеризуются в тесной связи со своеобразием исторического пути Рима. Автор показывает место религии в системе ценностей Рима, ее роль в идеологии, воздействие на нее контактов с другими народами. Особое внимание уделено...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 324 с.
В книге отображена история римской религии от ее истоков до кризиса III века. Эволюция римской религии и ее своеобразие характеризуются в тесной связи со своеобразием исторического пути Рима. Автор показывает место религии в системе ценностей Рима, ее роль в идеологии, воздействие на нее контактов с другими народами. Особое внимание уделено...
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