Religious Experience of the Roman People

by W. Warde Fowler

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)Other religions

25 chapters15h 22mEnglish1911

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A series of lectures delivered by Professor Fowler at Edinburgh University for a public audience, concerning the development and decay of the religion of the Roman City-state. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Chapters (25)

1Lecture I - Introductory

3370

2Lecture II - On the Threshold of Religion: Survivals

2237

3Lecture III - On the Threshold of Religion: Magic

2150

4Lecture IV - The Religion of the Family

2622

5Lecture V - The Calendar of Numa

2617

6Lecture VI - The Divine Objects of Worship

2972

7Lecture VII - The Deities of the Earliest Religion: General Characteristics

2542

8Lecture VIII - Ritual of the Ius Divinum

3499

9Lecture IX - Ritual (Continued)

2777

10Lecture X - First Arrival of New Cults in Rome

2912

11Lecture XI - Contact of the Old and New in Religion

2792

12Lecture XII - The Pontifices and Secularisation of Religion

2198

13Lecture XIII - The Augurs and the Art of Divination

2180

14Lecture XIV - The Hannibalic War

2450

15Lecture XV - After the Hannibalic War

2812

16Section XVI - Greek Philosophy and Roman Religion

2202

17Lecture XVII - Mysticism - Ideas of a Future Life

2350

18Lecture XVIII - Religious Feelings in the Poems of Virgil

3300

19Lecture XIX - The Augustan Revival

2901

20Lecture XX - Conclusion

2117

21Appendix I - On the Use of Huts or Booths in Religious Ritual

641

22Appendix II - Professor Deubner's Theory of the Lupercalia

351

23Appendix III - The Pairs of Deities in Gellius xiii 23

732

24Appendix IV - Ius and Fas

442

25Appendix V - The Worship of Sacred Utensils

177

Religious Experience of the Roman People

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