The Religious Experience of the Roman People
From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
The Religious Experience of the Roman People, published in 1911, consists of the Gifford Lectures that W. Warde Fowler delivered at Edinburgh in 1909 and 1910. In twenty lectures he traces the religion of Rome from the earliest animistic beliefs of the household and farm through the calendar of festivals, the priesthoods and the formalism of the state cult, the arrival of Greek gods and Greek philosophy, the religious crisis of the late Republic, and the revival under Augustus. Fowler, an Oxford tutor and a countryman, is sympathetic to the practical piety of the early Romans and attentive to how it decayed. Written for a general audience, the lectures have notes for students at the end of each. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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