CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Rex Sacrorum, Vestal Virgin, Isola Sacra
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Lecture 6 [lecture 5 notes after midterm in notebook] What are the characteristics of religious practices, beliefs, and feelings among the. May have lots of different shrines in your house average statuenumber per house in. Mercury, hercules, venus, minerva, all very common household gods there were certain times when you honoured one god or another everyone had certain relationships with certain gods. [graph] typical gods (jupiter, juno, minerva), and then more specific gods, but they weren"t overly popular (fortuna isis and isis) Household shrines at pompeii two statues found in-situ (rare) Pg 103 in textbook paintings on back of wall; House tombs, isola sacra tombs where there were public festivals for commemoration for the dead. Vestal virgins mothers of rome, so they do the public version of the private ritual. St. augustine quotes seneca the younger (bnp #9. 5d) Performers, lively and public, lots going on. Acknowledges strangeness of actions, but we understand it so it"s okay.
