{"product_id":"2940015596922","title":"The Religion Of Ancient Rome","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAP.                                PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. INTRODUCTION--SOURCES AND SCOPE                              1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. THE 'ANTECEDENTS' OF ROMAN RELIGION                         4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. MAIN FEATURES OF THE RELIGION OF NUMA                     12\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV. EARLY HISTORY OF ROME--THE AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY          31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV. WORSHIP OF THE HOUSEHOLD                                    36\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI. WORSHIP OF THE FIELDS                                      58\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII. WORSHIP OF THE STATE                                      75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII. AUGURIES AND AUSPICES                                    96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIX. RELIGION AND MORALITY--CONCLUSION                         103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE RELIGION OF ANCIENT ROME\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION--SOURCES AND SCOPE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe conditions of our knowledge of the native religion of early Rome\u003cbr\u003emay perhaps be best illustrated by a parallel from Roman archæology.\u003cbr\u003eThe visitor to the Roman Forum at the present day, if he wishes to\u003cbr\u003ereconstruct in imagination the Forum of the early Republic, must not\u003cbr\u003emerely 'think away' many strata of later buildings, but, we are told,\u003cbr\u003emust picture to himself a totally different orientation of the whole:\u003cbr\u003ethe upper layer of remains, which he sees before him, is for his\u003cbr\u003epurpose in most cases not merely useless, but positively misleading.\u003cbr\u003eIn the same way, if we wish to form a picture of the genuine Roman\u003cbr\u003ereligion, we cannot find it immediately in classical literature; we\u003cbr\u003emust banish from our minds all that is due to the contact with the\u003cbr\u003eEast and Egypt, and even with the other races of Italy, and we must\u003cbr\u003eimagine, so to speak, a totally different mental orientation before\u003cbr\u003ethe great influx of Greek literature and Greek thought, which gave\u003cbr\u003ean entirely new turn to Roman ideas in general, and in particular\u003cbr\u003erevolutionised religion by the introduction of anthropomorphic notions\u003cbr\u003eand sensuous representations. But in this difficult search we are not\u003cbr\u003eleft without indications to guide us. In the writings of the savants of\u003cbr\u003ethe late Republic and of the Empire, and in the Augustan poets, biassed\u003cbr\u003ethough they are in their interpretations by Greek tendencies, there is\u003cbr\u003eembodied a great wealth of ancient custom and ritual, which becomes\u003cbr\u003esignificant when we have once got the clue to its meaning. More direct\u003cbr\u003eevidence is afforded by a large body of inscriptions and monuments, and\u003cbr\u003eabove all by the surviving Calendars of the Roman festival year, which\u003cbr\u003egive us the true outline of the ceremonial observances of the early\u003cbr\u003ereligion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is not within the scope of this sketch to enter, except by way of\u003cbr\u003eoccasional illustration, into the process of interpretation by which\u003cbr\u003ethe patient work of scholars has disentangled the form and spirit of\u003cbr\u003ethe native religion from the mass of foreign accretions. I intend\u003cbr\u003erather to assume the process, and deal, as far as it is possible in so\u003cbr\u003econtroversial a subject, with results upon which authorities are\u003cbr\u003egenerally agreed. Neither will any attempt be made to follow the\u003cbr\u003edevelopment which the early religion underwent in later periods, when\u003cbr\u003eforeign elements were added and foreign ideas altered and remoulded the\u003cbr\u003eold tradition. We must confine ourselves to a single epoch, in which\u003cbr\u003ethe native Roman spirit worked out unaided the ideas inherited from\u003cbr\u003ehalf-civilised ancestors, and formed that body of belief and ritual,\u003cbr\u003ewhich was always, at least officially, the kernel of Roman religion,\u003cbr\u003eand constituted what the Romans themselves--staunch believers in their\u003cbr\u003eown traditional history--loved to describe as the 'Religion of Numa.'\u003cbr\u003eWe must discover, as far as we can, how far its inherited notions ran\u003cbr\u003eparallel with those of other primitive religions, but more especially\u003cbr\u003ewe must try to note what is characteristically Roman alike in custom\u003cbr\u003eand ritual and in the motives and spirit which prompted them.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080968159472,"sku":"2940015596922","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015596922","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}