The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (685 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691175004 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic. Flower is professor of classics at Princeton University. . Harriet I. She is the author of Roman Republics (Princeton), The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture, and Ancestor Masks and Aristocratic Power in Roman Culture
She makes the case that they are not spirits of the dead, as many have argued, but rather benevolent protectorsgods of place, especially the household and the neighborhood, and of travel. The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. 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. Thro
Harriet Flower has yet again identified a neglected aspect of Roman life and produced a definitive treatment that illuminates an extraordinary range of further areas."--Catherine Steel, University of Glasgow. Above all, it is original and convincing in stressing the ubiquitous and pervading character of the cult of the lares in Rome and a number of other places in the Roman world."--Jörg Rüpke, University of Erfurt, Germany"This important book provides a comprehensive treatment of the lares, the ancient Roman household gods, in all the contexts in which they are well-documented, revealing them to be much more significant than conventionally understood. From the Back Cover"Harriet Flower's book is important for under