Religions of Rome, Volume 1: A History
10 best books like Religions of Rome, Volume 1: A History (Mary Beard): Battle Cry of Freedom, The Golden Ass, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter, Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations, How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, de Raptu Prosperpinae, Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome, The Roman Goddess Ceres
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.
James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and...
| Author | Apuleius |
| ISBN | 0253200369 |
The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass....
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 0486436578 |
Best known for his poetry, William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was also a dedicated exponent of Irish folklore. Yeats took a particular interest in the tales' mythic and magical roots. The Celtic Twilight ventures into the eerie and puckish world of fairies, ghosts, and spirits. "This handful of dreams,"...
| Author | Karl Kerényi |
| ISBN | 0691019150 |
The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to "see visions, " C. Kerenyi examines the Mysteries of Eleusis from the standpoint not only of Greek...
| Author | Alexander Carmichael |
| ISBN | 0863155200 |
Carmina Gadelica is the most complete anthology of Celtic oral tradition ever assembled. During his travels, Alexander Carmichael spent hours with peasants in their huts in front of peat fires listening as they "intoned in a low, recitative manner" these poems and prayers. This unique collection...
| Author | Adrian Goldsworthy |
| ISBN | 0300137192 |
A major new history of the fall of the Roman Empire, by the prizewinning author of Caesar
In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa,...
Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life
| Author | Karl Kerényi |
| ISBN | 0691029156 |
No other god of the Greeks is as widely present in the monuments and nature of Greece and Italy, in the sensuous tradition of antiquity, as Dionysos. In myth and image, in visionary experience and ritual representation, the Greeks possessed a complete expression of indestructible life, the essence...
| Author | Claudius Claudianus |
| ISBN | 0198147775 |
Claudian was one of the last great Latin poets of the classical tradition, writing in the fourth century A.D. This simplified text of his poem, De Raptu Prosperpinae, has a facing-page translation to make the work more accessible to non-specialists. This book sets Claudian in his rightful place as...
Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome
| Author | Anthony Corbeill |
| ISBN | 0691163227 |
From the moment a child in ancient Rome began to speak Latin, the surrounding world became populated with objects possessing grammatical gender--masculine eyes (oculi), feminine trees (arbores), neuter bodies (corpora). Sexing the World surveys the many ways in which grammatical gender enabled...
| Author | Barbette Stanley Spaeth |
| ISBN | 0292776934 |
Interest in goddess worship is growing in contemporary society, as women seek models for feminine spirituality and wholeness. New cults are developing around ancient goddesses from many cultures, although their modern adherents often envision and interpret the goddesses very differently than...
Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons: Women in Roman Religion
Roman women were the procreators and nurturers of life, both in the domestic world of the family and in the larger sphere of the state. Although deterred from participating in most aspects of public life, women played an essential role in public religious ceremonies, taking part in rituals designed...
Dictionary of Roman Religion
| Author | Lesley Adkins |
| ISBN | 0195142330 |
Long overshadowed by Greek mythology or treated peripherally in general texts on the ancient Roman world, Roman religion is finally accorded its due and set in its full context as no other reference source has done before. While perhaps most familiar in the context of Greek-influenced gods, Roman...
An Introduction to Roman Religion
| Author | John Scheid |
| ISBN | 0253216605 |
Written by one of the world's leading scholars of the Roman world, An Introduction to Roman Religion offers students a complete portrait of religion in Rome during the late republic and early empire. It draws on the latest findings in archaeology and history to explain the meanings of rituals, rites,...
Roman Mythology: A Traveler's Guide from Troy to Tivoli
| Author | David Stuttard |
| ISBN | 0500252297 |
All roads lead to Rome, as the famous saying goes. Rome was a melting pot of peoples from across the Mediterranean and beyond, each bringing their own myths and legends of heroes and heroines, gods and goddesses. Roman myths formed the backdrop to the rituals and customs of everyday life, from the way...
| Author | T. Wiseman |
| ISBN | 0977409457 |
"There was once a dream that was Rome." So says the old emperor Marcus Aurelius in Ridley Scott's epic Gladiator . It was a Rome of free citizens, brave, incorruptible, loved by the gods. It had its own myths, the stories that defined what the Romans were, and in due course it achieved mythic status itself....
The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy
| Author | James M. Redfield |
| ISBN | 0691116059 |
Athens dominates textbook accounts of ancient Greece. But was it, for the Greeks themselves, a model city-state or a creative, even a corrupt, departure from the model? Or was there a model? This book reveals Epizephyrian Locri--a Greek colony on the Adriatic coast of Italy--as a third way in Greek...
| Author | T.P. Wiseman |
| ISBN | 0859898237 |
In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome-as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments flourished. This original angle allows the voice of...
The Romans and Their Gods in the Age of Augustus
| Author | Robert Maxwell Ogilvie |
| ISBN | 0393005437 |
Basing his work on much original material (all of which is quoted in translation), R. M. Ogilvie gives a picture of religious life in Rome during the period between 80 B. C., and A. D. 69. He discusses the various Roman gods and their spheres of activity, the manner and kinds of prayer, forms of sacrifice,...
Paganism in the Roman Empire
| Author | Ramsay MacMullen |
| ISBN | 0300029845 |
“MacMullen…has published several books in recent years which establish him, rightfully, as a leading social historian of the Roman Empire. The current volume exhibits many of the characteristics of its predecessors: the presentation of novel, revisionist points of view; discrete set pieces...
Religio Romana Handbook (Modern Roman Living Series 1)
| Author | L. Vitellius Triarius |
RE-RELEASE: 2ND EDITION
The Religio Romana Handbook: A Guide for the Modern Practitioner, 2nd Edition, is the first volume in the series, “The Modern Roman Living Series,” by Lucius Vitellius Triarius. It is a guide for the practitioner of the cultus deorum Romanum, the ancient Roman...
| Author | Valerie M. Warrior |
| ISBN | 0521532124 |
This book provides an introduction to the religion and religious practices of ancient Rome. Examining sites that are familiar to many modern tourists, Valerie Warrior avoids imposing a modern perspective on the topic by using the testimony of the ancient Romans to describe traditional Roman religion....
History of Rome, Volume 5 of 14: Books 21-22
Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at or near Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BCE; he may have lived mostly in Rome but died at Patavium, in 12 or 17 CE.
Livy's only extant work is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BCE. Of its 142 books, we have just 35,...
