The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium

The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium
Author: Claudia Moser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2019-01-17
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1108428851

This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.

Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy

Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy
Author: Emma-Jayne Graham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2020-11-09
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1351982443

This book examines the ways in which lived religion in Roman Italy involved personal and communal experiences of the religious agency generated when ritualised activities caused human and more-than-human things to become bundled together into relational assemblages. Drawing upon broadly posthumanist and new materialist theories concerning the thingliness of things, it sets out to re-evaluate the role of the material world within Roman religion and to offer new perspectives on the formation of multi-scalar forms of ancient religious knowledge. It explores what happens when a materially informed approach is systematically applied to the investigation of typical questions about Roman religion such as: What did Romans understand ‘religion’ to mean? What did religious experiences allow people to understand about the material world and their own place within it? How were experiences of ritual connected with shared beliefs or concepts about the relationship between the mortal and divine worlds? How was divinity constructed and perceived? To answer these questions, it gathers and evaluates archaeological evidence associated with a series of case studies. Each of these focuses on a key component of the ritualised assemblages shown to have produced Roman religious agency – place, objects, bodies, and divinity – and centres on an examination of experiences of lived religion as it related to the contexts of monumentalised sanctuaries, cult instruments used in public sacrifice, anatomical votive offerings, cult images and the qualities of divinity, and magic as a situationally specific form of religious knowledge. By breaking down and then reconstructing the ritualised assemblages that generated and sustained Roman religion, this book makes the case for adopting a material approach to the study of ancient lived religion.

Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, C. 900-500 BC

Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, C. 900-500 BC
Author: Charlotte Rose Potts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0198722079

Religious Architecture in Latium and Etruria, c. 900-500 BC presents the first comprehensive treatment of cult buildings in western central Italy from the Iron Age to the Archaic Period. By analysing the archaeological evidence for the form of early religious buildings and their role in ancient communities, it reconstructs a detailed history of early Latial and Etruscan religious architecture that brings together the buildings and the people whoused them.

Voluntas Militum: Community, Collective Action, and Popular Power in the Armies of the Middle Republic (300–100 BCE)

Voluntas Militum: Community, Collective Action, and Popular Power in the Armies of the Middle Republic (300–100 BCE)
Author: Dominic M. Machado
Publisher: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2023-06-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 8413406382

Scholars, military men, and casual observers alike have devoted significant energy to understanding how the armies of the Roman Middle Republic (300 – 100 BCE) were able to function so effectively, examining their organization, hierarchy, recruitment, tactics, and ideology in close detail. But what about the concerns, interests, and goals of the soldiers who powered it? The present study argues that the military forces of the Middle Republic were not simply cogs in the Roman military machine, but rather dynamic and diverse social units that played a key role in shaping an ever-changing Mediterranean world. Indeed, the soldiers in the armies of this period not only developed connections with one another, but also formed bonds with non-military personnel who traveled with as well as inhabitants of the places where they campaigned. The connections soldiers developed while on campaign gave them significant power and agency as a group. Throughout the third and second centuries BCE, soldiers took collective actions, ranging from mutiny to defection to looting, to ensure that their economic, social, and political interests were advanced and protected. Recognizing the communities that Roman soldiers formed and the power that they exerted not only reframes our understanding of the Middle Republic and its armies, but fundamentally alters how we conceptualize the turbulent years of the Late Republic and the massive social, political, and military changes that followed.

Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice

Greek and Roman Animal Sacrifice
Author: Christopher A. Faraone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2012-03-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107011124

The first general critique of the interpretations of animal sacrifice established by Walter Burkert, the late J.-P. Vernant, and Marcel Detienne.

The Architecture of the Roman Triumph

The Architecture of the Roman Triumph
Author: Maggie L. Popkin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2016-07-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1316578038

This book offers the first critical study of the architecture of the Roman triumph, ancient Rome's most important victory ritual. Through case studies ranging from the republican to imperial periods, it demonstrates how powerfully monuments shaped how Romans performed, experienced, and remembered triumphs and, consequently, how Romans conceived of an urban identity for their city. Monuments highlighted Roman conquests of foreign peoples, enabled Romans to envision future triumphs, made triumphs more memorable through emotional arousal of spectators, and even generated distorted memories of triumphs that might never have occurred. This book illustrates the far-reaching impact of the architecture of the triumph on how Romans thought about this ritual and, ultimately, their own place within the Mediterranean world. In doing so, it offers a new model for historicizing the interrelations between monuments, individual and shared memory, and collective identities.

Divine Institutions

Divine Institutions
Author: Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691168679

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Stanford University, 2014, titled Divine institutions: religious practice, economic development, and social transformation in mid-Republican Rome.

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic

The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic
Author: Harriet I. Flower
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2014-06-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107032245

This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.

The Language of Images in Roman Art

The Language of Images in Roman Art
Author: Tonio Hölscher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2004-11-18
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780521665698

This book, first published in 2004, develops a theoretical concept for understanding the Roman art of images.