Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy: A Contextual Approach to Religious Aspects of Rural Society After the Roman ConquestThis rigorously researched study sheds new light on the religious structures and rituals of the Italic tribes from 400 to 100 BC. Citing literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence from central and southern Italy, including a case study on the Samnite Temple of San Giovanni in Galdo, the author investigates the fluctuating function of these cult places in and among the non-Roman Italic communities, before and after the establishment of Roman rule. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Ideas on Cultural Change | 9 |
2 Religious Romanisation and the Fate of Italic Rural Sanctuaries | 17 |
The Sacred Construction of Community and Architectural Forms | 35 |
Three Models | 53 |
Contextualising the Samnite Sanctuary of S Giovanni in Galdo Colle Rimontato CB | 79 |
6 Roman Sacred landscapes? The PagusVicus System Revised | 107 |
Pagi Vici and Sanctuaries | 123 |
8 Roman Ritual in the Italian Countryside? The Paganalia and the Lustratio Pagi | 171 |
9 Roman Ritual in the Italian Countryside? The Compitalia and the Shrines of the Lares Compitales | 187 |
10 Conclusions | 213 |
Abbreviations | 223 |
Bibliography | 227 |
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