Divine Institutions - Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic

About the author

Dan-el Padilla Peralta is associate professor of classics at Princeton University. He is the author of Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League and the coeditor of Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation. Twitter @platanoclassics

Summary

How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social change. Divine Institutions places religion at the heart of this transformation, showing how rel

Product details

• Authors: Dan-el Padilla Peralta
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2020
• EAN: 9780691168678
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16867-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; PHILOSOPHY / Political, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Ancient, Social & political philosophy, History of Religion, social and political philosophy, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Philosophy of religion, Ancient history: to c 500 CE