Pantheon : a new history of Roman religion / Jorg Rupke ; translated by David M.B. Richardson.

In this ambitious and authoritative book, Jörg Rüpke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over more than a millennium--from the late Bronze Age through the Roman imperial period and up to late antiquity. While focused primaril...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Pantheon. English
Main Author: Rüpke, Jörg (Author)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
German
Language and/or Writing System:
Translated from the German.
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Rome > Religion.
Religions > History.
Religion > History.
Religion.
Religions.
Rome (Empire)
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xv, 551 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A history of Mediterranean religion
  • Revolutions in religious media in Iron Age Italy: the ninth to seventh centuries BC
  • Religious infrastructure: the seventh to the fifth centuries BC
  • Religious practices: the sixth to third centuries BC
  • The appropriation and shaping of religious practices by religious actors: the fifth to first centuries BC
  • Speaking and writing about religion: the third to first centuries BC
  • The redoubling of religion in the Augustan saddle period: the first century BC to the first century AD
  • Lived religion: the first to second centuries AD
  • New gods: the first century BC to the second century AD
  • Experts and providers: the first to third centuries AD
  • Notional and real communities: the first to third centuries AD
  • Demarcations and modes of community: the third to fourth centuries AD
  • Epilogue.