CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lustratio, Lightning, Dea Dia

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10 Oct 2012
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Some religion can trace back to a founder, this is not always so in roman religion ing religion. Senate often passed decrees to allow a cult for the benefits of the polis. Personal, belief and systems of ethics (listed above) is a sticky issue for roman religion. Into the middle ages people stopped thinking on roman religion. Pattern between sacrifice and gender (female animals for female deities, vice versa) - higher sta- tus, e. g. , pater, allowed for a different sacrifice. Why expiatory rite: communication with dea dia, at the beginning we"re given precise information (date, where, who, brothers are in a grove of dea dia, they make sacrifice because the trees were struck and injured by non-human sources. Lecture 1 - religion in the roman world. Was the iron unclean": lustratio - purify, cleaning, removing stain, etc. Involves people going around perimeter: roman religion very interested in space, redefined a particular area.

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