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  1. Lecture I - Introductory

    56:10

  2. Lecture II - On the Threshold of Religion: Survivals

    37:17

  3. Lecture III - On the Threshold of Religion: Magic

    35:50

  4. Lecture IV - The Religion of the Family

    43:42

  5. Lecture V - The Calendar of Numa

    43:37

  6. Lecture VI - The Divine Objects of Worship

    49:32

  7. Lecture VII - The Deities of the Earliest Religion: General Characteristics

    42:22

  8. Lecture VIII - Ritual of the Ius Divinum

    58:19

  9. Lecture IX - Ritual (Continued)

    46:17

  10. Lecture X - First Arrival of New Cults in Rome

    48:32

  11. Lecture XI - Contact of the Old and New in Religion

    46:32

  12. Lecture XII - The Pontifices and Secularisation of Religion

    36:38

  13. Lecture XIII - The Augurs and the Art of Divination

    36:20

  14. Lecture XIV - The Hannibalic War

    40:50

  15. Lecture XV - After the Hannibalic War

    46:52

  16. Section XVI - Greek Philosophy and Roman Religion

    36:42

  17. Lecture XVII - Mysticism - Ideas of a Future Life

    39:10

  18. Lecture XVIII - Religious Feelings in the Poems of Virgil

    55:00

  19. Lecture XIX - The Augustan Revival

    48:21

  20. Lecture XX - Conclusion

    35:17

  21. Appendix I - On the Use of Huts or Booths in Religious Ritual

    10:41

  22. Appendix II - Professor Deubner's Theory of the Lupercalia

    5:51

  23. Appendix III - The Pairs of Deities in Gellius xiii 23

    12:12

  24. Appendix IV - Ius and Fas

    7:22

  25. Appendix V - The Worship of Sacred Utensils

    2:57

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Between 1909 and 1910 Fowler delivered twenty Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh University, and this 1911 volume is their published form: a survey of Roman religion from its earliest traces down to the settlement under Augustus. The first series reconstructs the old system from the inside, working through survivals and magic, the worship of the household, the calendar attributed to Numa, the ritual of the ius divinum, and the sense of divinity carried in words like numen. The second turns to what arrived from outside and what wore away: new cults, the augurs and divination, the Hannibalic War, Greek philosophy, then Virgil and the Augustan revival. Fowler reads numen as a diffuse animistic force, an interpretation later scholars rejected, though the lectures remain a common starting point, written by a tutor who spent nearly forty years teaching Roman history at Oxford.

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W. Warde Fowler

William Warde Fowler (1847-1921) was an English classical historian who spent almost his entire career at Lincoln College, Oxford, elected fellow in 1872, tutor from 1873 to 1910, and sub-rector from 1881 to 1906.

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First published
1911
Reading time
About 14 hours
Pages
443
Language
English
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