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Roman religion

Module by: Clifford Ando. E-mail the author

Summary: The module contains a basic bibliography for those seeking guidance to recent (and a few older) publications in Roman religion, with an emphasis on Anglophone material and books.

Surveys, introductions, textbooks and readers

Ando, C., ed. 2003. Roman religion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Beard, M. and J. North eds. 1990. Pagan priests: religion and power in the ancient world. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Beard, M., J. North, and S. Price. 1998. Religions of Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2 volumes.

Beaujeu, J. 1955. La religion romaine à l'apogée de l'Empire. Paris: Les Belles lettres.

Dumézil, G. 1970. Archaic Roman Religion. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Ferguson, J. 1980. Greek and Roman religion: a source book. Park Ridge: Noyes Press.

Gordon, R. 1990a. "From Republic to Principate: priesthood, religion and ideology." Beard and North 1990. 179-198.

Gordon, R. 1990b. "The veil of power: emperors, sacrificers and benefactors." Beard and North 1990. 201-231.

Gordon, R. 1990c. "Religion in the Roman empire: the civic compromise and its limits." Beard and North 1990. 235-255.

MacMullen, R. 1981. Paganism in the Roman Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press.

MacMullen, R. 1984. Christianizing the Roman Empire (a.d. 100-400). New Haven: Yale University Press.

Nock, A. D. 1972. Essays on religion and the ancient world. Edited by Z. Stewart. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

North, J. 2000. Roman religion. Greece & Rome, 30. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Rives, J. B. 2007. Religion in the Roman Empire. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Rüpke, J. 2001. Die Religion der Römer: eine Einführung. Munich: Beck.

Rüpke, J., ed. 2007. A Companion to Roman Religion. Oxford: Blackwell.

Rüpke, J. 2007. Religion of the Romans. Translated and edited by Richard Gordon. Malden, MA: Polity.

Scheid, J. 1985. Religion et piété à Rome. Paris: Decouverte.

Scheid, J. 2003. An introduction to Roman religion. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Warde Fowler, W. 1911. The religious experience of the Roman people, from the earliest times to the age of Augustus. London: MacMillan.

Wissowa, G. 1912. Religion und Kultus der Römer. 2nd edition. Munich: C. H. Beck.

The calendar

Fink, R. O., A. S. Hoey and W. F. Snyder. 1940. "The Feriale Duranum." Yale Classical Studies, 7. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Michels, A. K. 1967. The calendar of the Roman Republic. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Radke, G. 1990. Fasti Romani. Betrachtungen zur Frühgeschichte des römischen Kalenders. Münster: Aschendorff.

Rüpke, J. 1995. Kalendar und Öffentlichkeit: die Geschichte der Repräsentation und religiösen Qualifikation von Zeit in Rom. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Divination

Parke, H. W. 1988. Sibyls and Sibylline prophecy in classical antiquity. New York: Routledge.

Rosenberger, V. 1998. Gezähmte Götter: das Prodigienwesen der römischen Republik. Stuttgart: Steiner.

Rosenberger, V. 2005. "Prodigien aus Italien: geographische Verteilung und religöse Kommunikation." Cahiers Glotz 16, 235-257.

Festivals

Rogers, G. M. 1991. The sacred identity of Ephesos. London: Routledge.

Scullard, H. H. 1981. Festivals and ceremonies of the Roman republic. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

Versnel, H. S. 1970. Triumphus. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Warde Fowler, W. 1899. The Roman festivals of the period of the Republic: an introduction to the study of the religion of the Romans. London: MacMillan.

Priesthood

Rüpke, J. 2005. Fasti sacerdotum. Die Mitglieder der Priesterschaften und das sakrale Functionspersonal römischer, griechischer, orientalischer und jüdisch-christlicher Kulte in der Stadt Rom von 300 v. Chr. bis 499 n. Chr. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner.

Scheid, J. 1978. "Les prêtres officiels sous les empereurs julio-claudiens." ANRW 2.16.1.610-654.

Scheid, J. 1984. "Le prêtre et le magistrat. Réflexions sur les sacerdoces et le droit public à la fin de la République." C. Nicolet, ed. Des ordres à Rome. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. 243-280.

Scheid, J. 1993. "The priest." A. Giardina, ed. The Romans. L. G. Cochrane, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 55-84.

Scheid, J. and M. G. Granino Cecere. 1999. "Les sacerdoces publics équestres." S. Demougin, H. Devijver, and M.-Th. Raepsaet-Charlier, eds. L'Ordre Équestre. Histoire d'une aristocratie (IIe siècle av. J.-C. - IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.). Rome: École française de Rome. 79-189.

Religion and empire; religion in the empire

Ando, C. 2008. The matter of the gods. Berkeley: California.

Cancik, H. and J. Rüpke, eds. 1997. Römische Reichsreligion and Provinzialreligion. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Cancik, H. and J. Rüpke, eds. 2009. Die Religion des Imperium Romanum. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Frankfurter, D. 1998. Religion in Roman Egypt: assimilation and resistance. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Mitchell, S. Anatolia: land, men, and Gods in Asia Minor. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Scheid, J. 1999. "Aspects religieux de la municipalisation. Quelques réflexions générales." M. Dondin-Payre and M.-T. Raepsaet-Charlier, eds. Cités, Municipes, Colonies. Les processus de municipalisation en Gaule et en Germanie sous le Haut Empire romain. Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. 381-423.

Woolf, G. 1998. Becoming Roman: the origins of provincial civilization in Gaul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Religion and literature (and literacy)

Barchiesi, A., J. Rüpke and S. Stephens, eds. 2004. Rituals in ink. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner.

Beard, M. 1985. "Writing and ritual: a study of diversity and expansion in the Arval Acta." PBSR 53, 114-162.

Beard, M. 1986. "Cicero and divination: the formation of a Latin discourse." JRS 76, 33-46.

Beard, M. 1991. "Writing and religion: Ancient literacy and the function of the written word in Roman religion." Literacy in the ancient world. JRA Supplement 3. Ann Arbor, MI: Journal of Roman Archaeology. 35-58.

Beard, M. 1998. "Documenting Roman religion." C. Moatti, ed., La mémoire perdue. Recherches sur l'administration romaine. CÉFR 243. Rome: École française de Rome. 75-101.

Feeney, D. 1998. Literature and religion at Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Wlosok, A. 1967. Die Gottin Venus in Vergils Aeneis. Heidelberg: C. Winter.

Wlosok, A. 1990. Res humanae, res divinae. E. Heck and E. Schmidt, eds. Heidelberg: C. Winter.

Religion and politics; religion and war

Rich, J. W. 1976. Declaring war in the Roman Republic in the period of transmarine expansion. Collection Latomus, 149. Brussels.

Rives, J. B. 1999. "The decree of Decius and the religion of the empire." JRS 89, 135-154.

Rüpke, J. 1990. Domi militiae: die religiöse Konstruktion des Krieges in Rom. Stuttgart.

Taylor, L. R. 1949. Party politics in the age of Caesar. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Walbank, F. W. 1949. "Roman declarations of war in the third and second centuries." CPh 44, 15-19.

Ritual

Scheid, J. 1985. "Sacrifice et banquet à Rome. Quelques problèmes." MÉFRA 97, 193-206.

Scheid, J. 1990. Romulus et ses frères: le collège des frères arvales, modèle du culte public dans la Rome des empereurs. BÉFAR 275. Rome: École Française de Rome.

Scheid, J. 1999. "Hiérarchie et structure dans le polythéisme romain. Façons romaines de penser l'action." Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 1.2, 184-203.

Scheid, J. 2007. "Les sens des rites. L'exemple romain." Rites et croyances dans les religions du monde romain. EntrHardt 53. 39-71.

Temples and the material culture of cult

Derks, T. 1998. Gods, temples, and ritual practices: the transformation of religious ideas and values in Roman Gaul. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Gros, P. 1976. Aurea templa: recherches sur l'architecture religieuse de Rome à l'epoque d'Auguste. Rome: Ecole francaise de Rome.

Gros, P. 1996. L'architecture romaine. 1. Les monuments publics. Paris: Picard.Turcan, R. 1988. Religion Romaine. Iconography of Religions, Section XVII: Greece and Rome. Fasc. 1. Part 1: Les dieux. Part 2: Le culte. Leiden: Brill.

Orlin, E. M. 1997. Temples, religion and politics in the Roman Republic. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Ziolkowski, A. 1992. The temples of Mid-Republican Rome and their historical and topographical context. Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider.

Imperial cult

Fishwick, D. 1987-2005. The imperial cult in the Latin West: studies in the ruler cult of the western provinces of the Roman Empire. 8 volumes in 3. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

Friesen, S. J. 1993. Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia, and the cult of the Flavian imperial family. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

Gradel, I. 2002. Emperor worship and Roman religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Taylor, L. R. 1931. The divinity of the Roman emperor. Middletown, CT.: American Philological Association.

Weinstock, S. 1971. Divus Julius. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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