Cult places and cultural change in Republican Italy
Subtitle: a contextual approach to religious aspects of rural society after the Roman conquest
By: Tesse D. Stek
Contributors: ebrary, Inc
Series: Amsterdam archaeological studies -- 14
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9789089641779; 9789048511433
Subjects: Religion; Antiquities; History
Description: Summary: This study throws new light on the Roman impact on Italic religious structures in the last four centuries BC and, more generally, on the complex processes of change and accommodation set in motion by the Roman expansion in Italy. Cult places had a pivotal function among the various 'Italic' tribes known to us from the ancient sources, which had been gradually conquered and subsequently controlled by Rome. Through an analysis of archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence from rural cult places in Central and Southern Italy including a case study on the Samnite temple of San Giovanni in Galdo, the authors investigate the fluctuating function of cult places in among the non-Roman Italic communities, before and after the establishment of Roman rule.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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