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5 giorni fa · The vocabulary of ancient Roman religion was highly specialized. Its study affords important information about the religion, traditions and beliefs of the ancient Romans. This legacy is conspicuous in European cultural history in its influence on later juridical and religious vocabulary in Europe, particularly of the Christian Church. [1] .
2 giorni fa · Double-faced Mithraic relief. Fiano Romano (Rome), 2nd to 3rd century CE ( Louvre Museum ). Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries or the Cult of Mithras, was a Roman mystery religion centered on the god Mithras.
3 giorni fa · Roman society at the time was primarily a cultural mix of Latin and Etruscan societies, as well as of Sabine, Oscan, and Greek cultural elements, which is especially visible in the Ancient Roman religion and its Pantheon.
4 giorni fa · Rome, historic city and the capital of Italy. It is in the central part of the Italian peninsula, on the Tiber River. Once capital of an ancient republic and empire and seat of the Roman Catholic Church, it became the site of major pinnacles of artistic and intellectual development and is called the Eternal City.
3 giorni fa · Ailsa Hunt, Reviving Roman Religion: Sacred Trees in the Roman World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016); Rebecca Armstrong, Vergil’s Green Thoughts: Plants, Humans, and the Divine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019); Christopher H. Hallett, “The Wood Comes to the City: Ancient Trees, Sacred Groves, and the ‘Greening’ of Early Augustan Rome,” Religion in the Roman Empire ...
4 giorni fa · Flavian dynasty. Domitian (born Oct. 24, ad 51—died Sept. 18, ad 96, Rome [Italy]) was a Roman emperor ( ad 81–96), known chiefly for the reign of terror under which prominent members of the Senate lived during his last years. Titus Flavius Domitianus was the second son of the future emperor Vespasian and Flavia Domitilla.
3 giorni fa · The chronological and geographical scope of work is striking, taking the reader on a journey through eight distinct eras: one, ‘The ancient Near East’; two, ‘Greece’; three, ‘Rome’; four, ‘Early Christianity’; five, ‘The Middle Ages’; six, ‘Islam in the Middle Ages’; seven, ‘The early modern period’; and ...
