The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner

by Harriet I. Flower

The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. These shrines were maintained primarily by ordinary Romans, and often by slaves and freedmen, for whom the lares cult provided...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691175004
• ISBN13: 9780691175003
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.3" x 10.1"