Written by one of the world's leading scholars of the Roman world, ""An Introduction to Roman Religion offers students a complete portrait of religion in Rome during the late republic and early empire. It draws on the latest findings in archaeology and history to explain the meanings of rituals, rites, auspices, and oracles, to describe the uses of temples and sacred ground, and to evoke the daily patterns of religious life and observance within the city of Rome and its environs. The text is usefully organized around major themes, such as the origins of Roman religion, the importance of the religious calendar, the structure of religious space, the forms of religious services and rituals, and the gods, priests, and core theologies that shaped religious observance. In addition to its clear and accessible presentation, ""Roman Religion includes quotations from primary sources, a chronology of religious and historical events from 750 BC to AD 494, a full glossary, and an annotated guide to further reading.

An Introduction to Roman Religion

SCHEID, JOHN

Religion & Spirituality

Indiana University Press

Product Description 
A revealing history of ancient Rome, told through visually stunning, state-of-the-art infographics. 
Ancient Rome: Infographics tells the story of a great empire through graphic design. This book offers readers a new way to conceptualize ancient Rome from the birth of the empire to the Punic Wars, and from the Roman political system to the role of women, slaves, and public entertainment. Cleverly designed infographics bring alive the complex history and structure of this ancient empire for the general reader while still satisfying demands for the rigorous approach of a historian. 
Drawing on the best international sources, this volume charts ancient Rome’s social, political, and cultural histories with breathtaking data visualizations. The result is an extraordinary new approach to Rome’s history, and is sure to appeal to those looking for an overview of the period and to history buffs alike. Illustrated in color throughout 
 About the Author 
Nicolas Guillerat was trained as a data designer and graphic artist.\nJohn Scheid is the author of 
An Introduction to Roman Religion, 
The Craft of Zeus, and 
The Gods, the State, and the Individual.

Ancient Rome: Infographics

Arts & Photography

Guillerat, Nicolas

Graphic Design

Thames&Hudson

The fundamental gesture of weaving in The Craft of Zeus is the interlacing of warp and woof described by Plato in The Statesman--an interweaving signifying the union of opposites. From rituals symbolizing--even fabricating--the cohesion of society to those proposed by oracles as a means of propitiating fortune; from the erotic and marital significance of weaving and the woven robe to the use of weaving as a figure for language and the fabric of the text, this lively and lucid book defines the logic of one of the central concepts in Greek and Roman thought--a concept that has persisted, woof and warp crossing again and again, as the fabric of human history has unfolded.

The Craft of Zeus: Myths of Weaving and Fabric (Revealing Antiquity)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Harvard University Press

The fundamental gesture of weaving in The Craft of Zeus is the interlacing of warp and woof described by Plato in The Statesman--an interweaving signifying the union of opposites. From rituals symbolizing--even fabricating--the cohesion of society to those proposed by oracles as a means of propitiating fortune; from the erotic and marital significance of weaving and the woven robe to the use of weaving as a figure for language and the fabric of the text, this lively and lucid book defines the logic of one of the central concepts in Greek and Roman thought--a concept that has persisted, woof and warp crossing again and again, as the fabric of human history has unfolded.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Svenbro, Jesper

Crafts & Hobbies

Edinburgh University Press

Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine using technical terms widely employed to describe relations with other humans. Indeed, there was not even a word in classical Latin that corresponds to the English word religion.
In The Gods, the State, and the Individual, John Scheid confronts these and other challenges directly. If Roman religious practice has long been dismissed as a cynical or naïve system of borrowed structures unmarked by any true piety, Scheid contends that this is the result of a misplaced expectation that the basis of religion lies in an individual's personal and revelatory relationship with his or her god. He argues that when viewed in the light of secular history as opposed to Christian theology, Roman religion emerges as a legitimate phenomenon in which rituals, both public and private, enforced a sense of communal, civic, and state identity.
Since the 1970s, Scheid has been one of the most influential figures reshaping scholarly understanding of ancient Roman religion. The Gods, the State, and the Individual presents a translation of Scheid's work that chronicles the development of his field-changing scholarship.

The Gods, the State, and the Individual: Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome (Empire and After)

University of Pennsylvania Press

The organizational format, case selection, notes, questions, and problems in the first edition of this casebook proved extremely popular with first-year students. This revised second edition replaces some cases and adds new notes and problems designed to stimulate student discussion as well as update the text with new developments, including selected proposed changes in the Uniform Commercial Code and novel issues involving electronic information transfer. The authors continue to embrace an approach that invites students to bridge theory and practice in their exploration of contract law. To that end, the casebook's notes and problems address transactional and drafting considerations as well as law practice and litigation questions.

Contract Law and Practice, Revised

Cochran, Rebecca

Long, Doris

Nye, Robert

Berendt, Gerald

Business

Carolina Academic Press

This three-hole punched, alternative loose-leaf version of the hardbound book is printed on 8 ½ x 11 inch paper with wider margins and the same pagination — offered at a substantially lower price than the hardbound book. 
The organizational format, case selection, notes, questions, and problems in the first edition of this casebook proved extremely popular with first-year students. This revised second edition replaces some cases and adds new notes and problems designed to stimulate student discussion as well as update the text with new developments, including selected proposed changes in the Uniform Commercial Code and novel issues involving electronic information transfer. The authors continue to embrace an approach that invites students to bridge theory and practice in their exploration of contract law. To that end, the casebook's notes and problems address transactional and drafting considerations as well as law practice and litigation questions.

In very good condition. This series of decouverte gallimard are always excellent reading and really give an excellent background of historical events. This one is no exception. Highly recommended.

Nos ancêtres les Romains

Hanoune, Roger

Reference

Gallimard]

Quelques jours apres la mort d'Auguste, on fit porter dans la curie quatre rouleaux scelles qu'Auguste avait deposes, d'apres Suetone, aupres des Vestales. Le premier contenait son testament prive, le deuxieme donnait les ordres relatifs a ses funerailles, tandis que le troisieme developpait la situation dans laquelle il avait laisse l'Empire. Sur le quatrieme se trouvaient les Res Gestae qui rappelaient tout ce que l'empereur avait fait pour le peuple romain. Auguste souhaitait que ses Res Gestae soient gravees sur deux steles de bronze a proximite de son mausolee. Rien n'est moins sur car les deux inscriptions de Rome ont disparu et seules ont ete conservees des copies envoyees dans les Provinces d'Asie Mineure. Auguste y relate ses exploits quand il s'appelait encore Octave, comment a 19 ans a peine il leva une armee et eut raison de Marc-Antoine, comment il etendit la puissance romaine, et " restaura la Republique " en devenant empereur. Malgre le style aride et factuel impose par l'inscription, les Res Gestaesont pour nous un document precieux, tant par les informations historiques qui y sont contenues que par le portrait que le grand homme peint de lui-meme. Notre edition presente en un volume les Res Gestae divi Augusti ou Hauts Faits du divin Auguste et propose outre le texte latin et sa traduction, la version grecque figurant dans les copies d'Ankara, d'Antioche et d'Apollonia. L'introduction, veritable somme issue des recherches de John Scheid offre toutes les informations necessaires a la bonne intelligence du texte ainsi qu'un expose complet des diverses interpretations et discussions auxquelles il a donne lieu. Elle est en outre assortie d'un plan permettant de circuler aisement dans le recit, ainsi que d'une bibliographie. Un riche commentaire, en fin de volume, eclaire le texte. L'ouvrage est enrichi d'un Index des mots latins, d'un Index des mots grecs ainsi que d'illustrations.

Res gestae divi Augusti: Hauts faits du divin Auguste (Collection Des Universites De France) (French and Latin Edition)

Les Belles Lettres

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An Introduction to Roman Religion

Ancient Rome: Infographics

The Craft of Zeus: Myths of Weaving and Fabric (Revealing Antiquity)

The Craft of Zeus: Myths of Weaving and Fabric (Revealing Antiquity)

An Introduction to Roman Religion

The Gods, the State, and the Individual: Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome (Empire and After)

Contract Law and Practice, Revised

Contract Law and Practice, Revised

Nos ancêtres les Romains

Res gestae divi Augusti: Hauts faits du divin Auguste (Collection Des Universites De France) (French and Latin Edition)