Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy

This collection explores the multifaceted nature of the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient Italy. It examines Italic, Etruscan and Latin deities in context and in the material remains, and also in the Greco-Roman written record and later scholarship which drew on these texts.

Autorentext

Edward Bispham teaches Ancient History at Brasenose and St Anne's Colleges, and is a lecturer in the Faculty of Classics of the University of Oxford, UK. He has worked and published extensively on the history of Pre-Roman and Roman Italy. He edited (with Christopher Smith) Religion in Archaic and Republican Rome and Italy: Evidence and Experience (2000).

** Daniele Miano* is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Junior Research Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Social and Cultural Study of the University of Erfurt, Germany. He published a number of works on polytheism in ancient Italy, including Fortuna: Deity and Concept in Archaic and Republican Italy* (2018).

Inhalt

Preface Introduction 1. Italic Ceres? 2. In the Name of Diana: Feronia and other Italic Goddesses in their Sacred Landscape 3. Getting to Know Diana 4. Beyond Rome: the Cult of Vesta in Latium 5. The God Castor at Rome: Form, Function and Cult 6. Loufir/Liber at the Crossroads of Religious Cultures in Pompeii (third-second centuries BC) 7. Suri et al.: A 'Chthonic' Etruscan face of Apollon? 8. Honouring Honos 9. From Saviours to Salvation: Salus in Republican Italy