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Veröffentlichung:	März 2007
Genre:	Philosophie
ISBN:	9781406772876
EAN-Code:	9781406772876
Verlag:	Mason Press
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
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Gewicht:	399 gr
Seiten:	280
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SURVIVALS OF ROMAN RELIGION BY GORDON J. LAING Professor of Latin The University of Chicago LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 55 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK 1931 SDrtt to dBmce an Kmw EDITORS GEORGE DEPUE HAPZSITS, PH. D. University of Pennsylvania DAVID MOORE ROBINSON, PH. D., LLD TTtf Johns Hopkins University TO MAURICE HUTTON PRINCIPAL EMERITUS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FOR FIFTY YEARS THE MAINSTAY OF CLASSICAL STUDIES IN CANADA When one religion finally supplants another, it generally takes over from its predecessor such of its usages as seem harmless or praiseworthy. LEGGE, Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity, 1.84-85. PREFACE IN THIS treatment of survivals the term Roman religion has been used with its current comprehensiveness and so includes all the cults, of whatever provenance, that found a following in Rome. It is not of course a logical designation but it has the merit of be ing a convenient one. Strictly speaking, Ro man religion would mean that animism which prevailed before the period of the Tarquin dynasty when Greek influence, streaming into Rome from Etruria on the north and Magna Graecia on the south, transformed the whole system through the introduction of imitative temples and borrowed statue types. Nor did the process of transformation and accretion cease with the introduction of gods and forms of ritual from other parts of Italy and from Greece. As early as the Hannibalic war the Romans showed interest in the worship of Cy- vii SURVIVALS OF ROMAN RELIGION bele, the Great Mother of the Gods, a Phrygian nature-goddess, and established her cult on the Palatine Hill. Later other Oriental divinities were introduced, and although many of them failed toobtain recognition by the state they formed an important part of the religious com plex in Rome and Italy. Still another element in the situation was the cult of the deified em perors which, initiated by the deification of Julius Caesar, flourished till the time of Maxen tius. Of the nature of these religions and - of the his tory of their development in Rome no attempt has been made to give a detailed or systematic account in this essay. Only those cults or phases of cults have been mentioned of which there seem to be survivals, and in the case of those mentioned only enough has been said to clarify the background of the survival. It is only with survivals, that is with the debt of later civilization to the religious beliefs and practices of the Romans, that the book is con cerned. viii PREFACE The order of presentation is only roughly chronological. The survivals of indigenous cults are given first, and these are followed by a discussion of the traces that remain of the foreign gods worshipped in Rome and of em peror-worship. Then various relics of ancient religious belief, ritual or practice have been described, and at the end a brief account of material remains has been added. The precarious character of any study in survivals for the subject is even more peril ous than the search for traces of influence in literary genetics has been kept in mind throughout, and the plan has been to designate nothing as a survival till after careful scrutiny. The intemperate tone of some of the writings on the subject for example Tredes books which, though containing much valuable infor mation, are marred by exaggeration and hos tility to the Church has been sufficient warn ing of the danger ofhasty conclusions. And in cases where it has been difficult to distinguish between survivals and parallels and these ix SURVIVALS OF ROMAN RELIGION are numerous the available data, often ob viously inadequate, have been given and the de cision left to the reader. Baffling as the study of survivals often is, it is none the less interesting, and the number and importance of the remains become more and more impressive as one pursues the quest...