Religious History of the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews, and Christians, The
Edited by J. A. North and S. R. F. Price
Number of quotes: 11
Book ID: 166 Page: 9/10
Section: 1A
‘Greek religion’ --and nowadays this is a commonplace-- includes more than just the religion of Athens. It is a system of religious cults that includes a great number of locally variable elements.
Quote ID: 3488
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 166 Page: 10
Section: 2E3
Roman religion, on the other hand, is essentially or even exclusively the religion of a single city, the religion of Rome itself.
Quote ID: 3489
Time Periods: 17
Book ID: 166 Page: 10/11
Section: 2E3
A term such as Romanism, denoting the historical effects of the encounter with Roman religion, could only be applied, if at all, to Latin Christianity – and the centre of that was the city of Rome.
Quote ID: 3490
Time Periods: 47
Book ID: 166 Page: 11
Section: 1A,2B2,4B
conquered nations were allowed to keep their gods in the same way as they were allowed to keep their institutions and constitutions, as long as they did not impede Roman dominance.....(Hartung 1836: i. 231).
Quote ID: 3491
Time Periods: 047
Book ID: 166 Page: 12
Section: 2E3
the religion of the city of Rome, which disintegrated when the city itself fell.
Quote ID: 3492
Time Periods: 456
Book ID: 166 Page: 13
Section: 2B2
the Roman state made every attempt to ‘assemble all gods and spirits in the pantheon of world domination in order to transform them into an abstract and shared entity’ (Hegel 1837/1928: xi. 361f.). Here ‘world domination’ is the higher level to be attained.
Quote ID: 3493
Time Periods: 147
Book ID: 166 Page: 16
Section: 2B2
The alienation of the Roman gods from their traditional role was increased even more by the proliferation of their cult throughout the whole Roman Empire, which caused them to assimilate the gods of the barbarians and to conceal the worship of foreign deities in the provinces beneath their own names.....(Wissowa 1912, 85).
Quote ID: 3494
Time Periods: 23
Book ID: 166 Page: 16/17
Section: 2B2
the worship of the sun-god, which was promoted by the emperors in the third century to such an extent that he ‘really became a “god of the Empire” in its last centuries’ (1912: 90).{8}
Quote ID: 3495
Time Periods: 34
Book ID: 166 Page: 27
Section: 2B2
Despite the great importance of traditional pre-Roman local deities, especially for those outside the local elites, we must not overlook the fact that the media of symbolic communication were often gods with Roman or even, in the west, Greek names.
Quote ID: 3496
Time Periods: 0
Book ID: 166 Page: 27
Section: 2B2
one can usually make out a local god behind the name taken from the central culture.
Quote ID: 3497
Time Periods: 2
Book ID: 166 Page: 71
Section: 2D
The ancient commentator Servius, writing probably in the early fifth century CE, provides a plausible answer: ‘because, although the Romans adopted many rites (sacra), they always condemned those of magic.
Quote ID: 3498
Time Periods: 5
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