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Volume 1 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 Of The First Centuries Of The Christian Era. Volume 2 Reveals The Extraordinary Diversity Of Ancient Roman Religion. A Comprehensive Sourcebook, It Presents A Wide Range Of Documents Illustrating Religious Life In The Roman World - From The Foundations Of The City In The Eighth Century Bc To The Christian Capital More Than A Thousand Years Later. Each Document Is Given A Full Introduction, Explanatory Notes And Bibliography, And Acts As A Starting Point For Further Discussion. Through Paintings, Sculptures, Coins And Inscriptions, As Well As Literary Texts In Translation, The Book Explores The Major Themes And Problems Of Roman Religion, Such As Sacrifice, The Religious Calendar, Divination, Ritual, And Priesthood. Starting From The Archaeological Traces Of The Earliest Cults Of The City, It Finishes With A Series Of Texts In Which Roman Authors Themsel

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Author

Beard, Mary, North, John, Price, Simon

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521304016

Category

history

Subjects

Christian, Religion, History

Rating

4.7 / 5 (53 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14