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Roman Religion (Paperback)
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Roman Religion (Paperback)
Series: New Surveys in the Classics
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The religion of the Greeks and Romans in the period before and
after the invention of Christianity provides a special kind of foil
to our understanding of modern world religions. Firstly, it
provides the religious background against which Judaism,
Christianity and eventually Islam first arose and it deeply
influenced their development. Secondly, in the period before these
religions developed, it provides us with a model of a sophisticated
society that had no such autonomous religions at work in it at all.
All too often books have been constructed on the assumption that
religion was a marginal part of life, interesting perhaps in an
antiquarian way, but scarcely needing to be placed at the centre of
our understanding. But the fact is that religious activity formed
part of every other activity in the ancient world; and so far from
placing it in the margin of our accounts, it needs to be assessed
at every point, in every transaction. This work offers a picture of
Roman religion and of some of the current debates about its
character and development. The focus of the survey is the religious
experience of the Roman people from about the third century BC to
the second.
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