Religion in Rome and Italy

C. Bruun and J. Edmondson, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press (2014), 420-44, 2014

Religious Individualisation, 2023

The Roman world was diverse and complex. And so were religious understandings and practices as mirrored in the enormous variety presented by archaeological, iconographic and epigraphic sources. The goal of this collected volume is to re-think our methodologies, aiming for a more dynamic image of religion that takes into account the varied and often contradictory choices and actions of individuals and social groups, and which reflects the discrepant experiences inthe Roman Empire. Is it possible 'to poke into the mind' of an individual in Roman times? Is the concept of individuality valid for Roman times? Pdf includes Introduction, Table of Content, and Short CVs of authors.

The practice of inscribing texts on permanent media such as stone or bronze was probably one of the most characteristic and enduring practices in the Greco-Roman world. Today, these inscriptions constitute elements essential to our understanding and knowledge of ancient society. On the one hand, the everyday, ordinary aspect of these texts gives us a less idealized picture of the classical world; on the other hand, the materiality of the medium makes distant antiquity more real, more accessible. The discovery of new epigraphic evidence is always exciting, and gives scholars an opportunity to display their skill in deciphering.

Cities and gods: religious space in transition

2011

A comprehensive treatment of the significant symbols and institutions of Roman religion, this companion places the various religious symbols, discourses, and practices, including Judaism and Christianity, into a larger framework to reveal the sprawling landscape of the Roman religion. - An innovative introduction to Roman religion - Approaches the field with a focus on the human-figures instead of the gods - Analyzes religious changes from the eighth century BC to the fourth century AD - Offers the first history of religious motifs on coins and household/everyday utensils - Presents Roman religion within its cultural, social, and historical contexts

2016

“On Roman Religion” will add the perspectives of lived ancient religion and individual appropriation to the study of Roman religious institutions and ritual. Lived religion and the individual appropriations need not to be sought at the margins of orthodox religious practices, in the niches of civic religion. These phenomena are identifiable at the heart of rituals like praying, vowing, dedicating, and reading. This book confronts the very different, strategic, and even subversive forms of individual appropriation with traditions, their normative claims, and their institutional protections. Thus the precarious state of institutions and traditions comes to the fore. These are as much means of expression and creativity for their inventors and patrons as spaces and material of experience and innovation for their users and clients. Lived ancient religion is as much about variations or even outright deviance as it is about the attempts and failures to establish or change rules and roles and to communicate them via public authorities or literary discourse. It is such roles and rules, the variations and their limits, the establishment and communication to oneself and others that constitute the material under consideration in “On Roman religion”: priesthoods, practices related to images or classified as magic, literary practices. Observations of contemporary authors like Propertius or Ovid or the author of the “Shepherd of Hermas” on religious experience are analyzed. These authors, in very different ways, reflect on individual appropriation of religion among their contemporaries, and they offer these reflections to their readership or audiences. Other chapters concentrate on the role of literary texts and inscriptions in informing practionners of rituals. The chronological arch is from the second century BCE to the second century CE. “On Roman Religion”offers a history of ancient religion that is not compartimentalized into a number of confessional histories.

a cura di John Bodel e Mika kaJava ESTRATTO ROMA 2009 John Bodel, Mika kaJava, Premessa / Preface 7 Abbreviazioni / Abbreviations 11 Concetti e definizioni / Concepts and definitions John Bodel, 'Sacred dedications': A problem of definitions 17 Jörg rüpke, Dedications accompanied by inscriptions in the Roman Empire: Functions, intentions, modes of communication 31 paolo poccetti, Paradigmi formulari votivi nelle tradizioni epicoriche dell'Italia antica 43 Regolamentazione / Governance paola loMBardi, Ἀναθέτω ἐν τὸ ἱερόν. Esempi di regolamentazione della dedica votiva nel mondo greco 95 carlos galvao-soBrinho, Claiming places: sacred dedications and public space in Rome in the Principate 127 Luoghi e contesti / Places and Contexts lucia d'aMore, Dediche sacre e ginnasi: la documentazione epigrafica di età ellenistica 161 giulio vallarino, I dedicanti di Cos in età ellenistica: il caso dei magistrati eponimi tra polis e demi 181 Mika kaJava, Osservazioni sulle dediche sacre nei contesti oracolari 209 Pratiche / Practices gaBriella Bevilacqua, Dediche ad Hermes 227 Marco Buonocore, La res sacra nell'Italia centro-appenninica fra tarda repubblica ed impero 245 Sommario gian luca gregori, Il culto delle divinità Auguste in Italia: un'indagine preliminare 307 carlos Machado, Religion as antiquarianism: pagan dedications in late antique Rome 331 Dediche mute / Silent dedications olivier de cazanove, Oggetti muti? Le iscrizioni degli ex voto anatomici nel mondo romano 355 laura chioffi, Anonime adprecationes 373

Scholia, 2002