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This is an introduction to religion in Rome during the late republic and early empire. Written by one of the world's leading scholars of the subject, it draws on the latest findings in archaeology and history to explain the meanings of rituals, rites, auspices and oracles, to de…
This is an introduction to religion in Rome during the late republic and early empire. Written by one of the world's leading scholars of the subject, it draws on the latest findings in archaeology and history to explain the meanings of rituals, rites, auspices and oracles, to de…
"Although the Greco-Roman world was centered on the Mediterranean ... from c700 BC into the Roman period a series of explorers were to discover the entire Atlantic coast, north to Ireland, Scandinavia and the Baltic, and south into the African tropics."--Jacket
"Although the Greco-Roman world was centered on the Mediterranean ... from c700 BC into the Roman period a series of explorers were to discover the entire Atlantic coast, north to Ireland, Scandinavia and the Baltic, and south into the African tropics."--Jacket.
This book offers an enlivening and sophisticated analysis of the pervasive use of historical myth in some of the most well known writers of the Late Republic and Augustan periods - from Cicero in the De Republica and the first book of Livy to Propertius IV and Ovid's Fasti. The …
