Altars of Republican Rome and Latium - Sacrifice and the Materiality of Roman Religion

This book reorients the study of sacrifice, examining the locus of ritual action - the altars of Republican Rome and Latium.

List of contents

1. The organization and boundaries of sacred places; 2. The economy of ritual: the site-specificity of votive offerings; 3. The seasonality of ritual: animal sacrifice; 4. Material memory.

About the author

Claudia Moser is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A fellow of the American Academy in Rome, she is the co-director of an archaeological field school at Settecamini, Italy and co-editor of Locating the Sacred: Theoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of Religion (2014) and Ritual Matters: Material Remains and Ancient Religion (2017).

Summary

This study assembles the often fragmentary physical evidence (altar placement and orientation, votive and faunal remains, sanctuary architecture) in order to explore the site-specific character of communal animal sacrifice in Republican Rome and Latium over centuries of ritual performance.

Product details

• Authors: Claudia Moser, Claudia (University of California Moser, Moser Claudia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781108428859
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42885-9
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; ART / History / Ancient & Classical, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, History of Architecture, Ancient History, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology