Religions of Rome: Volume 1, a History

Reader in Classics Mary Beard; John North; Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall Simon Price
Cambridge University Press
9780521316828
0-521-31682-0

This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome, from the foundation of the city to its rise to world empire and its conversion to Christianity. It sets religion.

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in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eight century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era. The companion volume, Religions of Rome 2: A Sourcebook, sets out a wide range of documents, richly illustrating the religious life in the Roman world.