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Informationen zum Autor Jörg Rüpke Klappentext Jorg Rupke is Fellow in Religious Studies at the Max Weber Center at the University of Erfurt. He is author or editor of several books, including Religion of the Romans. Zusammenfassung Jorg Rupke analyzes ritual and intellectual change in the city of Rome from the third to the first centuries B.C.E. The development of rational argument about religion and antiquarian systematization of religious practices is contextualized with respect to Roman expansion and the cultural exchange between Greece and Rome. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Background: Roman Religion of the Archaic and Early Republican Periods 2. Institutionalizing and Ordering Public Communication 3. Changes in Religious Festivals 4. Incipient Systematization of Religion in Second-Century Drama: Accius 5. Ritualization and Control 6. Writing and Systematization 7. The Pontifical Calendar and the Law 8. Religion and Divination in the Second Century 9. Religion in the Lex Ursonensis 10. Religious Discourses in the Second and First Centuries: Antiquarianism and Philosophy 11. Ennius's Fasti in Fulvius's Temple: Greek Rationality and Roman Tradition 12. Varro's tria genera theologiae: Crossing Antiquarianism and Philosophy 13. Cicero's Discourse on Religion 14. Greek Rationality and Roman Traditions in the Late Republic Notes Bibliography Index Locorum General Index Acknowledgments
