Religion in Archaic and Republican Rome and Italy: Evidence and Experience (New Perspectives on the Ancient World 2)

214 Pages·2000·3.84 MB·English

by  Edward Bispham

RELIGION IN ARCHAIC AND
REPUBLICAN ROME AND ITALY
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ANCIENT WORLD
General Editors
Roger Green, University of Glasgow
Christopher Smith, University of St Andrews
Karen Stears, University of Edinburgh
Published
1
Sicily from Aeneas to Augustus
New Approaches in Archaeology and History
edited by Christopher Smith and John Serrati
2
Religion in Archaic and Republican Rome and Italy
Evidence and Experience
edited by Edward Bispham and Christopher Smith
RELIGION IN ARCHAIC
AND REPUBLICAN
ROME AND ITALY
Evidence and Experience
Edited by
Edward Bispham and Christopher Smith
Edinburgh University Press
© editorial matter and organisation,
Edward Bispham and Christopher Smith, 2000
© the chapters their authors, 2000
Edinburgh University Press Ltd
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CONTENTS
Preface vii
List of contributors ix
List of abbreviations x
List of figures xiv
1 Introduction 1
Edward Bispham
2 An anthropologist's view of ritual 19
Nicole Bourque
3 Tuscan order: the development of Etruscan sanctuary
architecture 34
Vedia Izzet
4 Sacred rubbish 54
Fay Glinister
5 Some thoughts on the 'religious romanisation' of Italy
before the Social War 71
Olivier de Cazanove
6 From Concordia to the Quirinal: notes on religion and
politics in mid-republican/hellenistic Rome 77
Emmanuele Curti
7 Prophet and text in the third century BC 92
y. A. North
8 The games of Hercules 108
T. P. Wiseman
9 Looking beyond the civic compromise: religious pluralism
in late republican Rome 115
Andreas Bendlin
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10 Worshipping Mater Matuta: ritual and context 136
Christopher Smith
Notes 156
Bibliography IIA
Index 197
PREFACE
This volume has taken us longer to complete than we originally imagined
it would. Now that we have reached completion, it is a pleasant final task
to have to thank our contributors, and everyone else who has made this
publication possible. It had its genesis in a one-day conference ('Religion
in Archaic and Republican Rome: Evidence and Experience'), held at the
John Maclntyre Centre at the University of Edinburgh, under the shadow
of Salisbury Crags and Arthur's Seat, on 3 May 1997. The conference was
addressed by speakers from the UK, France, Germany and Italy, and well
attended by over seventy-five students and scholars from England and
Scotland.
Conferences place a heavy drain on resources. Without the financial
support of a number of bodies we would never have been able to bring
this project to fruition: grants were made by the Arts, Divinity and Music
Faculty Group Research Fund, and the Interdisciplinary Research Fund,
of the University of Edinburgh; the School of Greek, Latin and Ancient
History, University of St Andrews; and the Classical Association of
Scotland. For this generous support we are truly grateful; we hope this
volume will repay their confidence, and in turn encourage the support of
further endeavours in the classics in Scotland.
Time is another resource, of which the editors did not have enough to
organise the conference alone. We are grateful to John Richardson, Keith
Rutter and Karen Stears for their hospitality, and to Keith Rutter for his
good advice on organisation and funding. Special thanks also go (as ever)
to the indefatigable Elaine Hutchison, and to Lisa Bligh, Bernard Randall
and Alison Kyle, who staffed receptions before and during the conference.
Subsequent to the conference itself, without the sound advice and con
siderable patience of John Davey at Edinburgh University Press, this
volume could not have seen the light of day.
It is perhaps wrong in a volume of collected papers for the editors to
make any kind of dedication; but we are both conscious of how much
we owe to our colleagues in Edinburgh and St Andrews, and indeed in
Glasgow as well, for support, counsel and companionship. Their many
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virtues have made our lives easier in the organising and editing of this
volume, and for this and many other reasons they have earned our
profound gratitude.
Edward Bispham, Edinburgh, Oxford
Christopher Smith, St Andrews
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Dr Andréas Bendlin is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the
University of Erfurt.
Dr Edward Bispham is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History of
Brasenose and St Anne's Colleges, University of Oxford.
Dr Nicole Bourque is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Glasgow.
Dr Emmanuele Curti is a Lecturer in the Department of History at
Birkbeck College, London.
Prof. Olivier de Cazenove is Professor of Ancient History at the Uni
versity of Paris (I Sorbonne).
Dr Fay Glinister is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at
University College London.
Dr Vedia Izzet is a Research Fellow at Christ's College, University of
Cambridge.
Prof. J. A. North is Professor of History in the Department of History,
University College London.
Dr Christopher Smith is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History in the
School of Greek, Latin and Ancient History, University of St Andrews.
Prof. T. P. Wiseman is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the
University of Exeter.
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