The Ludi Saeculares

Author : Jussi Rantala
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351970380
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ludi Saeculares of Septimius Severus written by Jussi Rantala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph to examine in detail the Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) of Septimius Severus and argues that the games represented a radical shift from Antonine imperial ideology. To garner popular support and to legitimise his power, Severus conducted an intensive propaganda campaign, but how did he use the ludi to strengthen his power, and what were the messages he conveyed through them? The central theme is ritual, and the idea of ritual as a process that builds collective identity. The games symbolised the new Severan political and social vision and they embodied the idea of Roman identity and the image of Roman society which the emperor wished to promote. The programme of the games was recorded in a stone inscription and this text is analysed in detail, translated into English and contextualised in the socio-political aims of Septimius Severus.

Author : Shannan Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ludi Saeculares written by Shannan Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Denis Feeney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521559218
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Religion at Rome written by Denis Feeney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent reevaluations of Roman religion by ancient historians have stressed the vitality and creativity of the Romans' religious system throughout its long history of continual adaptation to new challenges. Capitalising on these insights, Denis Feeney argues that Roman literature was not an artificial or parasitic irrelevance in this context, but an important element of the dynamic religious culture, with its own status as another form of religious knowledge. Since Roman culture, both literary and religious, was so thoroughly Hellenised, the book also makes a case for a reconsideration of the traditional antitheses between Greek and Roman literature and religion, arguing against Hellenocentric prejudices and in favour of a more creative model of cultural interaction.

Author : Susan Christine Bilynskyj Dunning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Ludi Saeculares from the Republic to Empire written by Susan Christine Bilynskyj Dunning and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Forsythe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136314423
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time in Roman Religion written by Gary Forsythe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is a major subfield of ancient history and classical studies, and Roman religion in particular is usually studied today by experts in two rather distinct halves: the religion of the Roman Republic, covering the fifth through first centuries B.C.; and the religious diversity of the Roman Empire, spanning the first four centuries of our era. In Time in Roman Religion, author Gary Forsythe examines both the religious history of the Republic and the religious history of the Empire. These six studies are unified by the important role played by various concepts of time in Roman religious thought and practice. Previous modern studies of early Roman religion in Republican times have discussed how the placement of religious ceremonies in the calendar was determined by their relevance to agricultural or military patterns of early Roman life, but modern scholars have failed to recognize that many aspects of Roman religious thought and behavior in later times were also preconditioned or even substantially influenced by concepts of time basic to earlier Roman religious history. This book is not a comprehensive survey of all major aspects of Roman religious history spanning one thousand years. Rather, it is a collection of six studies that are bound together by a single analytical theme: namely, time. Yet, in the process of delving into these six different topics the study surveys a large portion of Roman religious history in a representative fashion, from earliest times to the end of the ancient world and the triumph of Christianity.

Author : Michael C. J. Putnam
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300130457
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horace's "Carmen Saeculare" written by Michael C. J. Putnam and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divThis is the first book devoted to Horace’s Carmen Saeculare, a poem commissioned by Roman emperor Augustus in 17 B.C.E. for choral performance at the Ludi Saeculares, the Secular Games. The poem is the first fully preserved Latin hymn whose circumstances of presentation are known, and it is the only lyric of Horace we can be certain was first presented orally. Michael C. J. Putnam offers a close and sensitive reading of this hymn, shedding new light on the richness and virtuosity of its poetry, on the many sources Horace drew on, and on the poem’s power and significance as a public ritual. A rich and compelling work, this poem is a masterpiece, Putnam shows, and it represents a crucial link in the development of Rome’s outstanding lyric poet./DIV

Author : Hans-Christian Günther
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004241965
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brill's Companion to Horace written by Hans-Christian Günther and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume centres on a detailed analysis of the whole corpus of Horace’s work by Edward Courtney (Satires), Elaine Fantham (Epistles I and Odes IV), Hans-Christian Günther (Epodes, Odes I – III, Carmen Saeculare and Epistles II) and Tobias Reinhardt (Ars Poetica). The latter is preceeded by a detailed account of Horace’s life and work in general by H.-C. Günther. Two appendices on the transmission of the text (E. Courtney) and style and metre (Peter Knox) conclude the volume. It is aimed at students and scholars of classical and modern literature who seek comprehensive orientation on all aspects of Horace’s work. All quotations from Latin and Greek are translated.

Author : John F. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521516839
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets written by John F. Miller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive treatment of the reflections by Augustan poets on Apollo as an imperial icon.

Author : Graham Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912667475
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imperial Legitimation written by Graham Barker and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study of the iconography of the Golden Age Myth on Roman Imperial coinage of the Third Century AD, which started as a master's dissertation, also includes all Roman coins that have the Saecular Games types, down to 300 AD. The first study of its kind, it also gives a reconstruction of the Games and appendices with texts from well-known classical authors.

Author : Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pagan and Christian Rome written by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: