Religion in Archaic and Republican Rome and Italy: Evidence and Experience (New Perspectives on the Ancient World, Band 2) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748614311 ISBN 13: 9780748614318

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Challenging the view that early Roman religions were conservative and ritualistic

The early religions of Rome have been the subject of perennial fascination, and considerable study. Roman religion has conveniently been seen as conservative and ritualistic, whose observances were kept for reasons of pragmatism rather than inspired by emotion and faith. This view is challenged in this book, which reflects the new interest and excitement in studies of Roman religion.

The ten authors deploy a variety of approaches - archaeological, historical, literary, numismatic, epigraphic and anthropological - to present new and important ideas about Roman Religion from temples and oracles to games and votive deposits. Religious experience in Rome is seen in the context of developments throughout Italy and the Greek world, and is understood as taking place in real locations and at real times, each different form the generations before and after. The book is enhanced by methodological concern to make use of evidence from material and documentary sources, as well as by its wide chronological coverage. It includes work by leading British and European scholars, and makes accessible to a wide audience the most recent discoveries and ideas in the field.

The early religions of Rome have been the subject of perennial fascination, and considerable study. Roman religion has conveniently been seen as conservative and ritualistic, whose observances were kept for reasons of pragmatism rather than inspired by emotion and faith. This view is challenged in this book, which reflects the new interest and excitement in studies of Roman religion.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Edward Bispham is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Brasenose College, Oxford.

Christopher Smith is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0748614311
• ISBN 13: 9780748614318
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Bispham Edward, Smith Christopher
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