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On Roman religion : lived religion and the individual in ancient Rome /

Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jorg Rupke, one of the world's leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rüpke, Jörg (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Series:Cornell studies in classical philology. Townsend lectures.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Individual appropriation of religion
  • Individual decision and differences of social order in late republican Roman priesthoods
  • Appropriating images embodying gods
  • Testing the limits of ritual choices
  • Reconstructing religious experience
  • Dynamics of individual appropriation
  • Religious communication
  • Instructing literary practice in the Shepherd of Hermas.