Divine Institutions
Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic
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- Hardcover
344 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2021
Summary
How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman Republic
Many narrative histories of Rome’s transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social change. Divine Institutions places religion at the heart of this transformation, showing how religious ritual and observance held the Roman Republic together during the fourth and third centuries BCE, a period when the Roman stat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691168678 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691168679 |
| Author: | Dan-el Padilla Peralta |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 718g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm |
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“Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association”
“Finalist for the Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion”“Winner of the CAMWS First Book Award, Classical Association of the Middle West and South”“Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, American Historical Association”“Powerful… . Divine Institutions is impressively wide-ranging, covering everything from ancient enslavement to pilgrimage, techniques of healing to fire-management… . An essential read.”—Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement “
This book is, simply, a wonderful work of ancient history… . [A] seminal contribution not just to the study of the Roman Republic, but to the writing of ancient history more generally.
”—James Corke-Webster, Greece & Rome“An indispensable read for anyone interested in Roman history and ancient religion.”—Kresimir Vukovic, Religious Studies ReviewAbout The Author
Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Dan-el Padilla Peralta is associate professor of classics at Princeton University. He is the author of Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League and the coeditor of Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation. Twitter @platanoclassics
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