Author

Contributions

  • Antonia Nevill (Translator) - Contributor

Publication

1997 - Blackwell Publishing Limited

Language

English

Word Count

104,000 words, Guess

Page Count

416 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • LCCBL805.T8713 1996

Description

About the multiplicity of gods and religions that characterized the Roman world before Constantine. It was not the noble gods such as Jove, Apollo and Diana, who were crucial to the lives of the common people in the empire, bur gods of an altogether more earthly, earth level, whose rituals and observances may now seem bizarre.

First Sentence

THE Tyrian Melqart, who became the Hercules of the Cattle Market in the river port of Rome, perhaps made his first entry into the Urbs in the company of Phoenician traders.

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