CLA204H1 Lecture : March 30 Lecture
Document Summary
4thc bce greek arts traveled to i taly after the fall of athens: in general: Little is historical; mostly intended to elicit support for social practices. Not many roots in history, more propaganda, aeneid; reinforce laws/ideas/culture of rome: numina/sacrificium. Native i talian divinities were personifications and strictly limited to their functions. A numen (nuo nod or give assent); inhabits a thing and makes something happen, good or bad. Sacrificium was a legal transfer into the ownership of the numen" the holder of the thing inhabited and the sacrificer. Janus; god with two faces, of passage, marked boundaries and bridges; had a temple in the roman forum. Door open when there was war, closed when there was peace unique god: roman pantheon. Jupiter (jove): sky god, equivalent of zeus (father sky)- more like fate to the romans; his word is reality, future of rome. Juno: head of gods, equivalent of hera; oversee female divinities of her household.
