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The Religious Experience of the Roman People: From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus — John Shaqi

The Religious Experience of the Roman People: From the Earliest Times to the Age of AugustusFowler, W. Warde (William Warde)

Religion

The Religious Experience of the Roman People: From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus

Name: The Religious Experience of the Roman People: From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
Author: Fowler, W. Warde (William Warde)

Fowler, W. Warde (William Warde)

Cults -- Rome; Rome -- Religion

Connection of Augustus and Virgil. Augustus aims at
    re-establishing the national _pietas_, and securing the
    _pax deorum_ by means of the _ius divinum_. How this
    formed part of his political plans. Temple restoration
    and its practical result. Revival of the ancient ritual;
    illustrated from the records of the Arval Brethren. The
    new element in it; Caesar-worship; but Augustus was
    content with the honour of re-establishing the _pax
    deorum_. Celebration of this in the Ludi saeculares, 17
    B.C. Our detailed knowledge of this festival; meaning of
    _saeculum_; description of the _ludi_, and illustration
    of their meaning from the _Carmen saeculare_ of Horace.
    Discussion of the performance of this hymn by the choirs
    of boys and girls                                           428-451


    LECTURE XX

    CONCLUSION

    Religious ingredients in Roman soil likely to be
    utilised by Christianity. The Stoic ingredient;
    revelation of the Universal, and ennobling of
    Individual. The contribution of Mysticism; preparation
    for Christian eschatology. The contribution of Virgil;
    sympathy and sense of Duty. The contribution of Roman
    religion proper: (1) sane and orderly character of
    ritual, (2) practical character of Latin Christianity
    visible in early Christian writings, (3) a religious
    vocabulary, _e.g. religio, pietas, sanctus,
    sacramentum_. But all this is but a slight contribution;
    essential difference between Christianity and all that
    preceded it in Italy; illustration from the language of
    St. Paul 452-472


APPENDIX

I. ON THE USE OF HUTS OR BOOTHS IN RELIGIOUS RITUAL                 473

II. PROF. DEUBNER'S THEORY OF THE LUPERCALIA                        478

III. THE PAIRS OF DEITIES IN GELLIUS xiii. 23                       481

IV. THE EARLY USAGE OF THE WORDS IUS AND FAS                        486

V. THE WORSHIP OF SACRED UTENSILS                                   489


INDEX                                                               491


LECTURE I

INTRODUCTORY

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The Religious Experience of the Roman People: From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus

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