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Sacred Britannia - The Gods and Rituals of Roman Britain (Hardcover)
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Sacred Britannia - The Gods and Rituals of Roman Britain (Hardcover)
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Two thousand years ago, the Romans sought to absorb into their
empire what they regarded as a remote, almost mythical island on
the very edge of the known world - Britain. The expeditions of
Julius Caesar and the invasion of ad 43 brought fundamental and
lasting changes to the island. Not least among these was a pantheon
of new Classical deities and religious systems, along with a clutch
of exotic eastern cults including Christianity. But what of
Britannia and her own home-grown deities? What cults and
cosmologies did the Romans encounter and how did they in turn react
to them? Under Roman rule, the old gods were challenged, adopted,
adapted, absorbed and re-configured. In this fresh and innovative
new account, Miranda Aldhouse-Green balances literary,
archaeological and iconographic evidence (and scrutinizes their
shortcomings and how we interpret them) to illuminate the
complexity of religion and belief in Roman Britain, and the two-way
traffic of cultural exchange and interplay between imported and
indigenous cults. Despite the remoteness of this period, on the
threshold between prehistory and history, many of the forces,
tensions, ideologies and issues of identity at work are still
relevant today, as Sacred Britannia skilfully draws out.
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