The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden : : Religion at the Roman Street Corner / / Harriet I. Flower.
The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dan...
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Flower, Harriet I., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden : Religion at the Roman Street Corner / Harriet I. Flower. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017] ©2018 1 online resource (416 p.) : 24 color illus. 46 halftones. 26 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- I. Lar(es) / Genius and Juno / Snake(s) -- II. Shrines for Lares in Rome -- III. Celebrating Lares -- IV. Augustus and Lares Augusti -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index -- IMAGE CREDITS restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. These shrines were maintained primarily by ordinary Romans, and often by slaves and freedmen, for whom the lares cult provided a unique public leadership role. In this comprehensive and richly illustrated book, the first to focus on the lares, Harriet Flower offers a strikingly original account of these gods and a new way of understanding the lived experience of everyday Roman religion.Weaving together a wide range of evidence, Flower sets forth a new interpretation of the much-disputed nature of the lares. She makes the case that they are not spirits of the dead, as many have argued, but rather benevolent protectors—gods of place, especially the household and the neighborhood, and of travel. She examines the rituals honoring the lares, their cult sites, and their iconography, as well as the meaning of the snakes often depicted alongside lares in paintings of gardens. She also looks at Compitalia, a popular midwinter neighborhood festival in honor of the lares, and describes how its politics played a key role in Rome’s increasing violence in the 60s and 50s BC, as well as in the efforts of Augustus to reach out to ordinary people living in the city’s local neighborhoods.A reconsideration of seemingly humble gods that were central to the religious world of the Romans, this is also the first major account of the full range of lares worship in the homes, neighborhoods, and temples of ancient Rome.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Cults Rome. Lares. Serpents Religious aspects. Snakes Religious aspects. HISTORY / Ancient / Rome. bisacsh Augustus. Compitalia. Pompeii. Roman gods. Roman religion. Rome. Theodosian Code. antiquity. benevolent protectors. compital shrines. crossroads shrines. cult sites. cults. deities. iconography. lares. mythology. public places. religious reform. rituals. shrines. snakes. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110543322 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606591 print 9780691175003 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400888016?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400888016 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400888016/original |
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