G. Wissowa: _Religion und Kultus der Römer_, 2 ed., 1912. The Standard book on the subject; a comprehensive work of sound learning. Marquardt: _Römische Staatsverwaltung_, III, 2 ed., 1885. W. Warde Fowler: _The Religious Experience of the Roman People from the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus_, 1911. The best book for the period. Id.: _Roman Ideas of Deity in the last Century before the Christian Era_, 1914; _The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic_, 1899. J. B. Carter: _The Religion of Numa_, 1906; _The Religious Life of Ancient Rome_, chaps, i-iii, 1911. G. Boissier: _La religion romaine d’Auguste aux Antonines_, 6 ed., 1906. A valuable book written by a master. Dill: _Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius_, 2 ed., pp. 289-546, 1911. E. Beurlier: _Le culte impérial_, 1891. VIII Dill: _Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius_, pp. 547-626. Glover: _The Conflict of Religions in the Early Empire_, 3 ed., 1909. Benn: _Greek Philosophers_, pp. 487-522. J. Reville: _La religion à Rome sous les Sévères_, 1886. F. Cumont: _Textes et monuments relatifs aux mystères de Mithra_, 2 vols., 1894-1900. The only treatment of any of the oriental religions which takes fully into account the monumental, epigraphical, and literary evidence. Id.: _Les mystères de Mithra_, 2 ed., 1902; English translation, 1910; _Les religions orientales dans le paganisme romaine_, 1907; English translation, 1911; _Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans_, 1912. J. Toutain: _Les cultes païens dans l’empire romain_, II, 1 _Les cultes orientaux_, 1911. A valuable treatment of the oriental religions in the Latin provinces. The geographical distribution of these religions in Britain, the Gauls and Germanies, and in Spain has been discussed by C. H. Moore in the following places: _Harvard Studies in Classical Philology_, XI, pp. 47 ff.; _Transactions of the American Philological Association_, XXXVIII, pp. 109 ff.; and in _Studies in the History of Religions presented to C. H. Toy_, 1912. G. Showerman: _The Great Mother of the Gods_, 1901. Hepding: _Attis_, 1903. G. Lafaye: _Histoire der culte des divinités d’Alexandrie hors de l’Egypte_, 1884. R. Reitzenstein: _Die hellenistischen Mysterienreligionen_, 1910. IX-X Many of the pertinent articles in Hastings’ _Dictionary of the Bible and Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, in the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_, 11 ed., and in similar works are written by specialists and are valuable. A. Harnack: _Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte_, I, 4 ed., 1909; English translation from the third German edition, I and II, 1901. The most valuable book on the subject. F. Loofs: _Leitfaden zum Studium der Dogmengeschichte_, 4 ed., Halle, 1906. The opening chapters cover the early period. G. B. Stevens: _The Theology of the New Testament_, 1903. H. Holtzmann: _Lehrbuch der neutestamentlichen Theologie_, 2 vols., 2 ed., 1911.