The Gods, the State, and the Individual: Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome
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Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine using technical terms widely employed to describe relations with other humans. Indeed, there was not even a word in classical Latin that corresponds to...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812247663
ISBN13:9780812247664
Release Date:December 2015
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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