CLA231H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Pontifex Maximus, Pater Familias, Roman Senate
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Important dates: (1) gods (2) public religion (3) private and domestic religion (4) priests and other religious experts. Important people: (a) pontifices (pontifex maximus) (b) augurs (c) haruspices (singular haruspex) (d) vestal virgins (5) imperial cult (6) mystery cults (a) isis (b) mithras. Robigo --goddess a personification of disease that inflicted plants, had power to wipe out entire crop and family"s fortunes along with it. There was no one system or institution in the roman world that combined all the aspects of religion. Its (cid:374)ot that ro(cid:373)a(cid:374)s did(cid:374)"t (cid:272)are a(cid:271)out (cid:373)oralit(cid:455), it just (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t tied to their stories of the gods. Branch of theology not died close to religious practises. No religio(cid:374) as (cid:449)e thi(cid:374)k of it (cid:271)ut there (cid:449)ere thi(cid:374)gs i(cid:374) their so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) that (cid:449)e (cid:272)lassif(cid:455) as religious i(cid:374) (cid:374)ature (1) gods. Believed in the existence of many gods, both known and unknown. A(cid:374)d i(cid:374) earliest periods, see(cid:373)s their gods did(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a (cid:449)ell de(cid:448)eloped (cid:272)hara(cid:272)ter.
