In the time of the Roman Empire, individuals fell into the pagan class either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative to the Christian population, or because they were not …

2024年5月25日 · Studying the gods of ancient Rome offers us a fascinating glimpse into the beliefs, values, and worldview of one of the most important civilizations in world history. By …

Religion in ancient Rome consisted of varying imperial and provincial religious practices, which were followed both by the people of Rome as well as those who were brought under its rule. …

In Rome, Christianization was hampered significantly by the elites, many of whom remained stalwartly pagan. The institutional cults continued in Rome and its hinterland, funded from …

2020年2月5日 · Although Rome’s imperial ideology certainly required sacrifice and homage to the emperor, within this milieu there evolved a flux of beliefs and practices. As Smart noted, these …

2024年6月16日 · In pagan Rome, religion played a meditating role between ruler and ruled. Barbarian tribes became Romanized over the generations thanks to a Roman policy of …

2023年11月7日 · Paganism in ancient Rome was a belief system based on polytheism, with the worship of multiple gods and goddesses, including the Roman gods, the Greek gods and a …

Plotinus and his Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophy of the pagan world from the mid-3rd century ce, had given powerful, mystical shape to the Platonic and Stoic conception that the …

Above all, Rome owed to its Etruscan kings its religious calendar. In addition to poetical works discussing the calendar in antiquarian fashion, such as the Fasti of Ovid, there are extant …

The book focuses on the members of the ‘pagan’ elite of Rome in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, most of them senators and/or belonging to old Roman families.