The dancing lares and the serpent in the garden : religion at the Roman street corner / Harriet I. Flower.

The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dan...

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Main Author:	Flower, Harriet I. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Lares. Serpents > Religious aspects. Cults > Rome. Rome > Religious life and customs. Rome > Religion. Cults. Religion. Rome (Empire) Laren. Römisches Reich.
Online Access:	(JSTOR)
Physical Description:	xiii, 394 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 cm
Format:	Book