Roman Religion

Scholarship of a high order All the work presented is superlative ! I highly recommend reading the collection in its entirety as this facilitates full appreciation of the thematic overlap amongst the papers ! Ando's sub-topical introductions succeed admirably in articulating important topics and in locating the selected papers within the state of the field ... a challenging, stimulating and worthy book. Scholarship of a high order All the work presented is superlative ! I highly recommend reading the collection in its entirety as this facilitates full appreciation of the thematic overlap amongst the papers ! Ando's sub-topical introductions succeed admirably in articulating important topics and in locating the selected papers within the state of the field ... a challenging, stimulating and worthy book.

Clifford Ando is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. His books Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire and Roman Religion: A Reader were published respectively by the University of California Press in 2000 and EUP in 2003.

Introduction: Religion, Law, and Knowledge in Classical Rome; Introduction to Part 1; 1. On Comparison Jonathan Z Smith; 2. Polis-Religion and its Alternatives in the Roman Provinces Gregory Woolf; Part II Religious Institutions and Religious Authority; Introduction to Part II; 3. From Republic to Principate: Priesthood, Religion and Ideology Richard Gordon; 4. A Feature of Roman Religion Arthur Darby Nock; Part III Ritual and Myth; Introduction to Part III; 5. The Ludi Saeculares and the Carmen Saeculare Denis Feeney; 6. Cults, Myths, and Politics at the Beginning of the Empire John Scheid, trans. Philip Purchase; Part IV Theology; Introduction to Part IV; 7. The Theological Efforts of the Roman Upper Classes in the First Century BC Arnaldo Momigliano; 8. Hierarchy and Structure in Roman Polytheism: Roman Methods of Conceiving Action John Scheid, trans. Philip Purchase; Part V Roman and Alien; Introduction to Part V; 9. Religious Toleration in Republican Rome John North; 10. A Religion for the Empire Clifford Ando; Part VI Space and Time; Introduction to Part VI; 11. Loca Sancta Sabine MacCormack; 12. A Complex of Times: No More Sheep on Romulus' Birthday Mary Beard; Part VII Continuity and Change, From Republic to Empire ntroduction to Part VII; 13. Roman State Religion in the Mirror of Augustan and Late Republican Apologetics Carl Koch, trans. Christopher Barnes; 14. The Historical Development of Roman Religion Georg Wissowa, trans Christopher Barnes.