CLASSIC 20 Lecture 25: Lecture 25 - Before Christianity
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Ovid: says you can lie as much as you want if it lets you win a girl, advises people to use the gods for your own purpose b. i. Gods are convenient to have, so let us concede their existence, Bring to their obsolete shrine plenty of incense and wine . Augustus: sought to revive ancient traditions and rituals, boasts that he restored 82 temples and shrines, does his public revival of religion actually have an effect on people? c. i. Livy and the gods: speech of camillus (end of book five, respect of the gods, sacred spaces, shrines and priests, speaking more to his own readers. Philosophy: provided answers to an intellectual elite. Stars and foreign cults: appealed most to common people. Astrology: study of the stars a serious business, astrology: telling of the stars , astronomy: law of the stars , the two words were considered interchangeable to the romans d. i.
