Mary Beard,Simon Price,John North
This book offers a radical survey of over a 1000 years of religious life, from the foundation of Rome to its rise to world empire & Xian conversion. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the 8th century BCE & the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the 1st centuries of the Xian era. A companion volume, Religions of Rome, Vol 2: A Sourcebook, sets out a wide range of documents, illustrating the religious life in the Roman world.,Acknowledgements ,Preface ,Conventions & abbreviations ,Maps ,1 Early Rome ,2 Imperial triumph & religious change ,3 Religion in the late Republic ,4 The place of religion: Rome in the early Empire ,5 The boundaries of Roman religion ,6 The religions of imperial Rome ,7 Roman religion & Roman Empire ,8 Roman religion & Christian emperors: 4th & 5th centuries Bibliography ,Details of maps & illustrations ,Index
History,Religion,Nonfiction,Classics,History,Ancient History,Roman,Academic,School,Religion,Theology,Reference,Spirituality
Religions of Rome: A History