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On Roman Religion - Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome (Paperback)
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On Roman Religion - Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome (Paperback)
Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
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Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to
individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude
for individual initiative and creativity? Joerg Rupke, one of the
world's leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his
new book that it was a lived religion with individual
appropriations evident at the heart of such rituals as praying,
dedicating, making vows, and reading. On Roman Religion
definitively dismantles previous approaches that depicted religious
practice as uniform and static. Juxtaposing very different,
strategic, and even subversive forms of individuality with
traditions, their normative claims, and their institutional
protections, Rupke highlights the dynamic character of Rome's
religious institutions and traditions. In Rupke's view, lived
ancient religion is as much about variations or even outright
deviance as it is about attempts and failures to establish or
change rules and roles and to communicate them via priesthoods,
practices related to images or classified as magic, and literary
practices. Rupke analyzes observations of religious experience by
contemporary authors including Propertius, Ovid, and the author of
the "Shepherd of Hermas." These authors, in very different ways,
reflect on individual appropriation of religion among their
contemporaries, and they offer these reflections to their
readership or audiences. Rupke also concentrates on the ways in
which literary texts and inscriptions informed the practice of
rituals.
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