Cult places and cultural change in Republican Italy a contextual approach to religious aspects of rural society after the Roman conquest
This study throws new light on the Roman impact on Italic religious structures in the last four centuries BC and, more generally, on the complex processes of change and accommodation set in motion by the Roman expansion in Italy. Cult places had a pivotal function among the various 'Italic'...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
©2009, 2009
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| Series: | Amsterdam Archaeological Studies
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This study throws new light on the Roman impact on Italic religious structures in the last four centuries BC and, more generally, on the complex processes of change and accommodation set in motion by the Roman expansion in Italy. Cult places had a pivotal function among the various 'Italic' tribes known to us from the ancient sources, which had been gradually conquered and subsequently controlled by Rome. Through an analysis of archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence from rural cult places in Central and Southern Italy including a case study on the Samnite temple of San Giovanni in Galdo, the author investigates the fluctuating function of cult places in among the non-Roman Italic communities, before and after the establishment of Roman rule |
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| Physical Description: | x, 263 pages illustrations, maps, plans |
| ISBN: | 6612634170 9786612634178 1282634178 9089641777 9789089641779 |