Format:
1 Online-Ressource (344 pages)
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9 color illus. 12 b/w illus
ISBN:
9780691200828
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Figures, Color Plates, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: One State, under the Gods -- 2 Temple Construction: From Vows to Numbers -- 3 Temples and the Civic Order: From Numbers to Rhythms -- 4 Temples, Festivals, and Common Knowledge: From Rhythms to Identities -- 5 Pilgrimage to Mid-Republican Rome: From Dedications to Social Networks -- 6 Conclusion: Religion and the Enduring State -- Appendix: The Pocola Deorum: An Annotated Catalog -- References -- Index
Content:
How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social change. Divine Institutions places religion at the heart of this transformation, showing how religious ritual and observance held the Roman Republic together during the fourth and third centuries BCE, a period when the Roman state significantly expanded and diversified.Blending the latest advances in archaeology with innovative sociological and anthropological methods, Dan-el Padilla Peralta takes readers from the capitulation of Rome's neighbor and adversary Veii in 398 to the end of the Second Punic War in 202, demonstrating how the Roman state was redefined through the twin pillars of temple construction and pilgrimage. He sheds light on how the proliferation of temples together with changes to Rome's calendar created new civic rhythms of festival celebration, and how pilgrimage to the city surged with the increase in the number and frequency of festivals attached to Rome's temple structures.Divine Institutions overcomes many of the evidentiary hurdles that for so long have impeded research into this pivotal period in Rome's history. This book reconstructs the scale and social costs of these religious practices and reveals how religious observance emerged as an indispensable strategy for bringing Romans of many different backgrounds to the center, both physically and symbolically
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Padilla Peralta, Dan-el, 1984 - Divine institutions Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780691168678
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Römisches Reich
;
Tempel
;
Religiöses Leben
;
Geschichte 350 v. Chr.-200 v. Chr.
DOI:
10.1515/9780691200828
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691200828
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691200828
