The Gods, the State, and the Individual: Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome

by John Scheid

Book Overview

Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine using technical terms widely employed to describe relations with other humans. Indeed, there was not even a word in classical Latin that corresponds to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812247663
• ISBN13: 9780812247664
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"