Peace of the Gods (eBook)

Elite Religious Practices in the Middle Roman Republic

Craige B. Champion (Autor)

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2017
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8515-2 (ISBN)

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The Peace of the Gods takes a new approach to the study of Roman elites' religious practices and beliefs, using current theories in psychology, sociology, and anthropology, as well as cultural and literary studies. Craige Champion focuses on what the elites of the Middle Republic (ca. 250-ca. 100 BCE) actually did in the religious sphere, rather than what they merely said or wrote about it, in order to provide a more nuanced and satisfying historical reconstruction of what their religion may have meant to those who commanded the Roman world and its imperial subjects.The book examines the nature and structure of the major priesthoods in Rome itself, Roman military commanders' religious behaviors in dangerous field conditions, and the state religion's acceptance or rejection of new cults and rituals in response to external events that benefited or threatened the Republic. According to a once-dominant but now-outmoded interpretation of Roman religion that goes back to the ancient Greek historian Polybius, the elites didn't believe in their gods but merely used religion to control the masses. Using that interpretation as a counterfactual lens, Champion argues instead that Roman elites sincerely tried to maintain Rome's good fortune through a pax deorum or "e;peace of the gods."e; The result offers rich new insights into the role of religion in elite Roman life.

Autor

Craige B. Champion is professor of ancient history and classics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is the author of Cultural Politics in Polybius's "Histories," the editor of Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources, and a general editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.5.2017
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: accumulative civic polytheism • Aedile • Alba Longa • Anarchy • Ancient history • Ancient Rome • Antiochus III • aristocracy • Aristotle • Arval Brethren • Augur • augury • Bacchanalia • Belief • Capture of Rome • Carneades • Carthage • Carthaginian Army • Cato the Elder • Centuriate Assembly • Cimbri • classics • cognitive dissonance • Cults • Culture of ancient Rome • Decius Mus • deity • Devotio • Dictatorship • Dionysius of Halicarnassus • Dionysus • domi • domi militiaeque • elite field-commanders • elite-instrumentalism • Ennius • Epigraphy • Equanimity • Evocatio • evocationes • Fabius Maximus • First Punic War • foreign deities • Forum Boarium • Gauls • Generosity • Gods • Haruspex • hegemony • Hellenistic period • historical society • human sacrifice • Ideology • Illustration • imperialism • Inception • injunction • Jugurthine War • Juno (mythology) • Liber • Literature • livy • Ludi • lupercalia • magistrates • Middle Roman Republic • Military • military campaign • Military Operation • Military threat • Military tribune • mos maiorum • narrative • nonelites • On Religion • orthopraxy • Patrician (ancient Rome) • pax deorum • Philosopher • Plautus • plebs • Pliny the Elder • polis religion • Political Life • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Polybius • Polytheism • Pomerium • pontifex maximus • Pontiff • praetor • priesthood • priestly authority • Priests • Princeton University Press • Principate • Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus • Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus • Religion • Religion in Rome • Religiosity • religious behavior • Religious Festival • religious institutions • Religious pluralism • Religious Practices • republican politics • Rite • Rituals • Roman Empire • Roman Religion • roman republic • Roman ruling elite • Roman–Syrian War • Rome • ruling class • Sacrifice • Scipio Aemilianus • Scipio Africanus • Scipionic Circle • second punic war • Seleucid Empire • Senate • Sibylline Books • State Religion • syracuse university • theocracy • The Philosopher • Uncertainty • Valerius Maximus • war • warfare • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8515-9 / 1400885159
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8515-2 / 9781400885152