CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rhea Silvia, Omen, Capitoline Hill
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Important vocabulary: cultus (from colere) - what do you mean by cult", from verb meaning to take care/attend to", a group to worship certain deities, e. g. If you are not welcome could not transgress walls of city. Lecture 2 - continuity and innovation in roman religion: votives were given by individuals - for vows, exchanges, etc, votives represent the ailment healed. 7 hills: quirinal hill, virinal hill, capitoline hill, palatine hill, oldest cults and temples, more focus on augustus, aventine hill, caelian hill, esquiline hill. Servian wall: sacred, supposedly built by romulus, extended when territory increased, religious boundaries increased with regional, river tiber, becomes god in own right. Southern part - magna graecia - great greece: close relationship with greeks, greek colonization in southern italy, contact between the two, traditional founding dates vs colonization, greeks highly active in this area - romans saw this throughout.
