Religions of Rome Volume 1 of 2

Cover......Page 1
Religions of Rome 1: A History......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Conventions and abbreviations......Page 11
Maps......Page 13
1. Finding the religion of the early Romans......Page 22
2. The priests and religious authority......Page 39
3. Gods and goddesses in the life of Rome......Page 51
4. Religion and action......Page 63
5. Adjusting to the new Republic......Page 75
6. Innovation and change......Page 82
1. The Interpretation of change......Page 94
2. The later third century B.C.: Innovation and tradition......Page 100
3. Reactions to change......Page 108
4. Priests in politics......Page 120
5. The religious Situation of the mid-second Century......Page 129
3 Religion in the late Republic......Page 135
1. Comparative history?......Page 140
2. Disruption and neglect?......Page 146
Bibulus watches the heavens......Page 147
The trial of Clodius......Page 150
The flamen Dialis......Page 151
The changing ceremony of evocatio......Page 153
3. The politics of religion......Page 155
4. Divus Julius: becoming a god?......Page 161
5. Religious differentiation: scepticism, expertise and magic......Page 170
6. Rome and the outside world......Page 177
4 The place of religion: Rome in theearly Empire......Page 188
1. Myths and place......Page 192
The Parilia......Page 195
The pomerium......Page 198
2. The re-placing of Roman religion......Page 202
Augustus - or new Romulus?......Page 203
Restructuring the city......Page 205
Priesthoods and the emperor......Page 207
Priesthoods and the senatorial élite......Page 213
Temples......Page 217
The Saecular Games......Page 222
Imperial rituals......Page 227
5 The boundaries of Roman religion......Page 232
1. Defining the acceptable......Page 235
2. Patrolling the unacceptable......Page 249
6 The religious of imperial Rome......Page 266
1. The landscape of official cults at Rome......Page 270
2. The visibility of religions......Page 281
3. The appeal......Page 299
4. The members......Page 312
5. Homogeneity and exclusivity......Page 322
7 Roman religion and Roman Empire......Page 334
1. Roman religion outside Rome......Page 341
2. Controls and Integration......Page 360
3. Imperial rituals......Page 369
8 Roman religion and Christian emperors: fourth and fifih centuries......Page 385
1. Constantine and the church......Page 386
2. Imperial religious policy......Page 390
3. The growth of the Christian church......Page 396
4. The traditional gods......Page 402
Bibliography......Page 410
Details of illustrations......Page 453
Index......Page 457