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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sacrifice" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sacrifice"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Sacrifice</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sacrifice-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Animal_sacrifice" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Animal_sacrifice"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2.1</span> <span>Animal sacrifice</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Animal_sacrifice-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Human_sacrifice" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Human_sacrifice"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2.2</span> <span>Human sacrifice</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Human_sacrifice-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Domestic_and_private_cult" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Domestic_and_private_cult"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Domestic and private cult</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Domestic_and_private_cult-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religio_and_the_state" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religio_and_the_state"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span><i>Religio</i> and the state</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Religio_and_the_state-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle <i>Religio</i> and the state subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Religio_and_the_state-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li 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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Haruspicy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2.1</span> <span>Haruspicy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Haruspicy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Omens_and_prodigies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Omens_and_prodigies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2.2</span> <span>Omens and prodigies</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Omens_and_prodigies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mystery_religions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mystery_religions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Mystery religions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mystery_religions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Funerals_and_the_afterlife" 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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion_and_politics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.1</span> <span>Religion and politics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion_and_politics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Early_Republic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Early_Republic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.2</span> <span>Early Republic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Early_Republic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Later_Republic_to_Principate" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Later_Republic_to_Principate"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.3</span> <span>Later Republic to Principate</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Later_Republic_to_Principate-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Roman_Empire" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Roman_Empire"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.4</span> <span>Roman Empire</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Roman_Empire-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Eastern_Influence" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Eastern_Influence"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.4.1</span> <span>Eastern Influence</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Eastern_Influence-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Absorption_of_Cults" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Absorption_of_Cults"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13.4.2</span> <span>Absorption of Cults</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Absorption_of_Cults-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Imperial_cult" 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data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B6%D1%8B%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%80%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B3%D1%96%D1%8F" title="Старажытнарымская рэлігія – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Старажытнарымская рэлігія" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%B2_%D0%94%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BC" title="Религия в Древен Рим – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Религия в Древен Рим" data-language-autonym="Български" 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Religion" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanarooma_usund" title="Vanarooma usund – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Vanarooma usund" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%98%CF%81%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BD_%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%A1%CF%8E%CE%BC%CE%B7" title="Θρησκεία στην αρχαία Ρώμη – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Θρησκεία στην αρχαία Ρώμη" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C" title="دین رومی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دین رومی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_de_la_Rome_antique" title="Religion de la Rome antique – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Religion de la Rome antique" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relixi%C3%B3n_da_Roma_antiga" title="Relixión da Roma antiga – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Relixión da Roma antiga" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B3%A0%EB%8C%80_%EB%A1%9C%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%98_%EC%A2%85%EA%B5%90" title="고대 로마의 종교 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="고대 로마의 종교" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%82_%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE" title="प्राचीन रोम में धर्म – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="प्राचीन रोम में धर्म" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starorimska_religija" title="Starorimska religija – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Starorimska religija" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agama_di_Romawi_Kuno" title="Agama di Romawi Kuno – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Agama di Romawi Kuno" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Roma_antique" title="Religion in Roma antique – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Religion in Roma antique" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religione_romana" title="Religione romana – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Religione romana" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%AA_%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%90_%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94" title="דת רומא העתיקה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="דת רומא העתיקה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio_Romana" title="Religio Romana – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Religio Romana" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9imesch_Relioun" title="Réimesch Relioun – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Réimesch Relioun" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senov%C4%97s_Romos_religija" title="Senovės Romos religija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Senovės Romos religija" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relijio_en_Roma_antica" title="Relijio en Roma antica – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Relijio en Roma antica" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingua Franca Nova</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3mai_vall%C3%A1s" title="Római vallás – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Római vallás" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Римска религија – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Римска религија" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agama_di_Rom_kuno" title="Agama di Rom kuno – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Agama di Rom kuno" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeinse_religie" title="Romeinse religie – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Romeinse religie" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romersk_religion" title="Romersk religion – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Romersk religion" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qadimgi_Rimda_din" title="Qadimgi Rimda din – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Qadimgi Rimda din" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85_%D9%88%DA%86_%D9%85%D8%B0%DB%81%D8%A8" title="قدیم روم وچ مذہب – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="قدیم روم وچ مذہب" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religia_staro%C5%BCytnego_Rzymu" title="Religia starożytnego Rzymu – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Religia starożytnego Rzymu" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religi%C3%A3o_na_Roma_Antiga" title="Religião na Roma Antiga – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Religião na Roma Antiga" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religia_%C3%AEn_Roma_antic%C4%83" title="Religia în Roma antică – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Religia în Roma antică" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Римская религия – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Римская религия" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feja_romake" title="Feja romake – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Feja romake" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome" title="Religion in ancient Rome – Simple English" 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data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roomalainen_uskonto" title="Roomalainen uskonto – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Roomalainen uskonto" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romersk_religion" title="Romersk religion – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Romersk religion" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relihiyon_sa_Sinaunang_Roma" title="Relihiyon sa Sinaunang Roma – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Relihiyon sa Sinaunang Roma" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antik_Roma%27da_din" title="Antik Roma'da din – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Antik Roma'da din" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BC%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%B3%D1%96%D1%8F" title="Давньоримська релігія – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Давньоримська релігія" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Roma%2C_Museo_Ara_Pacis_-_Calco_di_Roma_con_Vittoria_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto%2C_30-Mar-2008.jpg/390px-Roma%2C_Museo_Ara_Pacis_-_Calco_di_Roma_con_Vittoria_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto%2C_30-Mar-2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Roma%2C_Museo_Ara_Pacis_-_Calco_di_Roma_con_Vittoria_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto%2C_30-Mar-2008.jpg/520px-Roma%2C_Museo_Ara_Pacis_-_Calco_di_Roma_con_Vittoria_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto%2C_30-Mar-2008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1773" data-file-height="1197" /></a><figcaption>Defaced <i><a href="/wiki/Roma_(goddess)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roma (goddess)">Dea Roma</a></i> holding <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(mythology)" title="Victoria (mythology)">Victory</a> and regarding an altar with a <a href="/wiki/Cornucopia" title="Cornucopia">cornucopia</a> and other offerings, copy of a relief panel from an altar or statue base</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Religion in ancient Rome</b> consisted of varying imperial and provincial religious practices, which were followed both by the people of Rome as well as those who were brought under its rule. </p><p>The Romans thought of themselves as highly religious, and attributed their success as a world power to their collective piety (<span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Pietas" title="Pietas">pietas</a></i></span>) in maintaining <a href="/wiki/Pax_deorum" class="mw-redirect" title="Pax deorum">good relations with the gods</a>. Their <a href="/wiki/Polytheism" title="Polytheism">polytheistic</a> religion is known for having honoured <a href="/wiki/List_of_Roman_deities" title="List of Roman deities">many deities</a>. </p><p>The presence of <a href="/wiki/Magna_Graecia" title="Magna Graecia">Greeks on the Italian peninsula</a> from the beginning of the historical period influenced <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_ancient_Rome" title="Culture of ancient Rome">Roman culture</a>, introducing some religious practices that became fundamental, such as the <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Cult_(religious_practice)" title="Cult (religious practice)">cultus</a></i></span> of <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a>. The Romans looked for common ground between their major gods and those of the Greeks (<span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Interpretatio_graeca" title="Interpretatio graeca">interpretatio graeca</a></i></span>), adapting <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek myths</a> and iconography for Latin literature and <a href="/wiki/Roman_art" title="Roman art">Roman art</a>, as the <a href="/wiki/Etruscans" class="mw-redirect" title="Etruscans">Etruscans</a> had. <a href="/wiki/Etruscan_religion" title="Etruscan religion">Etruscan religion</a> was also a major influence, particularly on the practice of <a href="/wiki/Augury" title="Augury">augury</a>, used by the state to seek the will of the gods. According to <a href="/wiki/Legend" title="Legend">legends</a>, most of Rome's religious institutions could be traced to its <a href="/wiki/Founding_of_Rome" title="Founding of Rome">founders</a>, particularly <a href="/wiki/Numa_Pompilius" title="Numa Pompilius">Numa Pompilius</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Sabine" class="mw-redirect" title="Sabine">Sabine</a> second <a href="/wiki/King_of_Rome" title="King of Rome">king of Rome</a>, who negotiated directly with <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_gods" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Roman gods">the gods</a>. This archaic religion was the foundation of the <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Mos_maiorum" title="Mos maiorum">mos maiorum</a></i></span>, "the way of the ancestors" or simply "tradition", viewed as central to Roman identity. </p><p>Roman religion was practical and contractual, based on the principle of <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Do_ut_des" class="mw-redirect" title="Do ut des">do ut des</a></i></span>, "I give that you might give". Religion depended on knowledge and the <a href="/wiki/Orthopraxy" title="Orthopraxy">correct practice</a> of prayer, rite, and sacrifice, not on faith or dogma, although <a href="/wiki/Latin_literature" title="Latin literature">Latin literature</a> preserves learned speculation on the nature of the divine and its relation to human affairs. Even the most skeptical among Rome's intellectual elite such as <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>, who was an augur, saw religion as a source of social order. As the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a> expanded, migrants to the capital brought their local <a href="/wiki/Cult_(religious_practice)" title="Cult (religious practice)">cults</a>, many of which became popular among Italians. <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> was eventually the most successful of these beliefs, and in 380 became the official <a href="/wiki/State_religion" title="State religion">state religion</a>. </p><p>For ordinary Romans, religion was a part of daily life.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Each home had a household shrine at which prayers and <a href="/wiki/Libation" title="Libation">libations</a> to the family's <a href="/wiki/Household_deity" title="Household deity">domestic deities</a> were offered. Neighbourhood shrines and sacred places such as springs and groves dotted the city.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Roman_calendar" title="Roman calendar">Roman calendar</a> was structured around religious observances. <a href="/wiki/Women_in_Ancient_Rome" class="mw-redirect" title="Women in Ancient Rome">Women</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome" title="Slavery in ancient Rome">slaves</a>, and children all participated in a range of religious activities. Some public rituals could be conducted only by women, and women formed what is perhaps Rome's most famous priesthood, the state-supported <a href="/wiki/Vestal_Virgin" title="Vestal Virgin">Vestals</a>, who tended <a href="/wiki/Sacred_fire_of_Vesta" title="Sacred fire of Vesta">Rome's sacred hearth</a> for centuries, until disbanded under Christian domination. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:August_Labicana_Massimo_Inv56230.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/August_Labicana_Massimo_Inv56230.jpg/170px-August_Labicana_Massimo_Inv56230.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="367" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/August_Labicana_Massimo_Inv56230.jpg/255px-August_Labicana_Massimo_Inv56230.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/August_Labicana_Massimo_Inv56230.jpg/340px-August_Labicana_Massimo_Inv56230.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1275" data-file-height="2754" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a> as Pontifex Maximus <i>(<a href="/wiki/Via_Labicana_Augustus" title="Via Labicana Augustus">Via Labicana Augustus</a>)</i></figcaption></figure> <p>The priesthoods of most state religions were held by members of the <a href="/wiki/Social_class_in_ancient_Rome" title="Social class in ancient Rome">elite classes</a>. There was no principle analogous to <a href="/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state" title="Separation of church and state">separation of church and state</a> in ancient Rome. During the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman Republic</a> (509–27 BC), the same men who were <a href="/wiki/Roman_Magistrates" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Magistrates">elected public officials</a> might also serve as <a href="/wiki/Augur" title="Augur">augurs</a> and <a href="/wiki/College_of_Pontiffs" title="College of Pontiffs">pontiffs</a>. Priests married, raised families, and led politically active lives. <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a> became <a href="/wiki/Pontifex_maximus" title="Pontifex maximus">pontifex maximus</a> before he was elected <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consul</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The augurs read the will of the gods and supervised the marking of boundaries as a reflection of universal order, thus sanctioning Roman <a href="/wiki/Expansionism" title="Expansionism">expansionism</a> and foreign wars as a matter of divine destiny. The <a href="/wiki/Roman_triumph" title="Roman triumph">Roman triumph</a> was at its core a religious procession in which the victorious general displayed his piety and his willingness to serve the public good by dedicating a portion of his spoils to the gods, especially <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jupiter</a>, who embodied just rule. As a result of the <a href="/wiki/Punic_Wars" title="Punic Wars">Punic Wars</a> (264–146 BC), when Rome struggled to establish itself as a dominant power, many new <a href="/wiki/Roman_temple" title="Roman temple">temples</a> were built by magistrates in <a href="/wiki/Votum" title="Votum">fulfillment of a vow</a> to a deity for assuring their military success.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>As the Romans extended their dominance throughout the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a> world, their policy in general was to absorb the deities and cults of other peoples rather than try to eradicate them,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> since they believed that preserving tradition promoted social stability.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One way that Rome incorporated diverse peoples was by supporting their religious heritage, building temples to local deities that framed their theology within the hierarchy of Roman religion. Inscriptions throughout the Empire record the side-by-side worship of local and Roman deities, including dedications made by Romans to local gods.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cybele_Getty_Villa_57.AA.19.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Cybele_Getty_Villa_57.AA.19.jpg/220px-Cybele_Getty_Villa_57.AA.19.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="337" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Cybele_Getty_Villa_57.AA.19.jpg/330px-Cybele_Getty_Villa_57.AA.19.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Cybele_Getty_Villa_57.AA.19.jpg/440px-Cybele_Getty_Villa_57.AA.19.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1784" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Cybele enthroned, with <a href="/wiki/Lion" title="Lion">lion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cornucopia" title="Cornucopia">cornucopia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mural_crown" title="Mural crown">Mural crown</a>. Roman marble, c. 50 AD (<a href="/wiki/Getty_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Getty Museum">Getty Museum</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>By the height of the Empire, numerous <a href="/wiki/Interpretatio_graeca" title="Interpretatio graeca">international deities</a> were cultivated at Rome and had been carried to even the most remote <a href="/wiki/Roman_provinces" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman provinces">provinces</a>, among them <a href="/wiki/Cybele" title="Cybele">Cybele</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isis" title="Isis">Isis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Epona" title="Epona">Epona</a>, and gods of <a href="/wiki/Monism" title="Monism">solar monism</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Mithras" class="mw-redirect" title="Mithras">Mithras</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sol_Invictus" title="Sol Invictus">Sol Invictus</a>, found as far north as <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Roman Britain</a>. Foreign religions increasingly attracted devotees among Romans, who increasingly had ancestry from elsewhere in the Empire. Imported <a href="/wiki/Mystery_religions" class="mw-redirect" title="Mystery religions">mystery religions</a>, which offered initiates salvation in the afterlife, were a matter of personal choice for an individual, practiced in addition to carrying on one's <a href="/wiki/Sacra_gentilicia" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacra gentilicia">family rites</a> and participating in public religion. The mysteries, however, involved exclusive oaths and secrecy, conditions that conservative Romans viewed with suspicion as characteristic of "<a href="/wiki/Magic_in_the_Greco-Roman_world" title="Magic in the Greco-Roman world">magic</a>", conspiratorial (<i>coniuratio</i>), or subversive activity. Sporadic and sometimes brutal attempts were made to suppress religionists who seemed to threaten traditional morality and unity, as with the <a href="/wiki/Roman_senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman senate">Senate</a>'s efforts to <a href="/wiki/Senatus_consultum_de_Bacchanalibus" title="Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus">restrict the Bacchanals</a> in 186 BC. Because Romans had never been obligated to cultivate one god or one cult only, <a href="/wiki/Religious_tolerance" title="Religious tolerance">religious tolerance</a> was not an issue in the sense that it is for <a href="/wiki/Monotheism" title="Monotheism">monotheistic</a> systems.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The monotheistic rigor of <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a> posed difficulties for Roman policy that led at times to compromise and the granting of special exemptions, but sometimes to intractable conflict. For example, religious disputes helped cause the <a href="/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War" title="First Jewish–Roman War">First Jewish–Roman War</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt" title="Bar Kokhba revolt">Bar Kokhba revolt</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In the wake of the <a href="/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Roman_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Collapse of the Roman Republic">Republic's collapse</a>, state religion had adapted to support the new <a href="/wiki/Roman_emperor" title="Roman emperor">regime of the emperors</a>. <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a>, the first Roman emperor, justified the novelty of one-man rule with a vast program of religious revivalism and reform. <a href="/wiki/Votum#Public_vota" title="Votum">Public vows</a> formerly made for the security of the republic now were directed at the well-being of the emperor. So-called "emperor worship" expanded on a grand scale the traditional Roman <a href="/wiki/Roman_funerals_and_burial" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman funerals and burial">veneration of the ancestral dead</a> and of the <i><a href="/wiki/Genius_(mythology)" title="Genius (mythology)">Genius</a></i>, the divine <a href="/wiki/Tutelary_deity" title="Tutelary deity">tutelary</a> of every individual. The <a href="/wiki/Imperial_cult_(ancient_Rome)" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial cult (ancient Rome)">Imperial cult</a> became one of the major ways in which Rome advertised its presence in the provinces and cultivated shared cultural identity and loyalty throughout the Empire. Rejection of the state religion was tantamount to treason. This was the context for Rome's conflict with <a href="/wiki/Early_Christianity" title="Early Christianity">Christianity</a>, which Romans variously regarded as a form of atheism and novel <i><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion#superstitio" title="Glossary of ancient Roman religion">superstitio</a></i>, while Christians considered Roman religion to be <a href="/wiki/Paganism" title="Paganism">paganism</a>. Ultimately, Roman polytheism was brought to an end with the adoption of Christianity as the official religion of the empire.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Founding_myths_and_divine_destiny">Founding myths and divine destiny</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Founding myths and divine destiny"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Roman_mythology" title="Roman mythology">Roman mythology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Founding_of_Rome" title="Founding of Rome">Founding of Rome</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Altar_Mars_Venus_Massimo.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Altar_Mars_Venus_Massimo.jpg/330px-Altar_Mars_Venus_Massimo.jpg" decoding="async" width="330" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Altar_Mars_Venus_Massimo.jpg/495px-Altar_Mars_Venus_Massimo.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Altar_Mars_Venus_Massimo.jpg/660px-Altar_Mars_Venus_Massimo.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="1930" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Relief" title="Relief">Relief</a> panel from an altar to <a href="/wiki/Venus_(mythology)" title="Venus (mythology)">Venus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mars_(mythology)" title="Mars (mythology)">Mars</a> depicting Romulus and Remus suckling the she-wolf, and gods representing Roman topography such as the <a href="/wiki/Tiber" title="Tiber">Tiber</a> and <a href="/wiki/Palatine_Hill" title="Palatine Hill">Palatine Hill</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_mythology" title="Roman mythology">Roman mythological tradition</a> is particularly rich in historical myths, or <a href="/wiki/Legend" title="Legend">legends</a>, concerning the foundation and rise of the city. These narratives focus on human actors, with only occasional intervention from deities but a pervasive sense of divinely ordered destiny. For Rome's earliest period, history and myth are difficult to distinguish.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to mythology, Rome had a semi-divine ancestor in the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan</a> refugee <a href="/wiki/Aeneas" title="Aeneas">Aeneas</a>, son of <a href="/wiki/Venus_(mythology)" title="Venus (mythology)">Venus</a>, who was said to have established the basis of Roman religion when he brought the <a href="/wiki/Palladium_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Palladium (mythology)">Palladium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lares" title="Lares">Lares</a> and <a href="/wiki/Penates" class="mw-redirect" title="Penates">Penates</a> from Troy to Italy. These objects were believed in historical times to remain in the keeping of the <a href="/wiki/Vestal_Virgin" title="Vestal Virgin">Vestals</a>, Rome's female priesthood. Aeneas, according to classical authors, had been given refuge by King <a href="/wiki/Evander_of_Pallene" class="mw-redirect" title="Evander of Pallene">Evander</a>, a Greek exile from <a href="/wiki/Arcadia_(ancient_region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcadia (ancient region)">Arcadia</a>, to whom were attributed other religious foundations: he established the <i><a href="/wiki/Ara_Maxima" class="mw-redirect" title="Ara Maxima">Ara Maxima</a></i>, "Greatest Altar", to <a href="/wiki/Hercules_in_ancient_Rome" title="Hercules in ancient Rome">Hercules</a> at the site that would become the <a href="/wiki/Forum_Boarium" title="Forum Boarium">Forum Boarium</a>, and, so the legend went, he was the first to celebrate the <a href="/wiki/Lupercalia" title="Lupercalia">Lupercalia</a>, an archaic festival in February that was celebrated as late as the 5th century of the Christian era.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Iapyx_removing_arrowhead_from_Aeneas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Iapyx_removing_arrowhead_from_Aeneas.jpg/220px-Iapyx_removing_arrowhead_from_Aeneas.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="266" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Iapyx_removing_arrowhead_from_Aeneas.jpg/330px-Iapyx_removing_arrowhead_from_Aeneas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Iapyx_removing_arrowhead_from_Aeneas.jpg/440px-Iapyx_removing_arrowhead_from_Aeneas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2320" data-file-height="2808" /></a><figcaption>Pompeian fresco; <a href="/wiki/Iapyx" title="Iapyx">Iapyx</a> removing an arrowhead from Aeneas' thigh, watched by Venus <i><a href="/wiki/Velificans" class="mw-redirect" title="Velificans">Velificans</a></i> (veiled)</figcaption></figure> <p>The myth of a Trojan founding with Greek influence was reconciled through an elaborate genealogy (the <a href="/wiki/Latin_kings_of_Alba_Longa" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin kings of Alba Longa">Latin kings of Alba Longa</a>) with the well-known legend of Rome's founding by <a href="/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus" title="Romulus and Remus">Romulus and Remus</a>. The most common version of the twins' story displays several aspects of hero myth. Their mother, <a href="/wiki/Rhea_Silvia" title="Rhea Silvia">Rhea Silvia</a>, had been ordered by her uncle the king to remain a virgin, in order to preserve the throne he had usurped from her father. Through divine intervention, the rightful line was restored when Rhea Silvia was impregnated by the god <a href="/wiki/Mars_(mythology)" title="Mars (mythology)">Mars</a>. She gave birth to twins, who were duly <a href="/wiki/Infant_exposure" title="Infant exposure">exposed</a> by order of the king but saved through a series of miraculous events. </p><p>Romulus and Remus regained their grandfather's throne and set out to build a new city, consulting with the gods through <a href="/wiki/Augury" title="Augury">augury</a>, a characteristic religious institution of Rome that is portrayed as existing from earliest times. The brothers quarrel while building the city walls, and Romulus kills Remus, an act that is sometimes seen as sacrificial. Fratricide thus became an integral part of Rome's founding myth.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Romulus was credited with several religious institutions. He founded the <a href="/wiki/Consualia" title="Consualia">Consualia</a> festival, inviting the neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Sabines" title="Sabines">Sabines</a> to participate; the ensuing <a href="/wiki/Rape_of_the_Sabine_women" title="Rape of the Sabine women">rape of the Sabine women</a> by Romulus's men further embedded both violence and cultural assimilation in Rome's myth of origins. As a successful general, Romulus is also supposed to have founded Rome's first temple to <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)#Epithets_of_Jupiter" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jupiter Feretrius</a> and offered the <i><a href="/wiki/Spolia_opima" title="Spolia opima">spolia opima</a></i>, the prime spoils taken in war, in the celebration of the first <a href="/wiki/Roman_triumph" title="Roman triumph">Roman triumph</a>. Spared a mortal's death, Romulus was mysteriously spirited away and deified.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aeneis_3_147.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Aeneis_3_147.jpeg/220px-Aeneis_3_147.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Aeneis_3_147.jpeg/330px-Aeneis_3_147.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Aeneis_3_147.jpeg/440px-Aeneis_3_147.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="618" data-file-height="418" /></a><figcaption>Aeneas urged by the Penates to continue his journey to found Rome (4th century AD illustration)<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>His Sabine successor <a href="/wiki/Numa_Pompilius" title="Numa Pompilius">Numa</a> was pious and peaceable, and credited with numerous political and religious foundations, including the first <a href="/wiki/Roman_calendar" title="Roman calendar">Roman calendar</a>; the priesthoods of the <a href="/wiki/Salii" title="Salii">Salii</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flamen" title="Flamen">flamines</a>, and Vestals; the cults of <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jupiter</a>, Mars, and <a href="/wiki/Quirinus" title="Quirinus">Quirinus</a>; and the Temple of <a href="/wiki/Janus" title="Janus">Janus</a>, whose doors stayed open in times of war but in Numa's time remained closed. After Numa's death, the doors to the Temple of Janus were supposed to have remained open until the reign of Augustus.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Each of Rome's legendary or semi-legendary kings was associated with one or more religious institutions still known to the later Republic. <a href="/wiki/Tullus_Hostilius" title="Tullus Hostilius">Tullus Hostilius</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ancus_Marcius" title="Ancus Marcius">Ancus Marcius</a> instituted the <a href="/wiki/Fetial" title="Fetial">fetial</a> priests. The first "outsider" Etruscan king, <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Tarquinius_Priscus" title="Lucius Tarquinius Priscus">Lucius Tarquinius Priscus</a>, founded a <a href="/wiki/Capitoline_Triad" title="Capitoline Triad">Capitoline temple to the triad</a> Jupiter, <a href="/wiki/Juno_(mythology)" title="Juno (mythology)">Juno</a> and <a href="/wiki/Minerva" title="Minerva">Minerva</a> which served as the model for the highest official cult throughout the Roman world. The benevolent, divinely fathered <a href="/wiki/Servius_Tullius" title="Servius Tullius">Servius Tullius</a> established the <a href="/wiki/Latin_League" title="Latin League">Latin League</a>, its <a href="/wiki/Aventine_Hill" title="Aventine Hill">Aventine</a> Temple to <a href="/wiki/Diana_(mythology)" title="Diana (mythology)">Diana</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Compitalia" title="Compitalia">Compitalia</a> to mark his social reforms. Servius Tullius was murdered and succeeded by the arrogant <a href="/wiki/Tarquinius_Superbus" class="mw-redirect" title="Tarquinius Superbus">Tarquinius Superbus</a>, whose expulsion marked the end of Roman kingship and the beginning of the Roman republic, governed by elected <a href="/wiki/Roman_magistrates" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman magistrates">magistrates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Roman_historiography" title="Roman historiography">Roman historians</a><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> regarded the essentials of Republican religion as complete by the end of Numa's reign, and confirmed as right and lawful by the <a href="/wiki/SPQR" title="SPQR">Senate and people of Rome</a>: the sacred <a href="/wiki/Topography_of_ancient_Rome" title="Topography of ancient Rome">topography of the city</a>, its monuments and temples, the histories of Rome's <a href="/wiki/Gens" title="Gens">leading families</a>, and oral and ritual traditions.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Cicero, the Romans considered themselves the most religious of all peoples, and their rise to dominance was proof they received divine favor in return.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Roman_deities">Roman deities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Roman deities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Roman_deities" title="List of Roman deities">List of Roman deities</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Altar_twelve_gods_Louvre_Ma666.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Altar_twelve_gods_Louvre_Ma666.jpg/220px-Altar_twelve_gods_Louvre_Ma666.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Altar_twelve_gods_Louvre_Ma666.jpg/330px-Altar_twelve_gods_Louvre_Ma666.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Altar_twelve_gods_Louvre_Ma666.jpg/440px-Altar_twelve_gods_Louvre_Ma666.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2280" data-file-height="1900" /></a><figcaption>Twelve principal deities <i>(<a href="/wiki/Di_Consentes" class="mw-redirect" title="Di Consentes">Di Consentes</a>)</i> corresponding to those honoured at the <a href="/wiki/Lectisternium" title="Lectisternium">lectisternium</a> of 217 BC, represented on a 1st-century altar from <a href="/wiki/Gabii" title="Gabii">Gabii</a> that is rimmed by the <a href="/wiki/Zodiac" title="Zodiac">zodiac</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Rome offers no native <a href="/wiki/Creation_myth" title="Creation myth">creation myth</a>, and little <a href="/wiki/Mythography" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythography">mythography</a> to explain the character of its deities, their mutual relationships or their interactions with the human world, but Roman theology acknowledged that <i>di immortales</i> (immortal gods) ruled all realms of the heavens and earth. There were gods of the upper heavens, gods of the underworld and a myriad of lesser deities between. Some evidently favoured Rome because Rome honoured them, but none were intrinsically, irredeemably foreign or alien. </p><p>The political, cultural and religious coherence of an emergent Roman super-state required a broad, inclusive and flexible network of lawful cults. At different times and in different places, the sphere of influence, character and functions of a divine being could expand, overlap with those of others, and be redefined as Roman. Change was embedded within existing traditions.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Several versions of a semi-official, structured <a href="/wiki/Pantheon_(gods)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pantheon (gods)">pantheon</a> were developed during the political, social and religious instability of the Late Republican era. <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)#Cult" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jupiter</a>, the most powerful of all gods and "the fount of the auspices upon which the relationship of the city with the gods rested", consistently personified the divine authority of Rome's highest offices, internal organization and external relations. During the archaic and early Republican eras, he shared <a href="/wiki/Capitoline_Triad" title="Capitoline Triad">his temple</a>, some aspects of cult and several divine characteristics with <a href="/wiki/Mars_(mythology)" title="Mars (mythology)">Mars</a> and <a href="/wiki/Quirinus" title="Quirinus">Quirinus</a>, who were later replaced by <a href="/wiki/Juno_(mythology)" title="Juno (mythology)">Juno</a> and <a href="/wiki/Minerva" title="Minerva">Minerva</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tellus_-_Ara_Pacis.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Tellus_-_Ara_Pacis.jpg/280px-Tellus_-_Ara_Pacis.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Tellus_-_Ara_Pacis.jpg/420px-Tellus_-_Ara_Pacis.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Tellus_-_Ara_Pacis.jpg/560px-Tellus_-_Ara_Pacis.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2178" data-file-height="1404" /></a><figcaption>Three goddesses on a panel of the Augustan <a href="/wiki/Ara_Pacis" title="Ara Pacis">Ara Pacis</a>, consecrated in 9 BC; the iconography is open to multiple interpretations</figcaption></figure> <p>A conceptual tendency toward <a href="/wiki/Triadic_deities" class="mw-redirect" title="Triadic deities">triads</a> may be indicated by the later agricultural or <a href="/wiki/Plebs" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebs">plebeian</a> triad of <a href="/wiki/Ceres_(Roman_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceres (Roman mythology)">Ceres</a>, <a href="/wiki/Liber" title="Liber">Liber</a> and <a href="/wiki/Proserpina" title="Proserpina">Libera</a>, and by some of the complementary threefold deity-groupings of Imperial cult.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other major and minor deities could be single, coupled, or linked retrospectively through myths of divine marriage and sexual adventure. These later Roman <a href="/wiki/Pantheism" title="Pantheism">pantheistic</a> hierarchies are part literary and mythographic, part philosophical creations, and often Greek in origin. The <a href="/wiki/Hellenization" title="Hellenization">Hellenization</a> of Latin literature and <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_ancient_Rome" title="Culture of ancient Rome">culture</a> supplied literary and artistic models for <a href="/wiki/Interpretatio_graeca" title="Interpretatio graeca">reinterpreting</a> Roman deities in light of the <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Olympians" title="Twelve Olympians">Greek Olympians</a>, and promoted a sense that the two cultures had a shared heritage.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Villa_Carmiano_triclinio_2_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Villa_Carmiano_triclinio_2_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Villa_Carmiano_triclinio_2_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Villa_Carmiano_triclinio_2_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Villa_Carmiano_triclinio_2_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Villa_Carmiano_triclinio_2_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Villa_Carmiano_triclinio_2_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="718" data-file-height="847" /></a><figcaption>Bacchus, or <a href="/wiki/Liber" title="Liber">Liber</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ceres_(mythology)" title="Ceres (mythology)">Ceres</a>, mounted on a leopard. Fresco in <a href="/wiki/Stabiae" title="Stabiae">Stabiae</a>, 1st century</figcaption></figure> <p>The impressive, costly, and centralised rites to the deities of the Roman state were vastly outnumbered in everyday life by commonplace religious observances pertaining to an individual's domestic and personal deities, the patron divinities of Rome's various <a href="/wiki/Vicus_(Rome)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vicus (Rome)">neighbourhoods</a> and communities, and the often idiosyncratic blends of official, unofficial, local and personal cults that characterised lawful Roman religion.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In this spirit, a provincial Roman citizen who made the long journey from <a href="/wiki/Bordeaux" title="Bordeaux">Bordeaux</a> to Italy to consult the <a href="/wiki/Tiburtine_Sibyl" title="Tiburtine Sibyl">Sibyl at Tibur</a> did not neglect his devotion to his own goddess from home: </p> <blockquote><p>I wander, never ceasing to pass through the whole world, but I am first and foremost a faithful worshiper of <a href="/wiki/Onuava" title="Onuava">Onuava</a>. I am at the ends of the earth, but the distance cannot tempt me to make my vows to another goddess. Love of the truth brought me to Tibur, but Onuava's favourable powers came with me. Thus, divine mother, far from my home-land, exiled in Italy, I address my vows and prayers to you no less.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Holidays_and_festivals">Holidays and festivals</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Holidays and festivals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Roman_festivals" title="Roman festivals">Roman festivals</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fasti" title="Fasti">Fasti</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roman_calendar" title="Roman calendar">Roman calendar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ludi" title="Ludi">Ludi</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Roman_triumph" title="Roman triumph">Roman triumph</a></div> <p>Roman calendars show roughly forty annual religious festivals. Some lasted several days, others a single day or less: sacred days (<i>dies <a href="/wiki/Fasti" title="Fasti">fasti</a></i>) outnumbered "non-sacred" days (<i>dies <a href="/wiki/Nefasti" class="mw-redirect" title="Nefasti">nefasti</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A comparison of surviving Roman religious calendars suggests that official festivals were organized according to broad seasonal groups that allowed for different local traditions. Some of the most ancient and popular festivals incorporated <i><a href="/wiki/Ludi" title="Ludi">ludi</a></i> ("games", such as <a href="/wiki/Chariot_races" class="mw-redirect" title="Chariot races">chariot races</a> and <a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_ancient_Rome" title="Theatre of ancient Rome">theatrical performances</a>), with examples including those held at <a href="/wiki/Palestrina#Sanctuary_of_Fortuna_Primigenia" title="Palestrina">Palestrina in honour of Fortuna Primigenia</a> during <a href="/wiki/Compitalia" title="Compitalia">Compitalia</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Ludi_Romani" title="Ludi Romani">Ludi Romani</a> in honour of <a href="/wiki/Liber" title="Liber">Liber</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other festivals may have required only the presence and rites of their priests and acolytes,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or particular groups, such as women at the <a href="/wiki/Bona_Dea" title="Bona Dea">Bona Dea</a> rites.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Compitalia_fresco.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Compitalia_fresco.jpg/300px-Compitalia_fresco.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Compitalia_fresco.jpg/450px-Compitalia_fresco.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Compitalia_fresco.jpg 2x" data-file-width="544" data-file-height="314" /></a><figcaption>This <a href="/wiki/Fresco" title="Fresco">fresco</a> from outside <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a> shows Roman men celebrating a religious festival, probably the <a href="/wiki/Compitalia" title="Compitalia">Compitalia</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Other public festivals were not required by the calendar, but occasioned by events. The <a href="/wiki/Roman_triumph" title="Roman triumph">triumph</a> of a Roman general was celebrated as the fulfillment of <a href="/wiki/Votum" title="Votum">religious vows</a>, though these tended to be overshadowed by the political and social significance of the event. During the late Republic, the political elite competed to outdo each other in public display, and the <i>ludi</i> attendant on a triumph were expanded to include <a href="/wiki/Gladiator#Origins" title="Gladiator">gladiator</a> contests. Under the <a href="/wiki/Principate" title="Principate">Principate</a>, all such spectacular displays came under Imperial control: the most lavish were subsidised by emperors, and lesser events were provided by magistrates as a sacred duty and privilege of office. Additional festivals and games celebrated Imperial accessions and anniversaries. Others, such as the traditional Republican <a href="/wiki/Secular_Games" title="Secular Games">Secular Games</a> to mark a new era (<i>saeculum</i>), became imperially funded to maintain traditional values and a common Roman identity. That the spectacles retained something of their sacral aura even in <a href="/wiki/Late_antiquity" title="Late antiquity">late antiquity</a> is indicated by the admonitions of the Church Fathers that Christians should not take part.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The meaning and origin of many archaic festivals baffled even Rome's intellectual elite, but the more obscure they were, the greater the opportunity for reinvention and reinterpretation – a fact lost neither on Augustus in his program of religious reform, which often cloaked autocratic innovation, nor on his only rival as mythmaker of the era, <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>. In his <i><a href="/wiki/Fasti_(poem)" title="Fasti (poem)">Fasti</a></i>, a long-form poem covering Roman holidays from January to June, Ovid presents a unique look at Roman <a href="/wiki/Antiquarian" title="Antiquarian">antiquarian</a> lore, popular customs, and religious practice that is by turns imaginative, entertaining, high-minded, and scurrilous;<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> not a priestly account, despite the speaker's pose as a <i><a href="/wiki/Vates" title="Vates">vates</a></i> or inspired poet-prophet, but a work of description, imagination and poetic etymology that reflects the broad humor and burlesque spirit of such venerable festivals as the <a href="/wiki/Saturnalia" title="Saturnalia">Saturnalia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Consualia" title="Consualia">Consualia</a>, and feast of <a href="/wiki/Anna_Perenna" title="Anna Perenna">Anna Perenna</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Ides_of_March" title="Ides of March">Ides of March</a>, where Ovid treats the assassination of the newly deified Julius Caesar as utterly incidental to the festivities among the Roman people.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But official calendars preserved from different times and places also show a flexibility in omitting or expanding events, indicating that there was no single static and authoritative calendar of required observances. In the later Empire under Christian rule, the new Christian festivals were incorporated into the existing framework of the Roman calendar, alongside at least some of the traditional festivals.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Temples_and_shrines">Temples and shrines</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Temples and shrines"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Roman_temple" title="Roman temple">Roman temple</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sanlorenzoinmiranda-rome.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Sanlorenzoinmiranda-rome.jpg/220px-Sanlorenzoinmiranda-rome.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="253" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Sanlorenzoinmiranda-rome.jpg/330px-Sanlorenzoinmiranda-rome.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Sanlorenzoinmiranda-rome.jpg/440px-Sanlorenzoinmiranda-rome.jpg 2x" data-file-width="462" data-file-height="532" /></a><figcaption>Portico of the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Antoninus_and_Faustina" title="Temple of Antoninus and Faustina">Temple of Antoninus and Faustina</a>, later incorporated into a church</figcaption></figure> <p>Public religious ceremonies of the official Roman religion took place outdoors, and not within the temple building. Some ceremonies were processions that started at, visited, or ended with a temple or shrine, where a ritual object might be stored and brought out for use, or where an offering would be deposited. <a href="#Sacrifice">Sacrifices</a>, chiefly <a href="/wiki/Animal_sacrifice" title="Animal sacrifice">of animals</a>, would take place at an open-air <a href="/wiki/Altar" title="Altar">altar</a> within the <i>templum</i> or precinct, often to the side of the steps leading up to the raised portico. The main room <i>(cella)</i> inside a temple housed the cult image of the deity to whom the temple was dedicated, and often a small altar for incense or <a href="/wiki/Libation" title="Libation">libations</a>. It might also display art works looted in war and rededicated to the gods. It is not clear how accessible the interiors of temples were to the general public. </p><p>The Latin word <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/templum" class="extiw" title="wikt:templum">templum</a></i> originally referred not to the temple building itself, but to a sacred space surveyed and plotted ritually through augury: "The architecture of the ancient Romans was, from first to last, an art of shaping space around ritual."<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Roman architect <a href="/wiki/Vitruvius" title="Vitruvius">Vitruvius</a> always uses the word <i>templum</i> to refer to this sacred precinct, and the more common Latin words <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aedes" class="extiw" title="wikt:aedes">aedes</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/delubrum" class="extiw" title="wikt:delubrum">delubrum</a></i>, or <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fanum" class="extiw" title="wikt:fanum">fanum</a></i> for a temple or shrine as a building. The ruins of temples are among the most visible monuments of ancient Roman culture. </p><p>Temple buildings and shrines within the city commemorated significant political settlements in its development: the Aventine Temple of Diana supposedly marked the founding of the Latin League under Servius Tullius.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many temples in the Republican era were built as the fulfillment of a <a href="/wiki/Votum" title="Votum">vow</a> made by a general in exchange for a victory: Rome's first known temple to Venus was vowed by the consul <a href="/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Maximus_Gurges_(consul_292_BC)" title="Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 292 BC)">Q. Fabius Gurges</a> in the heat of battle against the <a href="/wiki/Samnite_Wars#Third_Samnite_War_(298_to_290_BC)" title="Samnite Wars">Samnites</a>, and dedicated in 295 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religious_practice">Religious practice</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Religious practice"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prayers,_vows,_and_oaths"><span id="Prayers.2C_vows.2C_and_oaths"></span>Prayers, vows, and oaths</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Prayers, vows, and oaths"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>All sacrifices and offerings required an accompanying prayer to be effective. <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny the Elder</a> declared that "a sacrifice without prayer is thought to be useless and not a proper consultation of the gods."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Prayer by itself, however, had independent power. The spoken word was thus the single most potent religious action, and knowledge of the correct verbal formulas the key to efficacy.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Accurate naming was vital for tapping into the desired powers of the deity invoked, hence the proliferation of cult epithets among Roman deities.<sup id="cite_ref-Halm,_in_Rüpke_ed,_241–2_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Halm,_in_Rüpke_ed,_241–2-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Public prayers (<i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prex" class="extiw" title="wikt:prex">prex</a></i>) were offered loudly and clearly by a priest on behalf of the community. Public religious ritual had to be enacted by specialists and professionals faultlessly; a mistake might require that the action, or even the entire festival, be repeated from the start.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The historian <a href="/wiki/Livy" title="Livy">Livy</a> reports an occasion when the presiding magistrate at the <a href="/wiki/Feriae_Latinae" title="Feriae Latinae">Latin festival</a> forgot to include the "Roman people" among the list of beneficiaries in his prayer; the festival had to be started over.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even private prayer by an individual was formulaic, a recitation rather than a personal expression, though selected by the individual for a particular purpose or occasion.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Oaths—sworn for the purposes of business, <a href="/wiki/Patronage_in_ancient_Rome" title="Patronage in ancient Rome">clientage and service, patronage and protection</a>, state office, treaty and loyalty—appealed to the witness and sanction of deities. Refusal to swear a lawful oath <i>(<a href="/wiki/Sacramentum_(oath)" title="Sacramentum (oath)">sacramentum</a>)</i> and breaking a sworn oath carried much the same penalty: both repudiated the fundamental bonds between the human and divine.<sup id="cite_ref-Halm,_in_Rüpke_ed,_241–2_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Halm,_in_Rüpke_ed,_241–2-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <i><a href="/wiki/Votum" title="Votum">votum</a></i> or vow was a promise made to a deity, usually an offer of sacrifices or a votive offering in exchange for benefits received. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sacrifice">Sacrifice</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Sacrifice"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stockholm_-_Antikengalerie_Opferszene.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Stockholm_-_Antikengalerie_Opferszene.jpg/280px-Stockholm_-_Antikengalerie_Opferszene.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Stockholm_-_Antikengalerie_Opferszene.jpg/420px-Stockholm_-_Antikengalerie_Opferszene.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Stockholm_-_Antikengalerie_Opferszene.jpg/560px-Stockholm_-_Antikengalerie_Opferszene.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2560" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption>Roman <a href="/wiki/Relief_sculpture" class="mw-redirect" title="Relief sculpture">relief</a> depicting a scene of sacrifice, with <a href="/wiki/Libation#Ancient_Rome" title="Libation">libations</a> at a flaming altar and the <i><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion#victimarius" title="Glossary of ancient Roman religion">victimarius</a></i> carrying the sacrificial axe</figcaption></figure> <p>In Latin, the word <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sacrificium" class="extiw" title="wikt:sacrificium">sacrificium</a></i> means the performance of an act that renders something <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sacer" class="extiw" title="wikt:sacer">sacer</a></i>, sacred. Sacrifice reinforced the powers and attributes of divine beings, and inclined them to render benefits in return (the principle of <i><a href="/wiki/Do_ut_des" class="mw-redirect" title="Do ut des">do ut des</a></i>). </p><p>Offerings to <a href="/wiki/Household_deity" title="Household deity">household deities</a> were part of daily life. <a href="/wiki/Lares" title="Lares">Lares</a> might be offered spelt wheat and grain-garlands, grapes and first fruits in due season, honey cakes and honeycombs, wine and incense,<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> food that fell to the floor during any family meal,<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or at their <a href="/wiki/Compitalia" title="Compitalia">Compitalia</a> festival, honey-cakes and a pig on behalf of the community.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their supposed underworld relatives, the malicious and vagrant <a href="/wiki/Lemures" title="Lemures">Lemures</a>, might be placated with midnight offerings of black beans and spring water.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Animal_sacrifice">Animal sacrifice</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Animal sacrifice"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/October_Horse" title="October Horse">October Horse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tauromachy" class="mw-redirect" title="Tauromachy">Tauromachy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taurobolium" title="Taurobolium">Taurobolium</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Haruspicy" class="mw-redirect" title="Haruspicy">Haruspicy</a></div> <p>The most potent offering was <a href="/wiki/Animal_sacrifice" title="Animal sacrifice">animal sacrifice</a>, typically of domesticated animals such as cattle, sheep and pigs. Each was the best specimen of its kind, cleansed, clad in sacrificial regalia and garlanded; the horns of oxen might be gilded. Sacrifice sought the <a href="/wiki/Pax_deorum" class="mw-redirect" title="Pax deorum">harmonisation of the earthly and divine</a>, so the victim must seem willing to offer its own life on behalf of the community; it must remain calm and be quickly and cleanly dispatched.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sacrifice to deities of the heavens (<i>di superi</i>, "gods above") was performed in daylight, and under the public gaze. Deities of the upper heavens required white, infertile victims of their own sex: <a href="/wiki/Juno_(mythology)" title="Juno (mythology)">Juno</a> a white heifer (possibly a white cow); <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jupiter</a> a white, castrated ox (<i>bos mas</i>) for the annual oath-taking by the <a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">consuls</a>. <i>Di superi</i> with strong connections to the earth, such as Mars, Janus, Neptune and various <i><a href="/wiki/Genius_(mythology)" title="Genius (mythology)">genii</a></i> – including the Emperor's – were offered fertile victims. After the sacrifice, a banquet was held; in state cults, the images of honoured deities took pride of place on banqueting couches and by means of the sacrificial fire consumed their proper portion (<i><a href="/wiki/Exta" class="mw-redirect" title="Exta">exta</a></i>, the innards). Rome's officials and priests reclined in order of precedence alongside and ate the meat; lesser citizens may have had to provide their own.<sup id="cite_ref-Scheid,_in_Rüpke_ed,_263–271_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scheid,_in_Rüpke_ed,_263–271-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AUGUSTUS_RIC_I_368-711372.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/AUGUSTUS_RIC_I_368-711372.jpg/290px-AUGUSTUS_RIC_I_368-711372.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/AUGUSTUS_RIC_I_368-711372.jpg/435px-AUGUSTUS_RIC_I_368-711372.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/AUGUSTUS_RIC_I_368-711372.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="253" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Denarius" title="Denarius">Denarius</a> issued under Augustus, with a bust of Venus on the <a href="/wiki/Obverse" class="mw-redirect" title="Obverse">obverse</a>, and ritual implements on the reverse: clockwise from top right, the augur's staff <i>(<a href="/wiki/Lituus" title="Lituus">lituus</a>)</i>, libation bowl <i>(<a href="/wiki/Patera" title="Patera">patera</a>)</i>, <a href="/wiki/Sacrificial_tripod" title="Sacrificial tripod">tripod</a>, and ladle <i>(<a href="/wiki/Simpulum" title="Simpulum">simpulum</a>)</i></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Chthonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Chthonic">Chthonic</a> gods such as <a href="/wiki/Dis_pater" class="mw-redirect" title="Dis pater">Dis pater</a>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Di_inferi" title="Di inferi">di inferi</a></i> ("gods below"), and the collective shades of the departed <i>(<a href="/wiki/Manes" title="Manes">di Manes</a>)</i> were given dark, fertile victims in nighttime rituals. Animal sacrifice usually took the form of a <a href="/wiki/Holocaust_(sacrifice)" title="Holocaust (sacrifice)">holocaust</a> or burnt offering, and there was no shared banquet, as "the living cannot share a meal with the dead".<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ceres_(Roman_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceres (Roman mythology)">Ceres</a> and other underworld goddesses of fruitfulness were sometimes offered pregnant female animals; <a href="/wiki/Terra_(mythology)" title="Terra (mythology)">Tellus</a> was given a pregnant cow at the <a href="/wiki/Fordicidia" title="Fordicidia">Fordicidia</a> festival. Color had a general symbolic value for sacrifices. Demigods and heroes, who belonged to the heavens and the underworld, were sometimes given black-and-white victims. <a href="/wiki/Robigo" class="mw-redirect" title="Robigo">Robigo</a> (or <a href="/wiki/Robigus" class="mw-redirect" title="Robigus">Robigus</a>) was given red dogs and libations of red wine at the <a href="/wiki/Robigalia" title="Robigalia">Robigalia</a> for the protection of crops from blight and red mildew.<sup id="cite_ref-Scheid,_in_Rüpke_ed,_263–271_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scheid,_in_Rüpke_ed,_263–271-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><span class="anchor" id="piaculum"></span> A sacrifice might be made in thanksgiving or as an <a href="/wiki/Expiation" class="mw-redirect" title="Expiation">expiation</a> of a sacrilege or potential sacrilege (<i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/piaculum" class="extiw" title="wikt:piaculum">piaculum</a></i>);<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a <i>piaculum</i> might also be offered as a sort of advance payment; the <a href="/wiki/Arval_Brethren" title="Arval Brethren">Arval Brethren</a>, for instance, offered a <i>piaculum</i> before entering their <a href="/wiki/Sacred_grove" title="Sacred grove">sacred grove</a> with an iron implement, which was forbidden, as well as after.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The pig was a common victim for a <i>piaculum</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The same divine agencies who caused disease or harm also had the power to avert it, and so might be placated in advance. Divine consideration might be sought to avoid the inconvenient delays of a journey, or encounters with banditry, piracy and shipwreck, with due gratitude to be rendered on safe arrival or return. In times of great crisis, the Senate could decree collective public rites, in which Rome's citizens, including women and children, moved in procession from one temple to the next, supplicating the gods.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Extraordinary circumstances called for extraordinary sacrifice: in one of the many crises of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">Second Punic War</a>, Jupiter Capitolinus was promised every animal born that spring (see <i><a href="/wiki/Ver_sacrum" title="Ver sacrum">ver sacrum</a></i>), to be rendered after five more years of protection from <a href="/wiki/Hannibal" title="Hannibal">Hannibal</a> and his allies.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The "contract" with Jupiter is exceptionally detailed. All due care would be taken of the animals. If any died or were stolen before the scheduled sacrifice, they would count as already sacrificed, since they had already been consecrated. Normally, if the gods failed to keep their side of the bargain, the offered sacrifice would be withheld. In the imperial period, sacrifice was withheld following <a href="/wiki/Trajan" title="Trajan">Trajan</a>'s death because the gods had not kept the Emperor safe for the stipulated period.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a>, the <i>Genius</i> of the living emperor was offered a bull: presumably a standard practise in Imperial cult, though minor offerings (incense and wine) were also made.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Exta"></span> The <i>exta</i> were the entrails of a <a href="/wiki/Animal_sacrifice" title="Animal sacrifice">sacrificed animal</a>, comprising in <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>'s enumeration the gall bladder (<i>fel</i>), liver (<i>iecur</i>), heart (<i>cor</i>), and lungs (<i>pulmones</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>exta</i> were exposed for <a href="/wiki/Litatio" class="mw-redirect" title="Litatio">litatio</a> (divine approval) as part of Roman liturgy, but were "read" in the context of the <i><a href="/wiki/Disciplina_Etrusca" class="mw-redirect" title="Disciplina Etrusca">disciplina Etrusca</a></i>. As a product of Roman sacrifice, the <i>exta</i> and blood are reserved for the gods, while the meat <i>(viscera)</i> is shared among human beings in a communal meal. The <i>exta</i> of bovine victims were usually stewed in a pot (<i><a href="/wiki/Olla_(Roman_pot)" title="Olla (Roman pot)">olla</a></i> or <i>aula</i>), while those of sheep or pigs were grilled on skewers. When the deity's portion was cooked, it was sprinkled with <i><a href="/wiki/Mola_salsa" title="Mola salsa">mola salsa</a></i> (ritually prepared salted flour) and wine, then placed in the fire on the altar for the offering; the technical verb for this action was <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/porricere" class="extiw" title="wikt:porricere">porricere</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Human_sacrifice">Human sacrifice</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Human sacrifice"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Human sacrifice in ancient Rome was rare but documented. After the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae" title="Battle of Cannae">Roman defeat at Cannae</a> two Gauls and two Greeks were buried under the <a href="/wiki/Forum_Boarium" title="Forum Boarium">Forum Boarium</a>, in a stone chamber "which had on a previous occasion [228 BC] also been polluted by human victims, a practice most repulsive to Roman feelings".<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Livy avoids the word "sacrifice" in connection with this bloodless human life-offering; Plutarch does not. The rite was apparently repeated in 113 BC, preparatory to an invasion of Gaul. Its religious dimensions and purpose remain uncertain.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the early stages of the <a href="/wiki/First_Punic_War" title="First Punic War">First Punic War</a> (264 BC) the first known Roman <a href="/wiki/Gladiator" title="Gladiator">gladiatorial</a> <i>munus</i> was held, described as a funeral blood-rite to the <i><a href="/wiki/Manes" title="Manes">manes</a></i> of a Roman military aristocrat.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The gladiator <i>munus</i> was never explicitly acknowledged as a human sacrifice, probably because death was not its inevitable outcome or purpose. Even so, the gladiators swore their lives to the gods, and the combat was dedicated as an offering to the <i><a href="/wiki/Manes" title="Manes">Di Manes</a></i> or the revered souls of deceased human beings. The event was therefore a <i>sacrificium</i> in the strict sense of the term, and Christian writers later condemned it as human sacrifice.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The small woollen dolls called <i>Maniae</i>, hung on the Compitalia shrines, were thought a symbolic replacement for child-sacrifice to <a href="/wiki/Mother_of_the_Lares" title="Mother of the Lares">Mania, as Mother of the Lares</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Junii" class="mw-redirect" title="Junii">Junii</a> took credit for its abolition by their ancestor <a href="/wiki/Lucius_Junius_Brutus" title="Lucius Junius Brutus">L. Junius Brutus</a>, traditionally Rome's Republican founder and first consul.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Political or military executions were sometimes conducted in such a way that they evoked human sacrifice, whether deliberately or in the perception of witnesses; <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Marius_Gratidianus" title="Marcus Marius Gratidianus">Marcus Marius Gratidianus</a> was a gruesome example. </p><p>Officially, human sacrifice was obnoxious "to the laws of gods and men". The practice was a mark of the <a href="/wiki/Barbarian" title="Barbarian">barbarians</a>, attributed to Rome's traditional enemies such as the Carthaginians and Gauls. Rome banned it on several occasions under extreme penalty. A law passed in 81 BC characterised human sacrifice as murder committed for magical purposes. <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny</a> saw the ending of human sacrifice conducted by the <a href="/wiki/Druid" title="Druid">druids</a> as a positive consequence of the conquest of Gaul and Britain. Despite an empire-wide ban under <a href="/wiki/Hadrian" title="Hadrian">Hadrian</a>, human sacrifice may have continued covertly in <a href="/wiki/Africa_(Roman_province)" title="Africa (Roman province)">North Africa</a> and elsewhere.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Domestic_and_private_cult">Domestic and private cult</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Domestic and private cult"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vindobona_Hoher_Markt-142.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Vindobona_Hoher_Markt-142.JPG/220px-Vindobona_Hoher_Markt-142.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="258" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Vindobona_Hoher_Markt-142.JPG/330px-Vindobona_Hoher_Markt-142.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Vindobona_Hoher_Markt-142.JPG/440px-Vindobona_Hoher_Markt-142.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1367" data-file-height="1604" /></a><figcaption>Small bronze statues of gods for a <i>lararium</i> (1st to 3rd century AD, <a href="/wiki/Vindobona" title="Vindobona">Vindobona</a>)</figcaption></figure> <p>The <i>mos maiorum</i> established the dynastic authority and obligations of the citizen-<i>paterfamilias</i> ("the father of the family" or the "owner of the family estate"). He had priestly duties to his <i><a href="/wiki/Lares" title="Lares">lares</a></i>, domestic <i><a href="/wiki/Penates" class="mw-redirect" title="Penates">penates</a></i>, ancestral <i>Genius</i> and any other deities with whom he or his family held an interdependent relationship. His own dependents, who included his slaves and freedmen, owed cult to his <i><a href="/wiki/Genius_(mythology)" title="Genius (mythology)">Genius</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Genius</i> was the essential spirit and generative power – depicted as a serpent or as a perennial youth, often winged – within an individual and their clan (<a href="/wiki/Gens" title="Gens">gens</a> (pl. <i>gentes</i>). A <i>paterfamilias</i> could confer his name, a measure of his <i>genius</i> and a role in his household rites, obligations and honours upon those he fathered or adopted. His freed slaves owed him similar obligations.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <i>pater familias</i> was the senior priest of his household. He offered daily cult to his <i>lares</i> and <i>penates</i>, and to his <i>di parentes</i>/<i>divi parentes</i> at his domestic shrines and in the fires of the household hearth.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His wife (<i>mater familias</i>) was responsible for the household's cult to Vesta. In rural estates, bailiffs seem to have been responsible for at least some of the household shrines (lararia) and their deities. Household cults had state counterparts. In Vergil's <i>Aeneid</i>, Aeneas brought the Trojan cult of the <i><a href="/wiki/Lares" title="Lares">lares</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Penates" class="mw-redirect" title="Penates">penates</a></i> from Troy, along with the <a href="/wiki/Palladium_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Palladium (mythology)">Palladium</a> which was later installed in the temple of <a href="/wiki/Vesta_(mythology)" title="Vesta (mythology)">Vesta</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religio_and_the_state"><i>Religio</i> and the state</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Religio and the state"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:L%27Image_et_le_Pouvoir_-_Portrait_d%27Antonin_le_Pieux_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/L%27Image_et_le_Pouvoir_-_Portrait_d%27Antonin_le_Pieux_02.jpg/170px-L%27Image_et_le_Pouvoir_-_Portrait_d%27Antonin_le_Pieux_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="229" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/L%27Image_et_le_Pouvoir_-_Portrait_d%27Antonin_le_Pieux_02.jpg/255px-L%27Image_et_le_Pouvoir_-_Portrait_d%27Antonin_le_Pieux_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/L%27Image_et_le_Pouvoir_-_Portrait_d%27Antonin_le_Pieux_02.jpg/340px-L%27Image_et_le_Pouvoir_-_Portrait_d%27Antonin_le_Pieux_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3404" data-file-height="4588" /></a><figcaption>Portrait of the emperor <a href="/wiki/Antoninus_Pius" title="Antoninus Pius">Antoninus Pius</a> (reigned 138–161 AD) in ritual attire as an <a href="/wiki/Arval_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Arval Brothers">Arval Brother</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Roman <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/religio#Latin" class="extiw" title="wikt:religio">religio</a></i> (religion) was an everyday and vital affair, a cornerstone of the <i><a href="/wiki/Mos_maiorum" title="Mos maiorum">mos maiorum</a></i>, Roman tradition and ancestral custom. It was ultimately governed by the Roman state, and religious laws.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p>Care for the gods, the very meaning of <i>religio</i>, had therefore to go through life, and one might thus understand why Cicero wrote that religion was "necessary". Religious behavior – <i>pietas</i> in Latin, <i>eusebeia</i> in Greek – belonged to action and not to contemplation. Consequently religious acts took place wherever the faithful were: in houses, boroughs, associations, cities, military camps, cemeteries, in the country, on boats. 'When pious travelers happen to pass by a <a href="/wiki/Lucus" title="Lucus">sacred grove</a> or a cult place on their way, they are used to make a vow, or a fruit offering, or to sit down for a while' (<a href="/wiki/Apuleius" title="Apuleius">Apuleius</a>, <i>Florides</i> 1.1).<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Religious law centered on the ritualised system of honours and sacrifice that brought divine blessings, according to the principle <i><a href="/wiki/Do_ut_des" class="mw-redirect" title="Do ut des">do ut des</a></i> ("I give, that you might give"). Proper, respectful <i>religio</i> brought social harmony and prosperity. Religious neglect was a form of <a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheism</a>: impure sacrifice and incorrect ritual were <i><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion#vitium" title="Glossary of ancient Roman religion">vitia</a></i> (impious errors). Excessive devotion, fearful grovelling to deities and the improper use or seeking of divine knowledge were <i><a href="#Divination,_magic_and_superstition">superstitio</a></i>. Any of these moral deviations could cause divine anger (<i>ira deorum</i>) and therefore harm the State.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The official deities of the state were identified with its lawful offices and institutions, and Romans of every class were expected to honour the beneficence and protection of mortal and divine superiors. State cult rituals were almost always performed in daylight and in full public view, by priests who acted on behalf of the Roman state and the Roman people. Congregations were expected to respectfully observe the proceedings. Participation in public rites showed a personal commitment to the community and its values.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Official cults were state funded as a "matter of public interest" (<i><a href="/wiki/Res_publica" title="Res publica">res publica</a></i>). Non-official but lawful cults were funded by private individuals for the benefit of their own communities. The difference between public and private cult is often unclear. Individuals or collegial associations could offer funds and cult to state deities. The public Vestals prepared ritual substances for use in public and private cults, and held the state-funded (thus public) opening ceremony for the <a href="/wiki/Parentalia" title="Parentalia">Parentalia</a> festival, which was otherwise a private rite to household ancestors. Some rites of the <i>domus</i> (household) were held in public places but were legally defined as <i>privata</i> in part or whole. All cults were ultimately subject to the approval and regulation of the censor and <i>pontifices</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public_priesthoods_and_religious_law">Public priesthoods and religious law</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Public priesthoods and religious law"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ara_pacis_fregio_lato_ovest_2_A.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Ara_pacis_fregio_lato_ovest_2_A.JPG/330px-Ara_pacis_fregio_lato_ovest_2_A.JPG" decoding="async" width="330" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Ara_pacis_fregio_lato_ovest_2_A.JPG/495px-Ara_pacis_fregio_lato_ovest_2_A.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Ara_pacis_fregio_lato_ovest_2_A.JPG/660px-Ara_pacis_fregio_lato_ovest_2_A.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1168" data-file-height="620" /></a><figcaption>Three <a href="/wiki/Flamen" title="Flamen">flamines</a> in their distinctive pointed headgear, grouped to the centre of a panel from the <a href="/wiki/Ara_Pacis" title="Ara Pacis">Ara Pacis</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Rome had no separate priestly caste or class. The highest authority within a community usually sponsored its cults and sacrifices, officiated as its priest and promoted its assistants and acolytes. Specialists from the religious colleges and professionals such as <a href="/wiki/Haruspex" title="Haruspex"><i>haruspices</i></a> and oracles were available for consultation. In household cult, the <i>paterfamilias</i> functioned as priest, and members of his <i>familia</i> as acolytes and assistants. Public cults required greater knowledge and expertise. The earliest public priesthoods were probably the <i><a href="/wiki/Flamen" title="Flamen">flamines</a></i> (the singular is <i>flamen</i>), attributed to king Numa: the major <i>flamines</i>, dedicated to Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus, were traditionally drawn from patrician families. Twelve lesser <i>flamines</i> were each dedicated to a single deity, whose archaic nature is indicated by the relative obscurity of some. <i>Flamines</i> were constrained by the requirements of ritual purity; Jupiter's <i>flamen</i> in particular had virtually no simultaneous capacity for a political or military career.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the Regal era, a <i><a href="/wiki/Rex_sacrorum" class="mw-redirect" title="Rex sacrorum">rex sacrorum</a></i> (king of the sacred rites) supervised regal and state rites in conjunction with the king (<i>rex</i>) or in his absence, and announced the public festivals. He had little or no civil authority. With the abolition of monarchy, the collegial power and influence of the Republican <i>pontifices</i> increased. By the late Republican era, the flamines were supervised by the pontifical <i>collegia</i>. The <i>rex sacrorum</i> had become a relatively obscure priesthood with an entirely symbolic title: his religious duties still included the daily, ritual announcement of festivals and priestly duties within two or three of the latter but his most important priestly role – the supervision of the <a href="/wiki/Vestal_Virgins" class="mw-redirect" title="Vestal Virgins">Vestals</a> and their rites – fell to the more politically powerful and influential <i><a href="/wiki/Pontifex_maximus" title="Pontifex maximus">pontifex maximus</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Public priests were appointed by the <i>collegia</i>. Once elected, a priest held permanent religious authority from the eternal divine, which offered him lifetime influence, privilege and immunity. Therefore, civil and religious law limited the number and kind of religious offices allowed an individual and his family. Religious law was collegial and traditional; it informed political decisions, could overturn them, and was difficult to exploit for personal gain.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Priesthood was a costly honour: in traditional Roman practice, a priest drew no stipend. Cult donations were the property of the deity, whose priest must provide cult regardless of shortfalls in public funding – this could mean subsidy of acolytes and all other cult maintenance from personal funds.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For those who had reached their goal in the <i><a href="/wiki/Cursus_honorum" title="Cursus honorum">Cursus honorum</a></i>, permanent priesthood was best sought or granted after a lifetime's service in military or political life, or preferably both: it was a particularly honourable and active form of retirement which fulfilled an essential public duty. For a freedman or slave, promotion as one of the Compitalia <i>seviri</i> offered a high local profile, and opportunities in local politics; and therefore business.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the Imperial era, priesthood of the Imperial cult offered provincial elites full Roman citizenship and public prominence beyond their single year in religious office; in effect, it was the first step in a provincial <i>cursus honorum</i>. In Rome, the same Imperial cult role was performed by the <a href="/wiki/Arval_Brethren" title="Arval Brethren">Arval Brethren</a>, once an obscure Republican priesthood dedicated to several deities, then co-opted by Augustus as part of his religious reforms. The Arvals offered prayer and sacrifice to Roman state gods at various temples for the continued welfare of the Imperial family on their birthdays, accession anniversaries and to mark extraordinary events such as the quashing of conspiracy or revolt. Every 3 January they consecrated the annual vows and rendered any sacrifice promised in the previous year, provided the gods had kept the Imperial family safe for the contracted time.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Vestals">The Vestals</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: The Vestals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chief_Vestal.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Chief_Vestal.jpg/150px-Chief_Vestal.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="237" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Chief_Vestal.jpg/225px-Chief_Vestal.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Chief_Vestal.jpg 2x" data-file-width="246" data-file-height="388" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Roman_sculpture" title="Roman sculpture">Roman sculpture</a> depicting a <a href="/wiki/Vestal_Virgin" title="Vestal Virgin">Vestal</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Vestal_Virgin" title="Vestal Virgin">Vestals</a> were a public priesthood of six women devoted to the cultivation of <a href="/wiki/Vesta_(mythology)" title="Vesta (mythology)">Vesta</a>, goddess of the <a href="/wiki/Sacred_fire_of_Vesta" title="Sacred fire of Vesta">hearth of the Roman state and its vital flame</a>. A girl chosen to be a Vestal achieved unique religious distinction, public status and privileges, and could exercise considerable political influence. Upon entering her office, a Vestal was emancipated from her <a href="/wiki/Paterfamilias" class="mw-redirect" title="Paterfamilias">father's authority</a>. In archaic Roman society, these priestesses were the only women not required to be under the legal guardianship of a man, instead answering directly to the Pontifex Maximus.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A Vestal's dress represented her status outside the usual categories that defined Roman women, with elements of both virgin bride and daughter, and Roman matron and wife.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike male priests, Vestals were freed of the traditional obligations of marrying and producing children, and were required to take a vow of chastity that was strictly enforced: a Vestal polluted by the loss of her chastity while in office was buried alive.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus the exceptional honor accorded a Vestal was religious rather than personal or social; her privileges required her to be fully devoted to the performance of her duties, which were considered essential to the security of Rome.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Vestals embody the profound connection between domestic cult and the religious life of the community.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Any householder could rekindle their own household fire from Vesta's flame. The Vestals cared for the <a href="/wiki/Lares" title="Lares">Lares</a> and <a href="/wiki/Penates" class="mw-redirect" title="Penates">Penates</a> of the state that were the equivalent of those enshrined in each home. Besides their own festival of <a href="/wiki/Vestalia" title="Vestalia">Vestalia</a>, they participated directly in the rites of <a href="/wiki/Parilia" title="Parilia">Parilia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Parentalia" title="Parentalia">Parentalia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fordicidia" title="Fordicidia">Fordicidia</a>. Indirectly, they played a role in every official sacrifice; among their duties was the preparation of the <i><a href="/wiki/Mola_salsa" title="Mola salsa">mola salsa</a></i>, the salted flour that was sprinkled on every <a href="/wiki/Animal_sacrifice" title="Animal sacrifice">sacrificial victim</a> as part of its immolation.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One mythological tradition held that the mother of Romulus and Remus was a Vestal virgin of royal blood. A tale of miraculous birth also attended on <a href="/wiki/Servius_Tullius" title="Servius Tullius">Servius Tullius</a>, sixth king of Rome, son of a virgin slave-girl impregnated by a disembodied <a href="/wiki/Phallus" title="Phallus">phallus</a> arising mysteriously on the royal hearth; the story was connected to the <i><a href="/wiki/Fascinus" title="Fascinus">fascinus</a></i> that was among the cult objects under the guardianship of the Vestals. </p><p>Augustus' religious reformations raised the funding and public profile of the Vestals. They were given high-status seating at games and theatres. The emperor <a href="/wiki/Claudius" title="Claudius">Claudius</a> appointed them as priestesses to the cult of the deified <a href="/wiki/Livia" title="Livia">Livia</a>, wife of Augustus.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They seem to have retained their religious and social distinctions well into the 4th century, after political power within the Empire had shifted to the Christians. When the Christian emperor <a href="/wiki/Gratian" title="Gratian">Gratian</a> refused the office of <i>pontifex maximus</i>, he took steps toward the dissolution of the order. His successor <a href="/wiki/Theodosius_I" title="Theodosius I">Theodosius I</a> extinguished Vesta's sacred fire and vacated her temple. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Augury">Augury</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Augury"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Augur" title="Augur">Augur</a></div> <p>Public religion took place within a sacred precinct that had been marked out ritually by an <a href="/wiki/Augur" title="Augur">augur</a>. The original meaning of the Latin word <i>templum</i> was this sacred space, and only later referred to a building.<sup id="cite_ref-Scheid,_in_Rüpke_ed,_263–271_45-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Scheid,_in_Rüpke_ed,_263–271-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rome itself was an intrinsically sacred space; its ancient boundary <i>(<a href="/wiki/Pomerium" title="Pomerium">pomerium</a>)</i> had been marked by Romulus himself with oxen and plough; what lay within was the earthly home and protectorate of the gods of the state. In Rome, the central references for the establishment of an augural <i>templum</i> appear to have been the <a href="/wiki/Via_Sacra" title="Via Sacra">Via Sacra</a> (Sacred Way) and the pomerium.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Magistrates sought divine opinion of proposed official acts through an augur, who read the divine will through observations made within the <i>templum</i> before, during and after an act of sacrifice.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Divine disapproval could arise through unfit sacrifice, errant rites (<a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_ancient_Roman_religion#vitium" title="Glossary of ancient Roman religion"><i>vitia</i></a>) or an unacceptable plan of action. If an unfavourable sign was given, the magistrate could repeat the sacrifice until favourable signs were seen, consult with his augural colleagues, or abandon the project. Magistrates could use their right of augury (<i>ius augurum</i>) to adjourn and overturn the process of law, but were obliged to base their decision on the augur's observations and advice. For Cicero, himself an augur, this made the augur the most powerful authority in the Late Republic.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By his time (mid 1st century BC) augury was supervised by the college of <i><a href="/wiki/Pontifices" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontifices">pontifices</a></i>, whose powers were increasingly woven into the magistracies of the <i><a href="/wiki/Cursus_honorum" title="Cursus honorum">cursus honorum</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Brent,_21-25_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brent,_21-25-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Haruspicy">Haruspicy</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Haruspicy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Haruspex" title="Haruspex">Haruspex</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Piacenza_Bronzeleber.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Piacenza_Bronzeleber.jpg/220px-Piacenza_Bronzeleber.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Piacenza_Bronzeleber.jpg/330px-Piacenza_Bronzeleber.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Piacenza_Bronzeleber.jpg/440px-Piacenza_Bronzeleber.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1914" data-file-height="1266" /></a><figcaption>The bronze <a href="/wiki/Liver_of_Piacenza" title="Liver of Piacenza">Liver of Piacenza</a> is an Etruscan artifact that probably served as an instructional model for the haruspex</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Haruspex" title="Haruspex">Haruspicy</a> was also used in public cult, under the supervision of the augur or presiding magistrate. The haruspices divined the will of the gods through examination of entrails after sacrifice, particularly the liver. They also interpreted omens, prodigies and portents, and formulated their expiation. Most Roman authors describe haruspicy as an ancient, ethnically Etruscan "outsider" religious profession, separate from Rome's internal and largely unpaid priestly hierarchy, essential but never quite respectable.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the mid-to-late Republic, the reformist <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Gracchus" title="Gaius Gracchus">Gaius Gracchus</a>, the populist politician-general <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Marius" title="Gaius Marius">Gaius Marius</a> and his antagonist <a href="/wiki/Sulla" title="Sulla">Sulla</a>, and the "notorious <a href="/wiki/Verres" class="mw-redirect" title="Verres">Verres</a>" justified their very different policies by the divinely inspired utterances of private diviners. The Senate and armies used the public haruspices: at some time during the late Republic, the Senate decreed that Roman boys of noble family be sent to Etruria for training in haruspicy and divination. Being of independent means, they would be better motivated to maintain a pure, religious practice for the public good.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The motives of private haruspices – especially females – and their clients were officially suspect: none of this seems to have troubled Marius, who employed a Syrian prophetess.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Omens_and_prodigies">Omens and prodigies</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Omens and prodigies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Omen" title="Omen">Omens</a> observed within or from a divine augural templum – especially the flight of birds – were sent by the gods in response to official queries. A magistrate with <i>ius augurium</i> (the right of augury) could declare the suspension of all official business for the day (<i>obnuntiato</i>) if he deemed the omens unfavourable.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Conversely, an apparently negative omen could be re-interpreted as positive, or deliberately blocked from sight.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Prodigy_(divination)" class="mw-redirect" title="Prodigy (divination)">Prodigies</a> were transgressions in the natural, predictable order of the cosmos – signs of divine anger that portended conflict and misfortune. The Senate decided whether a reported prodigy was false, or genuine and in the public interest, in which case it was referred to the public priests, augurs and haruspices for ritual expiation.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 207 BC, during one of the Punic Wars' worst crises, the Senate dealt with an unprecedented number of confirmed prodigies whose expiation would have involved "at least twenty days" of dedicated rites.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Citing <a href="/wiki/Polybius" title="Polybius">Polybius</a>, <a href="/wiki/Livy" title="Livy">Livy</a> records a number of these including a "phantom navy" of ships flying through the sky and an ox climbing to the third story of a home. Later historians viewed these accounts as superstitious reactions to the unfolding military crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Livy presents these as signs of widespread failure in Roman <i>religio</i>. The major prodigies included the spontaneous combustion of weapons, the apparent shrinking of the sun's disc, two moons in a daylit sky, a cosmic battle between sun and moon, a rain of red-hot stones, a bloody sweat on statues, and blood in fountains and on ears of corn: all were expiated by sacrifice of "greater victims". The minor prodigies were less warlike but equally unnatural; sheep become goats, a hen become a <a href="/wiki/Rooster" class="mw-redirect" title="Rooster">cock</a> (and vice versa) – these were expiated with "lesser victims". The discovery of an androgynous four-year-old child was expiated by its drowning<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the holy procession of 27 virgins to the temple of <a href="/wiki/Juno_(mythology)#Epithets" title="Juno (mythology)">Juno Regina</a>, singing a hymn to avert disaster: a lightning strike during the hymn rehearsals required further expiation.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Religious restitution is proved only by Rome's victory.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the wider context of Graeco-Roman religious culture, Rome's earliest reported portents and prodigies stand out as atypically dire. Whereas for Romans, a comet presaged misfortune, for Greeks it might equally signal a divine or exceptionally fortunate birth.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the late Republic, a daytime comet at the murdered Julius Caesar's funeral games confirmed his deification; a discernible Greek influence on Roman interpretation.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mystery_religions">Mystery religions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Mystery religions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Villa_dei_Misteri_V_-_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Villa_dei_Misteri_V_-_2.jpg/220px-Villa_dei_Misteri_V_-_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Villa_dei_Misteri_V_-_2.jpg/330px-Villa_dei_Misteri_V_-_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Villa_dei_Misteri_V_-_2.jpg/440px-Villa_dei_Misteri_V_-_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2201" data-file-height="3107" /></a><figcaption>Female figure, veiled and seemingly alarmed, from a wall-painting usually described as a narrative from Dionysiac/Bacchic mystery cult, which might also involve <a href="/wiki/Ariadne" title="Ariadne">Ariadne</a> and a marriage. There is "almost no agreement about how it works in detail". From Pompeii's "Villa of the Mysteries"<sup id="cite_ref-Beard_et_al.,_Vol._1,3;_161-163_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beard_et_al.,_Vol._1,3;_161-163-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Most of Rome's mystery cults were derived from Greek originals, adopted by individuals as private, or were formally adopted as public.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mystery cults operated through a hierarchy consisting of transference of knowledge, virtues and powers to those initiated through secret rites of passage, which might employ dance, music, intoxicants and theatrical effects to provoke an overwhelming sense of religious awe, revelation and eventual <a href="/wiki/Catharsis" title="Catharsis">catharsis</a>. The cult of <a href="/wiki/Mithraism" title="Mithraism">Mithras</a> was among the most notable, particularly popular among soldiers and based on the Zoroastrian deity, <a href="/wiki/Mithra" title="Mithra">Mithra</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_105-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some of Rome's most prominent deities had both public and mystery rites. Magna Mater, conscripted to help Rome defeat Carthage in the second Punic War, arrived in Rome with her consort, <a href="/wiki/Attis" title="Attis">Attis</a>, and their joint "foreign", non-citizen priesthood, known as <a href="/wiki/Galli" title="Galli">Galli</a>. Despite her presumed status as an ancestral, Trojan goddess, a priesthood was drawn from Rome's highest echelons to supervise her cult and festivals. These may have been considered too exotically "barbaric" to trust, and were barred to slaves.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For the Galli, full priesthood involved self-castration, illegal for Romans of any class. Later, citizens could pay for <a href="/wiki/Taurobolium" title="Taurobolium">the costly sacrifice of a bull</a> or the lesser sacrifice of a ram, as a substitute for the acolyte's self-castration. Magna Mater's initiates tended to be very well-off, and relatively uncommon; they included the emperor <a href="/wiki/Julian_(emperor)" title="Julian (emperor)">Julian</a>. Initiates to Attis' cult were more numerous and less wealthy, and acted as assistant citizen-priests in their deity's "exotic" festivals, some of which involved the Galli's public, bloody self-flagellation.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rome's native cults to the grain goddess <a href="/wiki/Ceres_(mythology)" title="Ceres (mythology)">Ceres</a> and her daughter <a href="/wiki/Libera_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Libera (mythology)">Libera</a> were supplemented with a mystery cult of Ceres-with-Proserpina, based on the Greek <a href="/wiki/Eleusinian_mysteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Eleusinian mysteries">Eleusinian mysteries</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thesmophoria" title="Thesmophoria">Thesmophoria</a>, introduced in 205 BC and led at first by ethnically Greek priestesses from <i>Graeca magna</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Eleusinian mysteries are also the likely source for the <a href="/wiki/Mysteries_of_Isis" title="Mysteries of Isis">mysteries of Isis</a>, which employed symbols and rites that were nominally Egyptian. Aspects of the Isis mysteries are almost certainly described in <a href="/wiki/Appuleius" title="Appuleius">Appuleius</a>' novel, <a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Ass" title="The Golden Ass">The Golden Ass</a>. Such cults were mistrusted by Rome's authorities as quasi-magical, potentially seductive and emotionally based, rather than practical. </p><p>The wall-paintings in Pompeii's "Villa of the Mysteries" could have functioned equally as religious inspiration, instruction, and high quality domestic decor (described by Beard as "expensive wallpaper"). They also attest to an increasingly personal, even domestic experience of religion, whether or not they were ever part of organised cult meetings. The paintings probably represent the once-notorious, independent, popular <a href="/wiki/Bacchanalia" title="Bacchanalia">Bacchanalia</a> mysteries, forcibly brought under the direct control of Rome's civil and religious authorities, 100 years before.<sup id="cite_ref-Beard_et_al.,_Vol._1,3;_161-163_103-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beard_et_al.,_Vol._1,3;_161-163-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A common theme among the eastern mystery religions present in Rome became disillusionment with material possessions, a focus on death and a preoccupation with regards to the afterlife. These attributes later led to the appeal to Christianity, which in its early stages was often viewed as mystery religion itself.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_105-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Funerals_and_the_afterlife">Funerals and the afterlife</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Funerals and the afterlife"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Roman_funerals_and_burial" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman funerals and burial">Roman funerals and burial</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stele_Licinia_Amias_Terme_67646.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Stele_Licinia_Amias_Terme_67646.jpg/220px-Stele_Licinia_Amias_Terme_67646.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="191" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Stele_Licinia_Amias_Terme_67646.jpg/330px-Stele_Licinia_Amias_Terme_67646.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Stele_Licinia_Amias_Terme_67646.jpg/440px-Stele_Licinia_Amias_Terme_67646.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2100" data-file-height="1825" /></a><figcaption>This funerary <a href="/wiki/Stele" title="Stele">stele</a>, one of the <a href="/wiki/Early_Christian_inscriptions" title="Early Christian inscriptions">earliest Christian inscriptions</a> (3rd century), combines the traditional abbreviation <i>D. M.</i>, for <i>Dis Manibus</i>, "to the <a href="/wiki/Manes" title="Manes">Manes</a>," with the Christian motto <i>Ikhthus zōntōn</i> ("fish of the living") in Greek; the deceased's name is in Latin.</figcaption></figure> <p>Roman beliefs about an afterlife varied, and are known mostly for the educated elite who expressed their views in terms of their chosen philosophy. The traditional care of the dead, however, and the perpetuation after death of their status in life were part of the most archaic practices of Roman religion. Ancient votive deposits to the noble dead of Latium and Rome suggest elaborate and costly funeral offerings and banquets in the company of the deceased, an expectation of afterlife and their association with the gods.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As Roman society developed, its Republican nobility tended to invest less in spectacular funerals and extravagant housing for their dead, and more on monumental endowments to the community, such as the donation of a temple or public building whose donor was commemorated by his statue and inscribed name.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Persons of low or negligible status might receive simple burial, with such grave goods as relatives could afford. </p><p>Funeral and commemorative rites varied according to wealth, status and religious context. In Cicero's time, the better-off sacrificed a sow at the funeral pyre before cremation. The dead consumed their portion in the flames of the pyre, Ceres her portion through the flame of her altar, and the family at the site of the cremation. For the less well-off, inhumation with "a libation of wine, incense, and fruit or crops was sufficient". Ceres functioned as an intermediary between the realms of the living and the dead: the deceased had not yet fully passed to the world of the dead and could share a last meal with the living. The ashes (or body) were entombed or buried. On the eighth day of mourning, the family offered further sacrifice, this time on the ground; the shade of the departed was assumed to have passed from the world of the living into the underworld, as one of the <i>di Manes</i>, underworld spirits; the ancestral <i>manes</i> of families were celebrated and appeased at their cemeteries or tombs, in the obligatory <a href="/wiki/Parentalia" title="Parentalia">Parentalia</a>, a multi-day festival of remembrance in February.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A standard Roman funerary inscription is <i>Dis Manibus</i> (to the Manes-gods). Regional variations include its Greek equivalent, <i>theoîs katachthoníois</i><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Lugdunum" title="Lugdunum">Lugdunum</a>'s commonplace but mysterious "dedicated under the trowel" <i>(sub ascia dedicare)</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the later Imperial era, the burial and commemorative practises of Christian and non-Christians overlapped. Tombs were shared by Christian and non-Christian family members, and the traditional funeral rites and feast of <i>novemdialis</i> found a part-match in the Christian <i>Constitutio Apostolica</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The customary offers of wine and food to the dead continued; St Augustine (following St Ambrose) feared that this invited the "drunken" practices of Parentalia but commended funeral feasts as a Christian opportunity to give alms of food to the poor. Christians attended Parentalia and its accompanying <a href="/wiki/Feralia" title="Feralia">Feralia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Caristia" title="Caristia">Caristia</a> in sufficient numbers for the <a href="/wiki/Second_Council_of_Tours" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Council of Tours">Council of Tours</a> to forbid them in AD 567. Other funerary and commemorative practices were very different. Traditional Roman practice spurned the corpse as a ritual pollution; inscriptions noted the day of birth and duration of life. The Christian Church fostered the veneration of saintly <a href="/wiki/Relic" title="Relic">relics</a>, and inscriptions marked the day of death as a transition to "new life".<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religion_and_the_military">Religion and the military</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Religion and the military"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ML_-_Genius_Legion.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/ML_-_Genius_Legion.jpg/170px-ML_-_Genius_Legion.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="333" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/ML_-_Genius_Legion.jpg/255px-ML_-_Genius_Legion.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/ML_-_Genius_Legion.jpg/340px-ML_-_Genius_Legion.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1284" data-file-height="2512" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Genius_(mythology)" title="Genius (mythology)">genius</a> of the legion (2nd–3rd century CE)</figcaption></figure> <p>Military success was achieved through a combination of personal and collective <i>virtus</i> (roughly, "manly virtue") and the divine will: lack of <i>virtus</i>, civic or private negligence in <i>religio</i> and the growth of <i>superstitio</i> provoked divine wrath and led to military disaster. Military success was the touchstone of a special relationship with the gods, and to Jupiter Capitolinus in particular; triumphal generals were dressed as Jupiter, and laid their victor's laurels at his feet.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Roman commanders offered vows to be fulfilled after success in battle or siege; and further vows to expiate their failures. <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Furius_Camillus" title="Marcus Furius Camillus">Camillus</a> promised Veii's goddess Juno a temple in Rome as incentive for her desertion <i>(<a href="/wiki/Evocatio" class="mw-redirect" title="Evocatio">evocatio</a>)</i>, conquered the city in her name, brought her cult statue to Rome "with miraculous ease" and dedicated a temple to her on the Aventine Hill.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Roman camps followed a standard pattern for defense and religious ritual; in effect they were Rome in miniature. The commander's headquarters stood at the centre; he took the auspices on a dais in front. A small building behind housed the legionary standards, the divine images used in religious rites and in the Imperial era, the image of the ruling emperor. In one camp, this shrine is even called Capitolium. The most important camp-offering appears to have been the <i>suovetaurilia</i> performed before a major, set battle. A ram, a boar and a bull were ritually garlanded, led around the outer perimeter of the camp (a <i>lustratio exercitus</i>) and in through a gate, then sacrificed: Trajan's column shows three such events from his Dacian wars. The perimeter procession and sacrifice suggest the entire camp as a divine <i>templum</i>; all within are purified and protected.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:010_Conrad_Cichorius,_Die_Reliefs_der_Traianss%C3%A4ule,_Tafel_X.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/010_Conrad_Cichorius%2C_Die_Reliefs_der_Traianss%C3%A4ule%2C_Tafel_X.jpg/350px-010_Conrad_Cichorius%2C_Die_Reliefs_der_Traianss%C3%A4ule%2C_Tafel_X.jpg" decoding="async" width="350" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/010_Conrad_Cichorius%2C_Die_Reliefs_der_Traianss%C3%A4ule%2C_Tafel_X.jpg/525px-010_Conrad_Cichorius%2C_Die_Reliefs_der_Traianss%C3%A4ule%2C_Tafel_X.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/010_Conrad_Cichorius%2C_Die_Reliefs_der_Traianss%C3%A4ule%2C_Tafel_X.jpg/700px-010_Conrad_Cichorius%2C_Die_Reliefs_der_Traianss%C3%A4ule%2C_Tafel_X.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="945" /></a><figcaption>Panel from <a href="/wiki/Trajan%27s_Column" title="Trajan's Column">Trajan's Column</a> depicting the <a href="/wiki/Lustrum" title="Lustrum">lustral</a> procession of the <i><a href="/wiki/Suovetaurilia" title="Suovetaurilia">suovetaurilia</a></i> victims under military standards</figcaption></figure> <p>Each camp had its own religious personnel; standard bearers, priestly officers and their assistants, including a haruspex, and housekeepers of shrines and images. A senior magistrate-commander (sometimes even a consul) headed it, his chain of subordinates ran it and a ferocious system of training and discipline ensured that every citizen-soldier knew his duty. As in Rome, whatever gods he served in his own time seem to have been his own business; legionary forts and <i>vici</i> included shrines to household gods, personal deities and deities otherwise unknown.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From the earliest Imperial era, citizen legionaries and provincial auxiliaries gave cult to the emperor and his <i>familia</i> on Imperial accessions, anniversaries and their renewal of annual vows. They celebrated Rome's official festivals <i>in absentia</i>, and had the official triads appropriate to their function – in the Empire, Jupiter, <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(mythology)" title="Victoria (mythology)">Victoria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Concordia_(mythology)" title="Concordia (mythology)">Concordia</a> were typical. By the early Severan era, the military also offered cult to the Imperial <i>divi</i>, the current emperor's <i>numen</i>, <i>genius</i> and <i>domus</i> (or <i>familia</i>), and special cult to the Empress as "mother of the camp". The near ubiquitous legionary shrines to <a href="/wiki/Mithras" class="mw-redirect" title="Mithras">Mithras</a> of the later Imperial era were not part of official cult until Mithras was absorbed into <a href="/wiki/Sol_Invictus" title="Sol Invictus">Solar</a> and Stoic <a href="/wiki/Monism" title="Monism">Monism</a> as a focus of military <a href="/wiki/Concordia_(mythology)" title="Concordia (mythology)"><i>concordia</i></a> and Imperial loyalty.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jupiter_dolichenus_3rd_century_Carnuntum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Jupiter_dolichenus_3rd_century_Carnuntum.jpg/170px-Jupiter_dolichenus_3rd_century_Carnuntum.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="409" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Jupiter_dolichenus_3rd_century_Carnuntum.jpg/255px-Jupiter_dolichenus_3rd_century_Carnuntum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Jupiter_dolichenus_3rd_century_Carnuntum.jpg/340px-Jupiter_dolichenus_3rd_century_Carnuntum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="957" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>A votive statue of <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_Dolichenus" title="Jupiter Dolichenus">Jupiter Dolichenus</a> dedicated by a <a href="/wiki/Centurion" title="Centurion">centurion</a> for the wellbeing of the emperor (<a href="/wiki/Carnuntum" title="Carnuntum">Carnuntum</a>, 3rd century)</figcaption></figure> <p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Devotio" title="Devotio">devotio</a></i> was the most extreme offering a Roman general could make, promising to offer his own life in battle along with the enemy as an offering to the underworld gods. Livy offers a detailed account of the <i>devotio</i> carried out by <a href="/wiki/Publius_Decius_Mus_(consul_340_BC)" title="Publius Decius Mus (consul 340 BC)">Decius Mus</a>; family tradition maintained that <a href="/wiki/Publius_Decius_Mus_(consul_312_BC)" title="Publius Decius Mus (consul 312 BC)">his son</a> and <a href="/wiki/Publius_Decius_Mus_(consul_279_BC)" title="Publius Decius Mus (consul 279 BC)">grandson</a>, all bearing the same name, also devoted themselves. Before the battle, Decius is granted a prescient dream that reveals his fate. When he offers sacrifice, the victim's liver appears "damaged where it refers to his own fortunes". Otherwise, the haruspex tells him, the sacrifice is entirely acceptable to the gods. In a <a href="/wiki/Novensiles#The_invocation_of_Decius_Mus" title="Novensiles">prayer recorded by Livy</a>, Decius commits himself and the enemy to the <i>dii <a href="/wiki/Manes" title="Manes">Manes</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Terra_(mythology)" title="Terra (mythology)">Tellus</a>, charges alone and headlong into the enemy ranks, and is killed; his action cleanses the sacrificial offering. Had he failed to die, his sacrificial offering would have been tainted and therefore void, with possibly disastrous consequences.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The act of <i>devotio</i> is a link between military ethics and those of the Roman <a href="/wiki/Gladiator#Gladiators_and_the_military" title="Gladiator">gladiator</a>. </p><p>The efforts of military commanders to channel the divine will were on occasion less successful. In the early days of Rome's war against Carthage, the commander <a href="/wiki/Publius_Claudius_Pulcher_(consul_249_BC)" title="Publius Claudius Pulcher (consul 249 BC)">Publius Claudius Pulcher (consul 249 BC)</a> launched a sea campaign "though the sacred chickens would not eat when he took the auspices". In defiance of the omen, he threw them into the sea, "saying that they might drink, since they would not eat. He was defeated, and on being bidden by the Senate to appoint a dictator, he appointed his messenger Glycias, as if again making a jest of his country's peril." His impiety not only lost the battle but ruined his career.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Women_and_religion">Women and religion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Women and religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Women_in_ancient_Rome#Religious_life" title="Women in ancient Rome">Women in ancient Rome § Religious life</a></div> <p>Roman women were present at most festivals and cult observances. Some rituals specifically required the presence of women, but their active participation was limited. As a rule women did not perform animal sacrifice, the central rite of most major public ceremonies.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to the public priesthood of the Vestals, some cult practices were reserved for women only. The rites of the <a href="/wiki/Bona_Dea" title="Bona Dea">Bona Dea</a> excluded men entirely.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because women enter the public record less frequently than men, their religious practices are less known, and even family cults were headed by the <i>paterfamilias</i>. A host of deities, however, are associated with motherhood. <a href="/wiki/Juno_(mythology)" title="Juno (mythology)">Juno</a>, <a href="/wiki/Diana_(mythology)" title="Diana (mythology)">Diana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lucina_(goddess)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucina (goddess)">Lucina</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Roman_birth_and_childhood_deities" title="List of Roman birth and childhood deities">specialized divine attendants</a> presided over the life-threatening act of giving birth and the perils of caring for a baby at a time when the infant mortality rate was as high as 40 percent. </p><p>Literary sources vary in their depiction of women's religiosity: some represent women as paragons of Roman virtue and devotion, but also inclined by temperament to self-indulgent religious enthusiasms, novelties and the seductions of <i>superstitio</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Superstitio_and_magic"><i>Superstitio</i> and magic</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Superstitio and magic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Magic_in_the_Greco-Roman_world" title="Magic in the Greco-Roman world">Magic in the Greco-Roman world</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pompeii_-_Villa_del_Cicerone_-_Mosaic_-_MAN.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Pompeii_-_Villa_del_Cicerone_-_Mosaic_-_MAN.jpg/280px-Pompeii_-_Villa_del_Cicerone_-_Mosaic_-_MAN.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Pompeii_-_Villa_del_Cicerone_-_Mosaic_-_MAN.jpg/420px-Pompeii_-_Villa_del_Cicerone_-_Mosaic_-_MAN.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Pompeii_-_Villa_del_Cicerone_-_Mosaic_-_MAN.jpg/560px-Pompeii_-_Villa_del_Cicerone_-_Mosaic_-_MAN.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2799" data-file-height="2133" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mosaic" title="Mosaic">Mosaic</a> from <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a> depicting masked characters in a scene from a play: two women consult a witch</figcaption></figure> <p>Excessive devotion and enthusiasm in religious observance were <i><a href="/wiki/Superstitio" class="mw-redirect" title="Superstitio">superstitio</a></i>, in the sense of "doing or believing more than was necessary",<sup id="cite_ref-Rüpke,_in_Rüpke_ed,_5_129-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rüpke,_in_Rüpke_ed,_5-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to which women and foreigners were considered particularly prone.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The boundary between <i>religio</i> and <i>superstitio</i> is not clearly defined. The famous tirade of <a href="/wiki/Lucretius" title="Lucretius">Lucretius</a>, the Epicurean rationalist, against what is usually translated as "superstition" was in fact aimed at excessive <i>religio</i>. Roman religion was based on knowledge rather than faith,<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but <i>superstitio</i> was viewed as an "inappropriate desire for knowledge"; in effect, an abuse of <i>religio</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Rüpke,_in_Rüpke_ed,_5_129-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rüpke,_in_Rüpke_ed,_5-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the everyday world, many individuals sought to divine the future, influence it through magic, or seek vengeance with help from "private" diviners. The state-sanctioned taking of auspices was a form of public divination with the intent of ascertaining the will of the gods, not foretelling the future. Secretive consultations between private diviners and their clients were thus suspect. So were divinatory techniques such as astrology when used for illicit, subversive or magical purposes. Astrologers and magicians were officially expelled from Rome at various times, notably in 139 BC and 33 BC. In 16 BC Tiberius expelled them under extreme penalty because an astrologer had predicted his death. "Egyptian rites" were particularly suspect: Augustus banned them within the <i>pomerium</i> to doubtful effect; Tiberius repeated and extended the ban with extreme force in AD 19.<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite several Imperial bans, magic and astrology persisted among all social classes. In the late 1st century AD, Tacitus observed that astrologers "would always be banned and always retained at Rome".<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the Graeco-Roman world, practitioners of magic were known as <i><a href="/wiki/Magi" title="Magi">magi</a></i> (singular <i>magus</i>), a "foreign" title of Persian priests. <a href="/wiki/Apuleius" title="Apuleius">Apuleius</a>, defending himself against accusations of casting magic spells, defined the magician as "in popular tradition <i>(more vulgari)</i>... someone who, because of his community of speech with the immortal gods, has an incredible power of spells (<i>vi cantaminum</i>) for everything he wishes to."<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny the Elder</a> offers a thoroughly skeptical "History of magical arts" from their supposed Persian origins to Nero's vast and futile expenditure on research into magical practices in an attempt to control the gods.<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Philostratus" title="Philostratus">Philostratus</a> takes pains to point out that the celebrated <a href="/wiki/Apollonius_of_Tyana" title="Apollonius of Tyana">Apollonius of Tyana</a> was definitely not a <i>magus</i>, "despite his special knowledge of the future, his miraculous cures, and his ability to vanish into thin air".<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Lucan" title="Lucan">Lucan</a> depicts <a href="/wiki/Sextus_Pompeius" class="mw-redirect" title="Sextus Pompeius">Sextus Pompeius</a>, the doomed son of <a href="/wiki/Pompey_the_Great" class="mw-redirect" title="Pompey the Great">Pompey the Great</a>, as convinced "the gods of heaven knew too little" and awaiting the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Pharsalus" title="Battle of Pharsalus">Battle of Pharsalus</a> by consulting with the <a href="/wiki/Thessaly" title="Thessaly">Thessalian</a> witch <a href="/wiki/Erichtho" title="Erichtho">Erichtho</a>, who practices <a href="/wiki/Necromancy" title="Necromancy">necromancy</a> and inhabits deserted graves, feeding on rotting corpses. Erichtho, it is said, can arrest "the rotation of the heavens and the flow of rivers" and make "austere old men blaze with illicit passions". She and her clients are portrayed as undermining the natural order of gods, mankind and destiny. A female foreigner from Thessaly, notorious for witchcraft, Erichtho is the stereotypical witch of Latin literature,<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> along with Horace's Canidia. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Magical_book_Kircherian_Terme.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Magical_book_Kircherian_Terme.jpg/220px-Magical_book_Kircherian_Terme.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Magical_book_Kircherian_Terme.jpg/330px-Magical_book_Kircherian_Terme.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Magical_book_Kircherian_Terme.jpg/440px-Magical_book_Kircherian_Terme.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1992" data-file-height="1550" /></a><figcaption>Bound tablets with magic inscriptions from late antiquity</figcaption></figure> <p>The Twelve Tables forbade any harmful incantation (<i><a href="/wiki/Malum_carmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Malum carmen">malum carmen</a></i>, or 'noisome metrical charm'); this included the "charming of crops from one field to another" (<i>excantatio frugum</i>) and any rite that sought harm or death to others. <a href="/wiki/Chthonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Chthonic">Chthonic</a> deities functioned at the margins of Rome's divine and human communities; although sometimes the recipients of public rites, these were conducted outside the sacred boundary of the <i>pomerium</i>. Individuals seeking their aid did so away from the public gaze, during the hours of darkness. Burial grounds and isolated crossroads were among the likely portals.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The barrier between private religious practices and "magic" is permeable, and Ovid gives a vivid account of rites at the fringes of the public <a href="/wiki/Feralia" title="Feralia">Feralia</a> festival that are indistinguishable from magic: an old woman <a href="/wiki/Squatting_position" title="Squatting position">squats</a> among a circle of younger women, sews up a fish-head, smears it with pitch, then pierces and roasts it to "bind hostile tongues to silence". By this she invokes Tacita, the "Silent One" of the underworld. </p><p>Archaeology confirms the widespread use of binding spells (<i><a href="/wiki/Defixiones" class="mw-redirect" title="Defixiones">defixiones</a></i>), <a href="/wiki/Greek_Magical_Papyri" title="Greek Magical Papyri">magical papyri</a> and so-called "voodoo dolls" from a very early era. Around 250 <i>defixiones</i> have been recovered just from <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Roman Britain</a>, in both urban and rural settings. Some seek straightforward, usually gruesome revenge, often for a lover's offense or rejection. Others appeal for divine redress of wrongs, in terms familiar to any Roman magistrate, and promise a portion of the value (usually small) of lost or stolen property in return for its restoration. None of these <i>defixiones</i> seem produced by, or on behalf of the elite, who had more immediate recourse to human law and justice. Similar traditions existed throughout the empire, persisting until around the 7th century AD, well into the Christian era.<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_of_Roman_religion">History of Roman religion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: History of Roman religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion_and_politics">Religion and politics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Religion and politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wall_painting_-_Dionysos_with_Helios_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_(VII_2_16)_-_Napoli_MAN_9449_-_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Wall_painting_-_Dionysos_with_Helios_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_%28VII_2_16%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9449_-_01.jpg/220px-Wall_painting_-_Dionysos_with_Helios_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_%28VII_2_16%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9449_-_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="239" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Wall_painting_-_Dionysos_with_Helios_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_%28VII_2_16%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9449_-_01.jpg/330px-Wall_painting_-_Dionysos_with_Helios_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_%28VII_2_16%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9449_-_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Wall_painting_-_Dionysos_with_Helios_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_%28VII_2_16%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9449_-_01.jpg/440px-Wall_painting_-_Dionysos_with_Helios_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_%28VII_2_16%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9449_-_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3361" data-file-height="3656" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a> (Bacchus) with long torch sitting on a throne, with <a href="/wiki/Helios" title="Helios">Helios</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sol_(Roman_mythology)" title="Sol (Roman mythology)">Sol</a>), <a href="/wiki/Aphrodite" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a> (<a href="/wiki/Venus_(mythology)" title="Venus (mythology)">Venus</a>) and other gods. Wall-painting from <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a>, Italy</figcaption></figure> <p>Rome's government, politics and religion were dominated by an educated, male, landowning military aristocracy. Approximately half of Rome's population were slave or free non-citizens. Most others were <a href="/wiki/Plebeians" title="Plebeians">plebeians</a>, the lowest class of Roman citizens. Less than a quarter of adult males had voting rights; far fewer could actually exercise them. Women had no vote.<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, all official business was conducted under the divine gaze and auspices, in the name of the Senate and people of Rome. "In a very real sense the senate was the caretaker of the Romans’ relationship with the divine, just as it was the caretaker of their relationship with other humans".<sup id="cite_ref-143" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The links between religious and political life were vital to Rome's internal governance, diplomacy and development from kingdom, to Republic and to Empire. Post-regal politics dispersed the civil and religious authority of the kings more or less equitably among the patrician elite: kingship was replaced by two annually elected consular offices. In the early Republic, as presumably in the regal era, plebeians were excluded from high religious and civil office, and could be punished for offenses against laws of which they had no knowledge.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They resorted to <a href="/wiki/Conflict_of_the_Orders" title="Conflict of the Orders">strikes and violence</a> to break the oppressive patrician monopolies of high office, public priesthood, and knowledge of civil and religious law. The Senate appointed <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Furius_Camillus" title="Marcus Furius Camillus">Camillus</a> as <a href="/wiki/Roman_dictator" title="Roman dictator">dictator</a> to handle the emergency; he negotiated a settlement, and sanctified it by the dedication of a temple to <a href="/wiki/Concordia_(mythology)" title="Concordia (mythology)">Concordia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The religious calendars and <a href="/wiki/Twelve_Tables" title="Twelve Tables">laws</a> were eventually made public. <a href="/wiki/Tribune_of_the_plebs" title="Tribune of the plebs">Plebeian tribunes</a> were appointed, with sacrosanct status and the right of veto in legislative debate. In principle, the augural and pontifical colleges were now open to plebeians.<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In reality, the patrician and to a lesser extent, plebeian nobility dominated religious and civil office throughout the Republican era and beyond.<sup id="cite_ref-147" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%E5%B7%B4%E8%B2%9D%E5%85%8B%E7%A5%9E%E6%AE%BF8591_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/%E5%B7%B4%E8%B2%9D%E5%85%8B%E7%A5%9E%E6%AE%BF8591_%282%29.jpg/220px-%E5%B7%B4%E8%B2%9D%E5%85%8B%E7%A5%9E%E6%AE%BF8591_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/%E5%B7%B4%E8%B2%9D%E5%85%8B%E7%A5%9E%E6%AE%BF8591_%282%29.jpg/330px-%E5%B7%B4%E8%B2%9D%E5%85%8B%E7%A5%9E%E6%AE%BF8591_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/%E5%B7%B4%E8%B2%9D%E5%85%8B%E7%A5%9E%E6%AE%BF8591_%282%29.jpg/440px-%E5%B7%B4%E8%B2%9D%E5%85%8B%E7%A5%9E%E6%AE%BF8591_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2060" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Bacchus" title="Temple of Bacchus">Temple of Bacchus</a> ("Temple of the Sun"), c. 150 AD</figcaption></figure> <p>While the new plebeian nobility made social, political and religious inroads on traditionally patrician preserves, their electorate maintained their distinctive political traditions and religious cults.<sup id="cite_ref-148" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the Punic crisis, popular cult to <a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a> emerged from southern Italy; Dionysus was equated with <a href="/wiki/Liber" title="Liber">Father Liber</a>, the inventor of plebeian augury and personification of plebeian freedoms, and with Roman <a href="/wiki/Bacchus" class="mw-redirect" title="Bacchus">Bacchus</a>. Official consternation at these enthusiastic, unofficial <a href="/wiki/Bacchanalia" title="Bacchanalia">Bacchanalia</a> cults was expressed as moral outrage at their supposed subversion, and was followed by ferocious suppression. Much later, a statue of <a href="/wiki/Marsyas#Prophecy_and_free_speech_at_Rome" title="Marsyas">Marsyas</a>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Silenus" title="Silenus">silen</a></i> of Dionysus flayed by <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a>, became a focus of brief symbolic resistance to Augustus' censorship. Augustus himself claimed the patronage of Venus and Apollo; but his settlement appealed to all classes. Where loyalty was implicit, no divine hierarchy need be politically enforced; <a href="/wiki/Liberalia" title="Liberalia">Liber's festival</a> continued.<sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Augustan settlement built upon a cultural shift in Roman society. In the middle Republican era, even <a href="/wiki/Scipio_Africanus" title="Scipio Africanus">Scipio</a>'s tentative hints that he might be Jupiter's special protege sat ill with his colleagues.<sup id="cite_ref-151" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Politicians of the later Republic were less equivocal; both <a href="/wiki/Sulla" title="Sulla">Sulla</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pompey" title="Pompey">Pompey</a> claimed special relationships with <a href="/wiki/Venus_(mythology)" title="Venus (mythology)">Venus</a>. Julius Caesar went further; he claimed her as <a href="/wiki/Venus_(mythology)#Epithets" title="Venus (mythology)">his ancestress</a>, and thus an intimate source of divine inspiration for his personal character and policies. In 63 BC, his appointment as <i>pontifex maximus</i> "signaled his emergence as a major player in Roman politics".<sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Likewise, political candidates could sponsor temples, priesthoods and the immensely popular, spectacular public <i>ludi</i> and <i>munera</i> whose provision became increasingly indispensable to the factional politics of the Late Republic.<sup id="cite_ref-153" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under the <a href="/wiki/Principate" title="Principate">principate</a>, such opportunities were limited by law; priestly and political power were consolidated in the person of the princeps ("first citizen"). </p> <blockquote><p>Because of you we are living, because of you we can travel the seas, because of you we enjoy liberty and wealth. —A thanksgiving prayer offered in Naples' harbour to the princeps Augustus, on his return from Alexandria in 14 AD, shortly before his death.<sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_Republic">Early Republic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Early Republic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wall_painting_-_wedding_of_Zeus_and_Hera_-_Pompeii_(VI_8_3)_-_Napoli_MAN_9559_-_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Wall_painting_-_wedding_of_Zeus_and_Hera_-_Pompeii_%28VI_8_3%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9559_-_01.jpg/220px-Wall_painting_-_wedding_of_Zeus_and_Hera_-_Pompeii_%28VI_8_3%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9559_-_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Wall_painting_-_wedding_of_Zeus_and_Hera_-_Pompeii_%28VI_8_3%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9559_-_01.jpg/330px-Wall_painting_-_wedding_of_Zeus_and_Hera_-_Pompeii_%28VI_8_3%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9559_-_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Wall_painting_-_wedding_of_Zeus_and_Hera_-_Pompeii_%28VI_8_3%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9559_-_01.jpg/440px-Wall_painting_-_wedding_of_Zeus_and_Hera_-_Pompeii_%28VI_8_3%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9559_-_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3610" data-file-height="4816" /></a><figcaption>Wedding of <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jupiter</a> King of the Gods, and <a href="/wiki/Juno_(mythology)" title="Juno (mythology)">Juno</a>, Queen of Heaven and goddess of marriage, and women. Fresco in Pompeii</figcaption></figure> <p>By the end of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Kingdom" title="Roman Kingdom">regal period</a> Rome had developed into a city-state, with a large plebeian, artisan class excluded from the old patrician <i><a href="/wiki/Gens" title="Gens">gentes</a></i> and from the state priesthoods. The city had commercial and political treaties with its neighbours; according to tradition, Rome's <a href="/wiki/Etruscan_civilization" title="Etruscan civilization">Etruscan</a> connections established a temple to <a href="/wiki/Minerva" title="Minerva">Minerva</a> on the predominantly plebeian <a href="/wiki/Aventine_hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Aventine hill">Aventine</a>; she became part of a new Capitoline triad of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, installed in a Capitoline temple, built in an <a href="/wiki/Etruscan_architecture" title="Etruscan architecture">Etruscan style</a> and dedicated in a new September festival, <i><a href="/wiki/Epulum_Jovis" title="Epulum Jovis">Epulum Jovis</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These are supposedly the first Roman deities whose images were adorned, as if noble guests, at their own inaugural banquet. </p><p>Rome's diplomatic agreement with its neighbours of <a href="/wiki/Latium" title="Latium">Latium</a> confirmed the <a href="/wiki/Latin_league" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin league">Latin league</a> and brought the cult of <a href="/wiki/Diana_(mythology)" title="Diana (mythology)">Diana</a> from <a href="/wiki/Aricia,_Italy" class="mw-redirect" title="Aricia, Italy">Aricia</a> to the Aventine.<sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and established on the Aventine in the "commune Latinorum Dianae templum":<sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At about the same time, the temple of <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)#Iuppiter_Latiaris_and_Feriae_Latinae" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jupiter Latiaris</a> was built on the <a href="/wiki/Alban_Hills" title="Alban Hills">Alban mount</a>, its stylistic resemblance to the new Capitoline temple pointing to Rome's inclusive hegemony. Rome's affinity to the Latins allowed two Latin cults within the <i><a href="/wiki/Pomerium" title="Pomerium">pomoerium</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cult to <a href="/wiki/Hercules" title="Hercules">Hercules</a> at the <i><a href="/wiki/Great_Altar_of_Hercules" title="Great Altar of Hercules">ara maxima</a></i> in the <a href="/wiki/Forum_Boarium" title="Forum Boarium">Forum Boarium</a> was established through commercial connections with <a href="/wiki/Tibur" class="mw-redirect" title="Tibur">Tibur</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Tusculum" title="Tusculum">Tusculan</a> cult of <a href="/wiki/Castor_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Castor (mythology)">Castor</a> as the patron of cavalry found a home close to the <a href="/wiki/Forum_Romanum" class="mw-redirect" title="Forum Romanum">Forum Romanum</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Juno_Sospita" class="mw-redirect" title="Juno Sospita">Juno Sospita</a> and <a href="/wiki/Juno_Regina" class="mw-redirect" title="Juno Regina">Juno Regina</a> were brought from Italy, and <a href="/wiki/Palestrina#Sanctuary_of_Fortuna_Primigenia" title="Palestrina">Fortuna Primigenia</a> from <a href="/wiki/Praeneste" class="mw-redirect" title="Praeneste">Praeneste</a>. In 217, the Venus of Eryx was brought from Sicily and installed in a temple on the Capitoline hill.<sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_Republic_to_Principate">Later Republic to Principate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Later Republic to Principate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hercules_Nessus_MAN_Napoli_Inv9001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Hercules_Nessus_MAN_Napoli_Inv9001.jpg/220px-Hercules_Nessus_MAN_Napoli_Inv9001.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="291" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Hercules_Nessus_MAN_Napoli_Inv9001.jpg/330px-Hercules_Nessus_MAN_Napoli_Inv9001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Hercules_Nessus_MAN_Napoli_Inv9001.jpg/440px-Hercules_Nessus_MAN_Napoli_Inv9001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2643" data-file-height="3500" /></a><figcaption>A fresco from Pompeii depicting <a href="/wiki/Hercules" title="Hercules">Hercules</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hyllus" title="Hyllus">Hyllus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deianira" title="Deianira">Deianira</a>, and the centaur <a href="/wiki/Nessus_(mythology)" title="Nessus (mythology)">Nessus</a> from <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greco</a>-<a href="/wiki/Roman_mythology" title="Roman mythology">Roman mythology</a>, 30–45 AD</figcaption></figure> <p>The introduction of new or equivalent deities coincided with Rome's most significant aggressive and defensive military forays. Livy attributed the disasters of the early part of Rome's <a href="/wiki/Second_Punic_War" title="Second Punic War">second Punic War</a> to a growth of superstitious cults, errors in augury and the neglect of Rome's traditional gods, whose anger was expressed directly through Rome's defeat at <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae" title="Battle of Cannae">Cannae</a> (216 BC). The Sibylline books were consulted. They recommended a general vowing of the <i><a href="/wiki/Ver_sacrum" title="Ver sacrum">ver sacrum</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in the following year, the living burial of two Greeks and two <a href="/wiki/Gauls" title="Gauls">Gauls</a>; not the first nor the last sacrifice of its kind, according to Livy. </p><p>In 206 BC, during the Punic crisis, the Sibylline books recommended the introduction of a cult to the <a href="/wiki/Magna_Mater" class="mw-redirect" title="Magna Mater">Magna Mater</a> (Great Mother) from <a href="/wiki/Pessinus" title="Pessinus">Pessinus</a>, supposedly an ancestral goddess of Romans and Trojans. She was installed on the <a href="/wiki/Palatine_hill" class="mw-redirect" title="Palatine hill">Palatine</a> in 191 BC. </p><p>Deities with troublesome followers were taken over, not banned. An unofficial, popular mystery cult to <a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Bacchus</a> was officially taken over, restricted and supervised as potentially subversive in 186 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-163"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wall_painting_-_Ares_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_(VII_2_23)_-_Napoli_MAN_9249_-_03.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Wall_painting_-_Ares_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_%28VII_2_23%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9249_-_03.jpg/220px-Wall_painting_-_Ares_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_%28VII_2_23%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9249_-_03.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Wall_painting_-_Ares_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_%28VII_2_23%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9249_-_03.jpg/330px-Wall_painting_-_Ares_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_%28VII_2_23%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9249_-_03.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Wall_painting_-_Ares_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_%28VII_2_23%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9249_-_03.jpg/440px-Wall_painting_-_Ares_and_Aphrodite_-_Pompeii_%28VII_2_23%29_-_Napoli_MAN_9249_-_03.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="5472" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mars_(mythology)" title="Mars (mythology)">Mars</a> caresses Venus enthroned. Wall-painting in Pompeii, c. 20 BC – 50s AD</figcaption></figure> <p>The priesthoods of most Roman deities with clearly Greek origins used an invented version of Greek costume and ritual, which Romans called "Greek rites." The spread of Greek literature, mythology and philosophy offered Roman poets and antiquarians a model for the interpretation of Rome's festivals and rituals, and the embellishment of its mythology. <a href="/wiki/Ennius" title="Ennius">Ennius</a> translated the work of Graeco-Sicilian <a href="/wiki/Euhemerus" title="Euhemerus">Euhemerus</a>, who explained the genesis of the gods as <a href="/wiki/Apotheosis" title="Apotheosis">deified</a> mortals. In the last century of the Republic, <a href="/wiki/Epicureanism" title="Epicureanism">Epicurean</a> and particularly <a href="/wiki/Stoicism" title="Stoicism">Stoic</a> interpretations were a preoccupation of the literate elite, most of whom held – or had held – high office and traditional Roman priesthoods; notably, <a href="/wiki/Quintus_Mucius_Scaevola_Augur" title="Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur">Scaevola</a> and the polymath <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro" title="Marcus Terentius Varro">Varro</a>. For Varro – well versed in Euhemerus' theory – popular religious observance was based on a necessary fiction; what the people believed was not itself the truth, but their observance led them to as much higher truth as their limited capacity could deal with. Whereas in popular belief deities held power over mortal lives, the skeptic might say that mortal devotion had made gods of mortals, and these same gods were only sustained by devotion and cult. </p><p>Just as Rome itself claimed the favour of the gods, so did some individual Romans. In the mid-to-late Republican era, and probably much earlier, many of Rome's leading clans acknowledged a divine or semi-divine ancestor and laid personal claim to their favour and cult, along with a share of their divinity. Most notably in the very late Republic, the <a href="/wiki/Julii" class="mw-redirect" title="Julii">Julii</a> claimed <a href="/wiki/Venus_(mythology)#Epithets" title="Venus (mythology)">Venus Genetrix</a> as an ancestor; this would be one of many foundations for the Imperial cult. The claim was further elaborated and justified in Vergil's poetic, Imperial vision of the past.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Affreschi_romani_-_nettuno_anfitrine_-_pompei.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Affreschi_romani_-_nettuno_anfitrine_-_pompei.JPG/220px-Affreschi_romani_-_nettuno_anfitrine_-_pompei.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Affreschi_romani_-_nettuno_anfitrine_-_pompei.JPG/330px-Affreschi_romani_-_nettuno_anfitrine_-_pompei.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Affreschi_romani_-_nettuno_anfitrine_-_pompei.JPG/440px-Affreschi_romani_-_nettuno_anfitrine_-_pompei.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2124" /></a><figcaption>Fresco of <a href="/wiki/Neptune_(mythology)" title="Neptune (mythology)">Neptune</a> and <a href="/wiki/Salacia" title="Salacia">Salacia</a>, Pompeii</figcaption></figure> <p>In the late Republic, the so-called <a href="/wiki/Marian_reforms" title="Marian reforms">Marian reforms</a> supposedly did the following: lowered an existing property bar on conscription, increased the efficiency of Rome's armies, and made them available as instruments of political ambition and factional conflict.<sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The consequent civil wars led to changes at every level of Roman society. Augustus' <a href="/wiki/Principate" title="Principate">principate</a> established peace and subtly transformed Rome's religious life – or, in the new ideology of Empire, restored it (see <a href="#Imperial_cult">below</a>). </p><p><a href="/wiki/Sissel_Undheim" title="Sissel Undheim">Sissel Undheim</a> has argued that, with their <i>Religions of Rome</i> volumes, <a href="/wiki/Mary_Beard_(classicist)" title="Mary Beard (classicist)">Mary Beard</a>, John North, and <a href="/wiki/Simon_Price_(classicist)" title="Simon Price (classicist)">Simon Price</a> dismantled the well-established narrative of the decline of religious in the late Republic, opening the way for more innovative and dynamic perspectives.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Towards the end of the Republic, religious and political offices became more closely intertwined; the office of <i><a href="/wiki/Pontifex_maximus" title="Pontifex maximus">pontifex maximus</a></i> became a <i>de facto</i> consular prerogative.<sup id="cite_ref-Brent,_21-25_88-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brent,_21-25-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Augustus was personally vested with an extraordinary breadth of political, military and priestly powers; at first temporarily, then for his lifetime. He acquired or was granted an unprecedented number of Rome's major priesthoods, including that of <i>pontifex maximus</i>; as he invented none, he could claim them as traditional honours. His reforms were represented as adaptive, restorative and regulatory, rather than innovative; most notably his elevation (and membership) of the ancient <a href="/wiki/Arval_Brethren" title="Arval Brethren">Arvales</a>, his timely promotion of the plebeian Compitalia shortly before his election and his patronage of the <a href="/wiki/Vestal_Virgins" class="mw-redirect" title="Vestal Virgins">Vestals</a> as a visible restoration of Roman morality.<sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Augustus obtained the <i>pax deorum</i>, maintained it for the rest of his reign and adopted a successor to ensure its continuation. This remained a primary religious and social duty of emperors. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roman_Empire">Roman Empire</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Roman Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Eastern_Influence">Eastern Influence</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Eastern Influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bellerophon,_Pegasus,_and_Athena.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Bellerophon%2C_Pegasus%2C_and_Athena.jpg/220px-Bellerophon%2C_Pegasus%2C_and_Athena.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="189" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Bellerophon%2C_Pegasus%2C_and_Athena.jpg/330px-Bellerophon%2C_Pegasus%2C_and_Athena.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Bellerophon%2C_Pegasus%2C_and_Athena.jpg/440px-Bellerophon%2C_Pegasus%2C_and_Athena.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bellerophon" title="Bellerophon">Bellerophon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pegasus" title="Pegasus">Pegasus</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a> (<a href="/wiki/Minerva" title="Minerva">Minerva</a>), fresco of the 3rd style from Pompeii, first half of the 1st century</figcaption></figure> <p>Under the rule of Augustus, there existed a deliberate campaign to reinstate previously held belief systems amongst the Roman population. These once held ideals had been eroded and met with cynicism by this time.<sup id="cite_ref-167" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-167"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The imperial order emphasized commemoration of great men and events which led to the concept and practice of divine kingship. Emperors postceding Augustus subsequently held the office of Chief Priest (pontifex maximus) combining both political and religious supremacy under one title.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_105-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Absorption_of_Cults">Absorption of Cults</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Absorption of Cults"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fresque_Mithraeum_Marino.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Fresque_Mithraeum_Marino.jpg/220px-Fresque_Mithraeum_Marino.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Fresque_Mithraeum_Marino.jpg/330px-Fresque_Mithraeum_Marino.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Fresque_Mithraeum_Marino.jpg/440px-Fresque_Mithraeum_Marino.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3224" data-file-height="2160" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mithras" class="mw-redirect" title="Mithras">Mithras</a> in a Roman wall painting</figcaption></figure> <p>The Roman Empire expanded to include different peoples and cultures; in principle, Rome followed the same inclusionist policies that had recognised Latin, Etruscan and other Italian peoples, cults and deities as Roman. Those who acknowledged Rome's hegemony retained their own cult and religious calendars, independent of Roman religious law.<sup id="cite_ref-168" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-168"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Newly municipal <a href="/wiki/Sabratha" title="Sabratha">Sabratha</a> built a Capitolium near its existing temple to <a href="/wiki/Liber_Pater" class="mw-redirect" title="Liber Pater">Liber Pater</a> and <a href="/wiki/Serapis" title="Serapis">Serapis</a>. Autonomy and concord were official policy, but new foundations by Roman citizens or their Romanised allies were likely to follow Roman cultic models.<sup id="cite_ref-169" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-169"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Romanisation offered distinct political and practical advantages, especially to local elites. All the known effigies from the 2nd century AD forum at <a href="/wiki/Cuicul" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuicul">Cuicul</a> are of emperors or <a href="/wiki/Concordia_(mythology)" title="Concordia (mythology)">Concordia</a>. By the middle of the 1st century AD, Gaulish <a href="/wiki/Vertault" title="Vertault">Vertault</a> seems to have abandoned its native cultic sacrifice of horses and dogs in favour of a newly established, Romanised cult nearby: by the end of that century, Sabratha's so-called <a href="/wiki/Tophet" title="Tophet">tophet</a> was no longer in use.<sup id="cite_ref-170" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-170"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Colonial and later Imperial provincial dedications to Rome's Capitoline Triad were a logical choice, not a centralised legal requirement.<sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Major cult centres to "non-Roman" deities continued to prosper: notable examples include the magnificent Alexandrian <a href="/wiki/Serapium" class="mw-redirect" title="Serapium">Serapium</a>, the temple of Aesculapeus at Pergamum and Apollo's sacred wood at Antioch.<sup id="cite_ref-172" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-172"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The overall scarcity of evidence for smaller or local cults does not always imply their neglect; votive inscriptions are inconsistently scattered throughout Rome's geography and history. Inscribed dedications were an expensive public declaration, one to be expected within the Graeco-Roman cultural ambit but by no means universal. Innumerable smaller, personal or more secretive cults would have persisted and left no trace.<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Military settlement within the empire and at its borders broadened the context of <i>Romanitas</i>. Rome's citizen-soldiers set up altars to multiple deities, including their traditional gods, the Imperial genius and local deities – sometimes with the usefully open-ended dedication to the <i>diis deabusque omnibus</i> (all the gods and goddesses). They also brought Roman "domestic" deities and cult practices with them.<sup id="cite_ref-174" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-174"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the same token, the later granting of citizenship to provincials and their conscription into the legions brought their new cults into the Roman military.<sup id="cite_ref-175" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-175"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Traders, legions and other travellers brought home cults originating from Egypt, Greece, Iberia, India and Persia. The cults of <a href="/wiki/Cybele" title="Cybele">Cybele</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isis" title="Isis">Isis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mithras" class="mw-redirect" title="Mithras">Mithras</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sol_Invictus" title="Sol Invictus">Sol Invictus</a> were particularly important. Some of those were initiatory religions of intense personal significance, similar to Christianity in those respects. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Imperial_cult">Imperial cult</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Imperial cult"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Imperial_cult_(Ancient_Rome)" class="mw-redirect" title="Imperial cult (Ancient Rome)">Imperial cult of ancient Rome</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maison_Carree_in_Nimes_(16).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Maison_Carree_in_Nimes_%2816%29.jpg/220px-Maison_Carree_in_Nimes_%2816%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Maison_Carree_in_Nimes_%2816%29.jpg/330px-Maison_Carree_in_Nimes_%2816%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Maison_Carree_in_Nimes_%2816%29.jpg/440px-Maison_Carree_in_Nimes_%2816%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4626" data-file-height="3248" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Maison_Carr%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Maison Carrée">Maison Carrée</a> in <a href="/wiki/N%C3%AEmes" title="Nîmes">Nîmes</a>, one of the best-preserved <a href="/wiki/Roman_temple" title="Roman temple">Roman temples</a>. It is a mid-sized <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustan</a> provincial temple of the Imperial cult.</figcaption></figure> <p>In the early Imperial era, the <a href="/wiki/Princeps" title="Princeps">princeps</a> (lit. "first" or "foremost" among citizens) was offered <i>genius</i>-cult as the symbolic <i>paterfamilias</i> of Rome. His cult had further precedents: popular, unofficial cult offered to powerful benefactors in Rome: the kingly, god-like honours granted a Roman general on the day of his <a href="/wiki/Roman_triumph" title="Roman triumph">triumph</a>; and in the divine honours paid to Roman magnates in the Greek East from at least 195 BC.<sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The deification of deceased emperors had precedent in Roman domestic cult to the <i>dii parentes</i> (deified ancestors) and the mythic <a href="/wiki/Apotheosis" title="Apotheosis">apotheosis</a> of Rome's founders. A deceased emperor granted apotheosis by his successor and the Senate became an official State <i>divus</i> (divinity). Members of the Imperial family could be granted similar honours and cult; an Emperor's deceased wife, sister or daughter could be promoted to <i>diva</i> (female divinity). </p><p>The first and last Roman known as a living <i>divus</i> was <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a>, who seems to have aspired to divine monarchy; he was murdered soon after. Greek allies had their own traditional cults to rulers as divine benefactors, and offered similar cult to Caesar's successor, Augustus, who accepted with the cautious proviso that expatriate Roman citizens refrain from such worship; it might prove fatal.<sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the end of his reign, Augustus had appropriated Rome's political apparatus – and most of its religious cults – within his "reformed" and thoroughly integrated system of government. Towards the end of his life, he cautiously allowed cult to his <i>numen</i>. By then the Imperial cult apparatus was fully developed, first in the Eastern Provinces, then in the West.<sup id="cite_ref-179" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-179"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Provincial Cult centres offered the amenities and opportunities of a major Roman town within a local context; bathhouses, shrines and temples to Roman and local deities, amphitheatres and festivals. In the early Imperial period, the promotion of local elites to Imperial priesthood gave them Roman citizenship.<sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an empire of great religious and cultural diversity, the Imperial cult offered a common Roman identity and dynastic stability. In Rome, the framework of government was recognisably Republican. In the Provinces, this would not have mattered; in Greece, the emperor was "not only endowed with special, super-human abilities, but... he was indeed a visible god" and the little Greek town of <a href="/wiki/Akraiphia" class="mw-redirect" title="Akraiphia">Akraiphia</a> could offer official cult to "liberating Zeus Nero for all eternity".<sup id="cite_ref-181" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-181"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Rome, state cult to a living emperor acknowledged his rule as divinely approved and constitutional. As <a href="/wiki/Princeps" title="Princeps">princeps</a> (first citizen) he must respect traditional Republican mores; given virtually monarchic powers, he must restrain them. He was not a living <i>divus</i> but father of his country (<i>pater patriae</i>), its pontifex maximus (greatest priest) and at least notionally, its leading Republican. When he died, his ascent to heaven, or his descent to join the <i>dii manes</i> was decided by a vote in the Senate. As a <i>divus</i>, he could receive much the same honours as any other state deity – libations of wine, garlands, incense, hymns and sacrificial oxen at games and festivals. What he did in return for these favours is unknown, but literary hints and the later adoption of <i>divus</i> as a title for Christian Saints suggest him as a heavenly intercessor.<sup id="cite_ref-182" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-182"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Rome, official cult to a living emperor was directed to his <i>genius</i>; a small number refused this honour and there is no evidence of any emperor receiving more than that. In the crises leading up to the Dominate, Imperial titles and honours multiplied, reaching a peak under Diocletian. Emperors before him had attempted to guarantee traditional cults as the core of Roman identity and well-being; refusal of cult undermined the state and was treasonous.<sup id="cite_ref-183" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-183"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Jews_and_Roman_religion">Jews and Roman religion</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Jews and Roman religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Fiscus_Judaicus" title="Fiscus Judaicus">Fiscus Judaicus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Religio_licita" title="Religio licita">Religio licita</a>, and <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Roman_Empire" title="History of the Jews in the Roman Empire">History of the Jews in the Roman Empire</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:2nd_century_Rome_gold_goblet_shows_Jewish_ritual_objects.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/2nd_century_Rome_gold_goblet_shows_Jewish_ritual_objects.jpg/220px-2nd_century_Rome_gold_goblet_shows_Jewish_ritual_objects.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/2nd_century_Rome_gold_goblet_shows_Jewish_ritual_objects.jpg/330px-2nd_century_Rome_gold_goblet_shows_Jewish_ritual_objects.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/2nd_century_Rome_gold_goblet_shows_Jewish_ritual_objects.jpg/440px-2nd_century_Rome_gold_goblet_shows_Jewish_ritual_objects.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="629" /></a><figcaption>Jewish ritual objects in 2nd-century <a href="/wiki/Gold_glass" title="Gold glass">gold glass</a> from Rome</figcaption></figure> <p>For at least a century before the establishment of the Augustan principate, Jews and Judaism were tolerated in Rome by diplomatic treaty with Judaea's Hellenised elite. <a href="/wiki/Jewish_diaspora" title="Jewish diaspora">Diaspora Jews</a> had much in common with the overwhelmingly Hellenic or Hellenised communities that surrounded them. Early Italian synagogues have left few traces; but one was dedicated in Ostia around the mid-1st century BC and several more are attested during the Imperial period. Judaea's enrollment as a client kingdom in 63 BC increased the Jewish diaspora; in Rome, this led to closer official scrutiny of their religion. Their synagogues were recognised as legitimate <i>collegia</i> by Julius Caesar. By the Augustan era, the city of Rome was home to several thousand Jews.<sup id="cite_ref-184" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-184"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-185" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-185"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some periods under Roman rule, Jews were legally exempt from official sacrifice, under certain conditions. Judaism was a <i>superstitio</i> to Cicero, but the <a href="/wiki/Church_Father" class="mw-redirect" title="Church Father">Church Father</a> <a href="/wiki/Tertullian" title="Tertullian">Tertullian</a> described it as <i><a href="/wiki/Religio_licita" title="Religio licita">religio licita</a></i> (an officially permitted religion) in contrast to Christianity.<sup id="cite_ref-186" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-186"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Christianity_in_the_Roman_Empire">Christianity in the Roman Empire</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Christianity in the Roman Empire"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Pentarchy" title="Pentarchy">Pentarchy</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_Christianity" title="History of Christianity">History of Christianity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_religion_in_ancient_Rome" class="mw-redirect" title="Persecution of religion in ancient Rome">Persecution of religion in ancient Rome</a>, and <a href="/wiki/State_church_of_the_Roman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="State church of the Roman Empire">State church of the Roman Empire</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_-_The_Christian_Martyrs%27_Last_Prayer_-_Walters_37113.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_-_The_Christian_Martyrs%27_Last_Prayer_-_Walters_37113.jpg/303px-Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_-_The_Christian_Martyrs%27_Last_Prayer_-_Walters_37113.jpg" decoding="async" width="303" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_-_The_Christian_Martyrs%27_Last_Prayer_-_Walters_37113.jpg/455px-Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_-_The_Christian_Martyrs%27_Last_Prayer_-_Walters_37113.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_-_The_Christian_Martyrs%27_Last_Prayer_-_Walters_37113.jpg/606px-Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_-_The_Christian_Martyrs%27_Last_Prayer_-_Walters_37113.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="1050" /></a><figcaption><i>The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer</i>, by <a href="/wiki/Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me" title="Jean-Léon Gérôme">Jean-Léon Gérôme</a> (1883)</figcaption></figure> <p>Roman investigations into early Christianity found it an irreligious, novel, disobedient, even atheistic sub-sect of Judaism: it appeared to deny all forms of religion and was therefore <i>superstitio</i>. By the end of the Imperial era, Nicene Christianity was the one permitted Roman <i>religio</i>; all other cults were heretical or pagan <i>superstitiones</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-187" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-187"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Rome" title="Great Fire of Rome">Great Fire of Rome</a> in 64 AD, Emperor <a href="/wiki/Nero" title="Nero">Nero</a> accused the Christians as convenient scapegoats, who were later <a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians#Persecution_of_early_Christians_by_Romans" title="Persecution of Christians">persecuted</a> and killed. From that point on, Roman official policy towards Christianity tended towards persecution. During the various Imperial crises of the 3rd century, "contemporaries were predisposed to decode any crisis in religious terms", regardless of their allegiance to particular practices or belief systems. Christianity drew its traditional base of support from the powerless, who seemed to have no religious stake in the well-being of the Roman State, and therefore threatened its existence.<sup id="cite_ref-188" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-188"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The majority of Rome's elite continued to observe various forms of inclusive Hellenistic monism; Neoplatonism in particular accommodated the miraculous and the ascetic within a traditional Graeco-Roman cultic framework. Christians saw these practices as ungodly, and a primary cause of economic and political crisis. </p><p>In the wake of religious riots in Egypt, the emperor <a href="/wiki/Decius" title="Decius">Decius</a> decreed that all subjects of the Empire must actively seek to benefit the state through witnessed and certified sacrifice to "ancestral gods" or suffer a penalty: only Jews were exempt.<sup id="cite_ref-189" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-189"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Decius' edict appealed to whatever common <i>mos maiores</i> (ancestors' customs) might reunite a politically and socially fractured Empire and its multitude of cults; no ancestral gods were specified by name. The fulfillment of sacrificial obligation by loyal subjects would define them and their gods as Roman.<sup id="cite_ref-190" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-190"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Apostasy" title="Apostasy">Apostasy</a> was sought, rather than capital punishment.<sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A year after its due deadline, the edict expired.<sup id="cite_ref-193" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-193"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Siemiradski_Fackeln.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Siemiradski_Fackeln.jpg/303px-Siemiradski_Fackeln.jpg" decoding="async" width="303" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Siemiradski_Fackeln.jpg/455px-Siemiradski_Fackeln.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Siemiradski_Fackeln.jpg/606px-Siemiradski_Fackeln.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2105" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Nero%27s_Torches" title="Nero's Torches">Nero's Torches</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/Henryk_Siemiradzki" title="Henryk Siemiradzki">Henryk Siemiradzki</a> (1876). According to Tacitus, Nero used Christians as human torches</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Valerian_(emperor)" title="Valerian (emperor)">Valerian</a> singled out Christianity as a particularly self-interested and subversive foreign cult, outlawed its assemblies and urged Christians to sacrifice to Rome's traditional gods.<sup id="cite_ref-Rees,_60_194-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rees,_60-194"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-195" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-195"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In another edict, he described Christianity as a threat to Empire – not yet at its heart but close to it, among Rome's equites and Senators. Christian apologists interpreted his eventual fate – a disgraceful capture and death – as divine judgement. The next forty years were peaceful; the Christian church grew stronger and its literature and theology gained a higher social and intellectual profile, due in part to its own search for political toleration and theological coherence. <a href="/wiki/Origen" title="Origen">Origen</a> discussed theological issues with traditionalist elites in a common Neoplatonist frame of reference – he had written to Decius' predecessor <a href="/wiki/Philip_the_Arab" title="Philip the Arab">Philip the Arab</a> in similar vein – and Hippolytus recognised a "pagan" basis in Christian heresies.<sup id="cite_ref-196" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-196"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Christian churches were disunited; <a href="/wiki/Paul_of_Samosata" title="Paul of Samosata">Paul of Samosata</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Antioch" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Antioch">Bishop of Antioch</a> was deposed by a synod of 268 both for his doctrines, and for his unworthy, indulgent, elite lifestyle.<sup id="cite_ref-197" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-197"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Meanwhile, <a href="/wiki/Aurelian" title="Aurelian">Aurelian</a> (270–75) appealed for harmony among his soldiers (<i>concordia militum</i>), stabilised the Empire and its borders and successfully established an official, Hellenic form of unitary cult to the <a href="/wiki/Palmyra" title="Palmyra">Palmyrene</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Sol_Invictus" title="Sol Invictus">Sol Invictus</a></i> in Rome's <a href="/wiki/Campus_Martius" title="Campus Martius">Campus Martius</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-198" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-198"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:George_Hare_-_Victory_of_Faith.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/George_Hare_-_Victory_of_Faith.jpg/303px-George_Hare_-_Victory_of_Faith.jpg" decoding="async" width="303" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/George_Hare_-_Victory_of_Faith.jpg/455px-George_Hare_-_Victory_of_Faith.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/George_Hare_-_Victory_of_Faith.jpg/606px-George_Hare_-_Victory_of_Faith.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1968" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/The_Victory_of_Faith_(painting)" title="The Victory of Faith (painting)">The Victory of Faith</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/Saint_George_Hare" title="Saint George Hare">Saint George Hare</a>, depicts two Christians in the eve of their <a href="/wiki/Damnatio_ad_bestias" title="Damnatio ad bestias">damnatio ad bestias</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 295, <a href="/wiki/Maximilian_of_Tebessa" title="Maximilian of Tebessa">Maximilian of Tebessa</a> refused military service; in 298 <a href="/wiki/Marcellus_of_Tangier" title="Marcellus of Tangier">Marcellus</a> renounced his military oath. Both were executed for treason; both were Christians.<sup id="cite_ref-Rees,_60_194-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rees,_60-194"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At some time around 302, a report of ominous <a href="/wiki/Haruspicy" class="mw-redirect" title="Haruspicy">haruspicy</a> in <a href="/wiki/Diocletian" title="Diocletian">Diocletian</a>'s <i>domus</i> and a subsequent (but undated) dictat of placatory sacrifice by the entire military triggered <a href="/wiki/Diocletianic_Persecution" title="Diocletianic Persecution">a series of edicts</a> against Christianity.<sup id="cite_ref-199" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-199"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first (303 AD) "ordered the destruction of church buildings and Christian texts, forbade services to be held, degraded officials who were Christians, re-enslaved imperial freedmen who were Christians, and reduced the legal rights of all Christians... [Physical] or capital punishments were not imposed on them" but soon after, several Christians suspected of attempted arson in the palace were executed.<sup id="cite_ref-200" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-200"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second edict threatened Christian priests with imprisonment and the third offered them freedom if they performed sacrifice.<sup id="cite_ref-201" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-201"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An edict of 304 enjoined universal sacrifice to traditional gods, in terms that recall the Decian edict. </p><p>In some cases and in some places the edicts were strictly enforced: some Christians resisted and were imprisoned or martyred. Others complied. Some local communities were not only pre-dominantly Christian, but powerful and influential; and some provincial authorities were lenient, notably the Caesar in Gaul, <a href="/wiki/Constantius_Chlorus" title="Constantius Chlorus">Constantius Chlorus</a>, the father of <a href="/wiki/Constantine_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Constantine I">Constantine I</a>. Diocletian's successor Galerius maintained anti-Christian policy until his deathbed revocation in 311, when he asked Christians to pray for him. "This meant an official recognition of their importance in the religious world of the Roman empire, although one of the tetrarchs, Maximinus Daia, still oppressed Christians in his part of the empire up to 313."<sup id="cite_ref-202" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-202"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Emperor_Constantine_and_Christianity">Emperor Constantine and Christianity</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Emperor Constantine and Christianity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Trier_-_Aula_Palatina.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Trier_-_Aula_Palatina.JPG/220px-Trier_-_Aula_Palatina.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Trier_-_Aula_Palatina.JPG/330px-Trier_-_Aula_Palatina.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Trier_-_Aula_Palatina.JPG/440px-Trier_-_Aula_Palatina.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2721" data-file-height="1911" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Aula_Palatina" title="Aula Palatina">Aula Palatina</a> of <a href="/wiki/Trier" title="Trier">Trier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a> (then part of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">Roman province</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gallia_Belgica" title="Gallia Belgica">Gallia Belgica</a>), built during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Constantine_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Constantine I">Constantine I</a> (r. 306-337 AD)</figcaption></figure> <p>The conversion of <a href="/wiki/Constantine_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Constantine I">Constantine I</a> ended the Christian persecutions. Constantine successfully balanced his own role as an instrument of the <i><a href="/wiki/Pax_deorum" class="mw-redirect" title="Pax deorum">pax deorum</a></i> with the power of the Christian priesthoods in determining what was (in traditional Roman terms) auspicious – or in Christian terms, what was orthodox. The edict of Milan (313) redefined Imperial ideology as one of mutual toleration. Constantine had triumphed under the <i>signum</i> (sign) of the Christ: Christianity was therefore officially embraced along with traditional religions and from his new <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Eastern capital</a>, Constantine could be seen to embody both Christian and Hellenic religious interests. He passed laws to protect Christians from persecution;<sup id="cite_ref-203" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-203"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he also funded the building of churches, including <a href="/wiki/Old_St._Peter%27s_Basilica" title="Old St. Peter's Basilica">Saint Peter's basilica</a>. He may have officially ended – or attempted to end – blood sacrifices to the <i>genius</i> of living emperors, though his Imperial iconography and court ceremonial outstripped Diocletian's in their elevation of the emperor as somehow more than human.<sup id="cite_ref-204" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-204"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Constantine promoted orthodoxy in Christian doctrine, so that Christianity might become a unitary force, rather than divisive. He summoned Christian bishops to a meeting, later known as the <a href="/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea" title="First Council of Nicaea">First Council of Nicaea</a>, at which some 318 bishops (mostly easterners) debated and decided what was orthodox, and what was <a href="/wiki/Heresy_in_Christianity" title="Heresy in Christianity">heresy</a>. The meeting reached consensus on the <a href="/wiki/Nicene_Creed" title="Nicene Creed">Nicene Creed</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-205" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-205"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-206" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-206"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Constantine's death, he was honored as a Christian and as an Imperial "<a href="/wiki/Divus" class="mw-redirect" title="Divus">divus</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-207" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-207"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, <a href="/wiki/Philostorgius" title="Philostorgius">Philostorgius</a> would criticize those Christians who offered sacrifice at statues of the <i>divus</i> Constantine.<sup id="cite_ref-208" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-208"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Transition_to_Christian_hegemony">Transition to Christian hegemony</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Transition to Christian hegemony"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Christianization_of_the_late_Roman_empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianization of the late Roman empire">Christianization of the late Roman empire</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_pagans_in_the_late_Roman_Empire" title="Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire">Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Theodosius_I" title="Theodosius I">Theodosius I</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chrisme_Colosseum_Rome_Italy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Chrisme_Colosseum_Rome_Italy.jpg/220px-Chrisme_Colosseum_Rome_Italy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="207" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Chrisme_Colosseum_Rome_Italy.jpg/330px-Chrisme_Colosseum_Rome_Italy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Chrisme_Colosseum_Rome_Italy.jpg/440px-Chrisme_Colosseum_Rome_Italy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4009" data-file-height="3764" /></a><figcaption>Monogramme of Christ (the <a href="/wiki/Chi_Rho" title="Chi Rho">Chi Rho</a>) on a plaque of a marble <a href="/wiki/Sarcophagus" title="Sarcophagus">sarcophagus</a>, 4th century CE (Musei Vaticani, here in a temporary exhibition at the Colosseum in Rome, Italy)</figcaption></figure> <p>Christianity and traditional Roman religion proved incompatible. From the 2nd century onward, the <a href="/wiki/Church_Fathers" title="Church Fathers">Church Fathers</a> had condemned the diverse non-Christian religions practiced throughout the Empire as "pagan".<sup id="cite_ref-209" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-209"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Constantine's actions have been regarded by some scholars as causing the rapid growth of Christianity,<sup id="cite_ref-210" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-210"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though many modern scholars disagree.<sup id="cite_ref-211" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-211"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-212" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-212"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Constantine's unique form of Imperial orthodoxy did not outlast him. After his death in 337, two of his sons, <a href="/wiki/Constantius_II" title="Constantius II">Constantius II</a> and <a href="/wiki/Constans" title="Constans">Constans</a>, took over the leadership of the empire and re-divided their Imperial inheritance. Constantius was an <a href="/wiki/Arianism" title="Arianism">Arian</a> and his brothers were Nicene Christians. </p><p>Constantine's nephew <a href="/wiki/Julian_the_Apostate" class="mw-redirect" title="Julian the Apostate">Julian</a> rejected the "Galilean madness" of his upbringing for an idiosyncratic synthesis of <a href="/wiki/Neo-Platonism" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Platonism">neo-Platonism</a>, Stoic asceticism and universal solar cult. Julian became Augustus in 361 and actively fostered a religious and cultural pluralism, attempting a restitution of non-Christian practices and rights.<sup id="cite_ref-213" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-213"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He proposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem's temple as an Imperial project and argued against the "irrational impieties" of Christian doctrine.<sup id="cite_ref-214" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-214"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His attempt to restore an Augustan form of principate, with himself as <i><a href="/wiki/Primus_inter_pares" title="Primus inter pares">primus inter pares</a></i> ended with his death in 363 in Persia, after which his reforms were reversed or abandoned. The empire once again fell under Christian control, this time permanently. </p><p>In 380, under <a href="/wiki/Theodosius_I" title="Theodosius I">Theodosius I</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nicene_Christianity" title="Nicene Christianity">Nicene Christianity</a> became the official <a href="/wiki/State_church_of_the_Roman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="State church of the Roman Empire">state religion of the Roman Empire</a>. <a href="/wiki/Christian_heresy" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian heresy">Christian heretics</a> as well as non-Christians were subject to exclusion from public life or persecution, though Rome's original religious hierarchy and many aspects of its ritual influenced Christian forms,<sup id="cite_ref-Stefan_Heid_2007_pp._406_215-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stefan_Heid_2007_pp._406-215"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and many pre-Christian beliefs and practices survived in Christian festivals and local traditions. </p><p>The Western emperor <a href="/wiki/Gratian" title="Gratian">Gratian</a> refused the office of <i>pontifex maximus</i>, and against the protests of the Senate, removed the <a href="/wiki/Altar_of_Victory" title="Altar of Victory">altar of Victory</a> from the Senate house and began the disestablishment of the Vestals. <a href="/wiki/Theodosius_I" title="Theodosius I">Theodosius I</a> briefly re-united the Empire: in 391 he officially adopted Nicene Christianity as the Imperial religion and ended official support for all other creeds and cults. He not only refused to restore Victory to the senate-house, but extinguished the Sacred fire of the Vestals and vacated their temple: the senatorial protest was expressed in a letter by <a href="/wiki/Quintus_Aurelius_Symmachus" title="Quintus Aurelius Symmachus">Quintus Aurelius Symmachus</a> to the Western and Eastern emperors. <a href="/wiki/Ambrose" title="Ambrose">Ambrose</a>, the influential <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Milan" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Milan">Bishop of Milan</a> and future saint, wrote urging the rejection of Symmachus's request for tolerance.<sup id="cite_ref-216" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-216"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yet Theodosius accepted comparison with Hercules and Jupiter as a living divinity in the panegyric of <a href="/wiki/Pacatus_Drepanius" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacatus Drepanius">Pacatus</a>, and despite his active dismantling of Rome's traditional cults and priesthoods could commend his heirs to its overwhelmingly Hellenic Senate in traditional Hellenic terms.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (April 2011)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He was the last emperor of both East and West.<sup id="cite_ref-217" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-217"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-218" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-218"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pagan_continuity">Pagan continuity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Pagan continuity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Christianity was introduced late in Mani, with the first Greek temples converted into churches during the 11th century. Byzantine monk <a href="/wiki/Saint_Nikon_the_Metanoeite" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint Nikon the Metanoeite">Nikon "the Metanoite"</a> (Νίκων ὁ Μετανοείτε) was sent in the 10th century to convert the predominantly <a href="/wiki/Pagan" class="mw-redirect" title="Pagan">pagan</a> Maniots. Although his preaching began the conversion process, it took over 200 years for the majority to accept Christianity fully by the 11th and 12th centuries. <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Leigh_Fermor" title="Patrick Leigh Fermor">Patrick Leigh Fermor</a> noted that the Maniots, isolated by mountains, were among the last Greeks to abandon the old religion, doing so towards the end of the 9th century: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Sealed off from outside influences by their mountains, the semi-<a href="/wiki/Rock-cut_architecture" title="Rock-cut architecture">troglodytic</a> Maniots themselves were the last of the Greeks to be converted. They only abandoned the old religion of Greece towards the end of the ninth century. It is surprising to remember that this peninsula of rock, so near the heart of the Levant from which Christianity springs, should have been baptised three whole centuries after the arrival of <a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Canterbury" title="Augustine of Canterbury">St. Augustine</a> in far-away <a href="/wiki/Kent,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Kent, England">Kent</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-219" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-219"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>219<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/Constantine_VII" title="Constantine VII">Constantine VII</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/De_Administrando_Imperio" title="De Administrando Imperio">De Administrando Imperio</a></i>, the Maniots were referred to as 'Hellenes' and only fully <a href="/wiki/Christianization" title="Christianization">Christianized</a> in the 9th century, despite some church ruins from the 4th century indicating early Christian presence. The region's mountainous terrain allowed the Maniots to evade the Eastern Roman Empire's Christianization efforts, thus preserving pagan traditions, which coincided with significant years in the life of <a href="/wiki/Gemistos_Plethon" title="Gemistos Plethon">Gemistos Plethon</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/SPQRomani.svg/32px-SPQRomani.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="19" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/SPQRomani.svg/48px-SPQRomani.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/SPQRomani.svg/64px-SPQRomani.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="931" data-file-height="548" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Ancient_Rome" title="Portal:Ancient Rome">Ancient Rome portal</a></span></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_religion" title="Hellenistic religion">Hellenistic religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_atheism#Classical_Greece_and_Rome" title="History of atheism">History of atheism#Classical Greece and Rome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italo-Roman_neopaganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Italo-Roman neopaganism">Italo-Roman neopaganism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Cit%C3%A9_antique" class="mw-redirect" title="La Cité antique"><i>The Ancient City</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sibylline_Oracles" title="Sibylline Oracles">Sibylline Oracles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swaddled_infant_votive" title="Swaddled infant votive">Swaddled infant votive</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Religion_in_ancient_Rome&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_R%C3%BCpke" title="Jörg Rüpke">Jörg Rüpke</a> (2007). "Roman Religion – Religions of Rome". In <i>A Companion to Roman Religion</i>. Blackwell,. p. 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Apuleius" title="Apuleius">Apuleius</a>, <i>Florides</i> 1.1; <a href="/wiki/John_Scheid" title="John Scheid">John Scheid</a>, "Sacrifices for Gods and Ancestors" in <i>A Companion to Roman Religion</i> (Blackwell, 2007), p. 279.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"This mentality," notes John T. Koch, "lay at the core of the genius of cultural assimilation which made the Roman Empire possible"; entry on "Interpretatio romana" in <i>Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia</i> (ABC-Clio, 2006), p. 974.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rüpke, "Roman Religion – Religions of Rome", p. 4; Benjamin H. Isaac, <i>The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity</i> (Princeton University Press, 2004, 2006), p. 449; W.H.C. Frend, <i>Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church: A Study of Conflict from the Maccabees to Donatus</i> (Doubleday, 1967), p. 106.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Janet Huskinson, <i>Experiencing Rome: Culture, Identity and Power in the Roman Empire</i> (<a href="/wiki/Routledge" title="Routledge">Routledge</a>, 2000), p. 261. See, for instance, the altar dedicated by a Roman citizen and depicting a sacrifice conducted in the Roman manner for the Germanic goddess <a href="/wiki/Vagdavercustis" title="Vagdavercustis">Vagdavercustis</a> in the 2nd century CE.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A classic essay on this topic is <a href="/wiki/Arnaldo_Momigliano" title="Arnaldo Momigliano">Arnaldo Momigliano</a>, "The Disadvantages of Monotheism for a Universal State", <i>Classical Philology</i> 81.4 (1986) 285–297.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Alexandre_Grandazzi" title="Alexandre Grandazzi">Alexandre Grandazzi</a>, <i>The Foundation of Rome: Myth and History</i> (Cornell University Press, 1997), pp. 45–46.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceA-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 1; 189–90 (Aeneas and Vesta): 123–45 (Aeneas and Venus as Julian ancestors). See also Vergil, <i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/T.P._Wiseman" class="mw-redirect" title="T.P. Wiseman">T.P. Wiseman</a>, <i>Remus: A Roman Myth</i> (Cambridge University Press, 1995), <i>passim</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Or else was murdered by his resentful Senate, who successfully concealed their crime. See Beard et al., Vol. 1, 1; Vol. 2, 4.8a for Livy, 1.9 & 5–7 (Sabines and temple to Jupiter) and Plutarch, <i>Romulus</i>, 11, 1–4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Illustration of Vergil, <i><a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a></i> 3.147; MS Vat. lat. 3225, folio 28 recto</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 1–2 & Vol. 2: 1.2, (Livy, 1.19.6): 8.4a (Plutarch, Numa, 10). For Augustus' closure of Janus's temple doors, see Augustus, <i><a href="/wiki/Res_Gestae" class="mw-redirect" title="Res Gestae">Res Gestae</a></i>, 13. Festus connects Numa to the triumphal <i><a href="/wiki/Spolia_opima" title="Spolia opima">spolia opima</a></i> and Jupiter Feretrius.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 3, and footnotes 4 & 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The <a href="/wiki/Augustan_literature_(ancient_Rome)" title="Augustan literature (ancient Rome)">Augustan</a> historian <a href="/wiki/Livy" title="Livy">Livy</a> places Rome's foundation more than 600 years before his own time. His near contemporary <a href="/wiki/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus" title="Dionysius of Halicarnassus">Dionysius of Halicarnassus</a> appear to share some common sources, including an earlier history by <a href="/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Pictor" title="Quintus Fabius Pictor">Quintus Fabius Pictor</a>, of which only a terse summary survives. See also <a href="/wiki/Diocles_of_Peparethus" title="Diocles of Peparethus">Diocles of Peparethus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus" title="Romulus and Remus">Romulus and Remus</a> and Plutarch, <i>The Parallel Lives, Life of Romulus</i>, 3. Loeb edn. available at Thayer's site: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/plutarch/lives/romulus*.html">[1]</a>. Fragments of an important earlier work (now lost) of <a href="/wiki/Quintus_Ennius" class="mw-redirect" title="Quintus Ennius">Quintus Ennius</a> are cited by various later Roman authors. On the chronological problems of the kings' list, see Cornell, pp. 21–26, and 199–122.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 8-10; Cornell, pp. 1–30; Feeney, in Rüpke (ed.), 129–42, on religious themes in Roman Historiography and epic; Smith, in Rüpke (ed.), 31–42 for broad discussion of sources, modern schools of thought and divergent interpretations.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cicero, <i>On the Responses of the Haruspices</i>, 19.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rüpke, in Rüpke (ed.) 4 and Beard et al., Vol. 1, 10–43; in particular, 30–35.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The reasons for this change remain unclear, though they are attributed to Etruscan influence. For a summary of Jupiter's complex development from the Regal to Republican eras, see Beard et al., Vol. 1, 59–60. Jupiter's image in the Republican and Imperial Capitol bore regalia associated with Rome's ancient kings and the highest consular and Imperial honours. Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus were collectively and individually associated with Rome's agricultural economy, social organisation and success in war.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 134–5, 64–67.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Orlin, in Rüpke (ed.), 58. For related conceptual and interpretive difficulties offered by Roman deities and their cults, see Rüpke, in Rüpke (ed.) 1–7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rüpke, in Rüpke (ed.), 4–5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">CIL 13.581, quotation from Van Andringa, in Rüpke (ed.), 91.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., 6–7; those titled in capital letters on Roman calendars were probably more important and ancient than those titled in small letters: it is not known how ancient they were, nor to whom they were important. Their attribution to Numa or Romulus is doubtful. The oldest surviving religious calendars date to the late Republic; the most detailed are Augustan and later. Beard et al., Vol. 1, 6: a selection of festivals is given in Vol. 2, 3.1–3. For a list of Fasti, with bibliography and sources, see Degrassi, <i>Inscriptiones Italiae, Vol. XIII – Fasti et elogia, fasc. II – Fasti anni Numani et Iuliani,</i> Rome, 1963. See also Scullard, 1981.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 134–135, 64–67: citing Cicero.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rüpke, in Rüpke (ed.), 4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 47–49, 296.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., <i>Religions of Rome</i>, p. 262.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 2, 6.4a; Vol. 1, 174–176 & 207–208.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carole E. Newlands, <i>Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti</i> (Cornell University Press, 1995), <i>passim</i>; "Transgressive Acts: Ovid's Treatment of the Ides of March", <i>Classical Philology</i> 91.4 (1996) 320–338.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See the <a href="/wiki/Calendar_of_Filocalus" class="mw-redirect" title="Calendar of Filocalus">Calendar of Filocalus</a> (AD 354), cited in Beard et al., Vol. 1, 250, and that of <a href="/wiki/Polemius_Silvius" title="Polemius Silvius">Polemius Silvius</a>. See also early and later Christian festivals in Beard et al., Vol. 1, 378–380, 382–383.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-31">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Clarke, 1, citing Frank E. Brown, <i>Roman Architecture</i>, (New York) 1961, 9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard, et al., Vol. 1, 321 – 3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome", v. 1, p. 167</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pliny, <i>Natural History</i> 28.10.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Halm, in Rüpke (ed.), 235–236 <i>et passim</i>. The Roman belief in the power of the word may be reflected also in the importance of persuasive speech, formally oratory, in political life and the law courts.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Halm,_in_Rüpke_ed,_241–2-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Halm,_in_Rüpke_ed,_241–2_36-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Halm,_in_Rüpke_ed,_241–2_36-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Halm, in Rüpke (ed.), 241–2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hahn, in Rüpke (ed.), 239–45.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Livy, 41.16.1.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hahn, in Rüpke (ed.), 235–6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Orr, 23.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 28, 27.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lott, 31: Dionysius of Halicarnassus claims the Compitalia contribution of honey-cakes as a Servian institution.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ovid, <i>Fasti</i>, 2.500–539. See also Thaniel, G., Lemures and Larvae, <i>The American Journal of Philology</i>, 94.2, (1973) 182–187: the offering of black beans is distinctively <a href="/wiki/Chthonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Chthonic">chthonic</a>. Beans were considered seeds of life. Lemures may have been the restless dead who had not passed into the underworld, and still craved the life they had lost. Beans were a ritual pollution for Jupiter's priesthood, possibly because his offerings must be emasculated and thus devoid of generative power.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Halm, in Rüpke (ed.), 239.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Scheid,_in_Rüpke_ed,_263–271-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Scheid,_in_Rüpke_ed,_263–271_45-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Scheid,_in_Rüpke_ed,_263–271_45-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Scheid,_in_Rüpke_ed,_263–271_45-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Scheid, in Rüpke (ed.), 263–271.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Though the household Lares do just that, and at least some Romans understood them to be ancestral spirits. Sacrifices to the spirits of deceased mortals are discussed below in <a href="#Funerals_and_the_afterlife">Funerals and the afterlife</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jörg Rüpke, <i>Religion of the Romans</i> (Polity Press, 2007, originally published in German 2001), p. 81 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fcsynr0fQIoC&dq=piaculum&pg=PA81">online.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/William_Warde_Fowler" title="William Warde Fowler">William Warde Fowler</a>, <i>The Religious Experience of the Roman People</i> (London, 1922), p. 191.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Robert_E.A._Palmer" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert E.A. Palmer">Robert E.A. Palmer</a>, "The Deconstruction of Mommsen on Festus 462/464 L, or the Hazards of Interpretation", in <i>Imperium sine fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic</i> (Franz Steiner, 1996), p. 99, note 129 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wEtE8c1jGY4C&dq=piaculum&pg=PA99">online</a>; Roger D. Woodard, <i>Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman Cult</i> (University of Illinois Press, 2006), p. 122 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=EB4fB0inNYEC&dq=piaculum&pg=PA122">online.</a> The <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustan</a> historian <a href="/wiki/Livy" title="Livy">Livy</a> (8.9.1–11) says <a href="/wiki/Publius_Decius_Mus_(consul_340_BC)" title="Publius Decius Mus (consul 340 BC)">P. Decius Mus</a> is "like" a <i>piaculum</i> when he makes his vow to sacrifice himself in battle (<i><a href="/wiki/Devotio" title="Devotio">devotio</a></i>).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hahn, in Rüpke (ed.), 238.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-51">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol 1, 32-36.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gradel, 21: but this need not imply sacrifice as a mutual contract, breached in this instance. Evidently the gods had the greater power and freedom of choice in the matter. See Beard et al., 34: "The gods would accept as sufficient exactly what they were offered – no more, no less." Human error in the previous annual vows and sacrifice remains a possibility.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gradel, 78, 93</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cicero, <i>De divinatione</i> 2.12.29. According to <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny</a> (<i>Natural History</i> 11.186), before 274 BC the heart was not included among the <i>exta</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Robert Schilling, "The Roman Religion", in <i>Historia Religionum: Religions of the Past</i> (Brill, 1969), vol. 1, pp. 471–472, and "Roman Sacrifice", <i>Roman and European Mythologies</i> (University of Chicago Press, 1992), p. 79; <a href="/wiki/John_Scheid" title="John Scheid">John Scheid</a>, <i>An Introduction to Roman Religion</i> (Indiana University Press, 2003, originally published in French 1998), p. 84.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Livy 22.55-57</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-57"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-57">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Livy, 22.57.4; Plutarch, <i>Roman Questions</i>, 83 & <i>Marcellus</i>, 3. For further context and interpretive difficulties, see Beard et al., Vol. 1, 81: the live burial superficially resembles the punishment of Vestals who broke their vows. A living entombment assuages the blood-guilt of the living: the guilty are consigned to earth deities. But the Vestals are entombed outside the city limits, not its centre; no sacrificial victims are burned in either case, and the Gauls and Greeks appear to be personally guiltless.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Welch, 18-19: citing Livy, summary 16.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-59"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-59">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For example, <a href="/wiki/Prudentius" title="Prudentius">Prudentius</a>, <i>Contra Symmachum</i> 1.379–398; see Donald G. Kyle, <i>Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome</i> (Routledge, 1998, 2001), p. 59.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The sacrifice was demanded by an oracle during the reign of the last king, the Etruscan <a href="/wiki/Tarquinius_Superbus" class="mw-redirect" title="Tarquinius Superbus">Tarquinius Superbus</a>. See Macrobius, Saturnalia, 1.7 & Lilly Ross Taylor, "The Mother of the Lares", <i>American Journal of Archaeology</i>, <b>29</b>.3, (July–September 1925), pp 299–313.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-61"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-61">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 233–4, 385.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gradel, 36-8: the <i>paterfamilias</i> held – in theory at least, and through ancient right – powers of life and death over every member of his extended <i>familia</i>, including children, slaves and freedmen. In practice, the extreme form of this right was seldom exercised, and was eventually limited by law.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-63"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-63">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See also Severy, 9-10 for interpretation of the social, economic and religious role of the <i>paterfamilias</i> within the immediate and extended family and the broader community.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al.et al., vol 1, 67-8.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Brent, 62-3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., 1997, 2-3, citing Vergil, <i>Aeneid</i>, 8,306-58.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gradel, 9-15: citing legal definitions from Festus (epitome of Verrius Flaccus) "De verborum significatu" p.284 L: in Wissowa, 1912, 398ff: and Geiger, 1914): see also Beard <i>et al</i>., Vol. 1, 251.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-68"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-68">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Belayche, (verbatim) in Rüpke (ed.), 279.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-69"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-69">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 217.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-70"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-70">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gradel, 3, 15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gradel, 9-15: citing legal definitions from Festus (epitome of Verrius Flaccus) "De verborum significatu" p.284 L: in Wissowa, 1912, 398ff: and Geiger, 1914): see also Beard et al., Vol. 1, 251.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-72"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-72">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith, in Rüpke (ed.), 39–40.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-73"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-73">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 18–34, 54–61: "[the underlying purpose being that] whoever bore the title <i>rex</i> should never again be in a position to threaten the city with tyranny." See also <a href="#Religion_and_politics">Religion and politics</a> in this article.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-74"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-74">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 104–8: there can be no doubt that politicians attempted to manipulate religious law and priesthoods for gain; but were compelled to do so lawfully, and often failed.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-75"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-75">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Horster, in Rüpke (ed.), 331–2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-76"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-76">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Gradel, 9-15.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-77"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-77">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gradel, 21.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-78"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-78">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gary Forsythe, <i>A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War</i> (University of California Press, 2005, 2006), p. 141.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-79"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-79">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 52–53.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-80"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-80">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 51–54, 70–71, 297. For comparison of Vestal constraints to those of Jupiter's flamen, see Smith, in Rüpke (ed.), 39–40</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-81"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-81">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Forsythe, <i>A Critical History of Early Rome</i>, p. 141.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-82"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-82">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 50–53.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-83"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-83">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ariadne Staples, <i>From Good Goddess to Vestal Virgins: Sex and Category in Roman Religion</i> (Routledge, 1998), pp. 154–155.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-84"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-84">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 193-4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-85"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-85">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith, in Rüpke (ed.), 36.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-86"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-86">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol 1, 12-20.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-87"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-87">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Brent, 17-20: citing Cicero, <i>De Natura Deorum</i>, 2.4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Brent,_21-25-88"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Brent,_21-25_88-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Brent,_21-25_88-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Brent, 21-25.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-89"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-89">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol 1, 12-20. See also <a href="/wiki/John_Scheid" title="John Scheid">Scheid</a>, in Rüpke (ed.), 266.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-90"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-90">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Horster, in Rüpke (ed.) 336–7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-91"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-91">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cicero finds all forms of divination false, except those used in State rituals; most Romans were less skeptical. See Rosenberger, in Rüpke (ed.), 300, and Orlin, in Rüpke (ed.), 67.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-92"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-92">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Caesar used his <i>ius augurium</i> to declare <i>obnuntiato</i> to Cicero's disadvantage: and vice versa.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-93">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Orlin, in Rüpke (ed.), 65–66.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-94"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-94">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Orlin, in Rüpke (ed.), 60.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-95"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-95">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rosenberger, in Rüpke (ed.), 297.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-96"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-96">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFCookAdcockCharlesworth1930" class="citation book cs1">Cook, S. A.; Adcock, F. E.; Charlesworth, M. P., eds. (1930). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70252"><i>The Cambridge Ancient History: Rome and the Mediterranean</i></a>. Vol. VIII. pp. 44–45.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+Ancient+History%3A+Rome+and+the+Mediterranean&rft.pages=44-45&rft.date=1930&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fin.ernet.dli.2015.70252&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReligion+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-97"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-97">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rosenberger, in Rüpke (ed.), 295–8: the task fell to the haruspex, who set the child to drown in the sea. The survival of such a child for four years after its birth would have between regarded as extreme dereliction of religious duty.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-98"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-98">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Livy, 27.37.5–15; the hymn was composed by the poet <a href="/wiki/Livius_Andronicus" title="Livius Andronicus">Livius Andronicus</a>. Cited by Halm, in Rüpke (ed.) 244. For remainder, see Rosenberger, in Rüpke (ed.), 297.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-99"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-99">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Livy, 22.1 ff: The expiatory <a href="#Sacrifice">burial of living human victims</a> in the Forum Boarium followed Rome's defeat at Cannae in the same wars. In Livy's account, Rome's victory follows its discharge of religious duties to the gods.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-100"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-100">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For Livy's use of prodigies and portents as markers of Roman impiety and military failure, see Feeney, in Rüpke (ed.), 138–9. For prodigies in the context of political decision-making, see Rosenberger, in Rüpke (ed.), 295–8.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-101"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-101">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rosenberger, in Rüpke (ed.), 293.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-102"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-102">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hertz, in Rüpke (ed.), 315.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Beard_et_al.,_Vol._1,3;_161-163-103"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Beard_et_al.,_Vol._1,3;_161-163_103-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Beard_et_al.,_Vol._1,3;_161-163_103-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1,3; 161-163</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-104"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-104">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1,3; 247</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-105"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_105-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_105-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_105-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoberts1993" class="citation book cs1">Roberts, J. M. (John Morris) (1993). <i>History of the world</i>. New York: Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-521043-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-521043-9"><bdi>978-0-19-521043-9</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/28378422">28378422</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=History+of+the+world&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=1993&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F28378422&rft.isbn=978-0-19-521043-9&rft.aulast=Roberts&rft.aufirst=J.+M.+%28John+Morris%29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReligion+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-106"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-106">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1,2; 96-97</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-107"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-107">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gordon, in Rüpke (ed.), 390</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-108"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-108">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Orlin, in Rüpke (ed.), 63.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-109"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-109">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith, in Rüpke (ed.), 35–6: Rome's Latin neighbours significantly influenced the development of its domestic and funerary architecture.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-110"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-110">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith, in Rüpke (ed.), 35–6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-111"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-111">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scheid, in Rüpke (ed.), 267, 270–71.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-112"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-112">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">From a Romano-Athenian veteran's tomb; <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Cagnat" title="René Cagnat">Cagnat, René</a>, <i>Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes</i>. Paris 1906–27, 3.917.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-113"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-113">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haensch, in Rüpke, (ed.) 186–7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-114"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-114">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This recommended Christian commemorative rites on the 3rd, 9th & 30th days after death.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-115"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-115">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Saltzman, in Rüpke, (ed.), 114–116.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-116"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-116">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Orlin, in Rüpke (ed.), 58.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-117"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-117">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 44, 59–60, 143.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-118"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-118">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cornell, T., in Walbank et al., 299, citing Livy 21.8-9 and 22.3-6. Livy describes this as <i><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/evocatio" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:evocatio">evocatio</a></i> (a "calling forth") initiated by Roman soldiers who snatched the goddess's sacrificial portion during her Veiian rites; the Veiian priest had announced that whoever possessed the sacred entrails would win the coming battle. Preview via googlebooks <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=3qXuay2SEtIC&dq=evocatio+Livy&pg=PA299">[2]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-119"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-119">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Moede, in Rüpke (ed.), 171, & Beard et al., Vol. 1, 326–7.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-120"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-120">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 324–6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-121"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-121">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Brent, 268-9.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-122"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-122">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=r2hBqYtZWNEC&dq=Hadrian+dominus+noster&pg=RA1-PA249">Books.Google.co.uk</a>, Le Bohec, 249: limited preview available via Google Books</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-123"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-123">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=VqM9AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22mother+of+the+camp%22+severus&pg=PA82">Books.Google.co.uk</a>, Dixon, 78: limited preview available from Google Books</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-124"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-124">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Livy, 5.21.3., & 8.9.8; Beard et al., Vol 1, 35–36; Hertz, in Rüpke (ed.), 312; Halm, in Rüpke (ed.), 239.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-125"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-125">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rosenberger, in Rüpke (ed.), 3OO, citing Suetonius, Tiberius, 2.2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-126"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-126">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 297.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-127"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-127">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 296–7. This exclusion prompted prurient speculation on the part of men, and a scandalous, impious intrusion by <a href="/wiki/Publius_Clodius_Pulcher" title="Publius Clodius Pulcher">Publius Clodius Pulcher</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-128"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-128">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 297. <i>Ibid</i> 217, citing the obituary of a woman whose virtues included "<i>religio</i> without <i>superstitio</i>" (<a href="/wiki/Inscriptiones_Latinae_Selectae" title="Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae">ILS</a> 8393.30-31 of "Turia").</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Rüpke,_in_Rüpke_ed,_5-129"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Rüpke,_in_Rüpke_ed,_5_129-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Rüpke,_in_Rüpke_ed,_5_129-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Rüpke, in Rüpke (ed.), 5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-130"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-130">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Beard et al., Vol. 1, 217.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-131"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-131">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Ando" title="Clifford Ando">Clifford Ando</a>, <i>The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire</i> (University of California Press, 2008), p. 13.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-132"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-132">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., 230–31.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-133"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-133">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Phillips, in Rüpke (ed.), 14.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-134"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-134">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ogden, in Flint et al., 83: citing Pliny, <i>Natural History</i>, 28.17–18; Seneca, <i>Natural Questions,</i> 4.7.2.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-135"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-135">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 231–233, citing Tacitus, <i>Histories</i>, 1.22. Tacitus' prediction was accurate: in the late 3rd century, Diocletian issued a general ban on astrology.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-136"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-136">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Apuleius, <i>Apologia</i>, 26.6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-137"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-137">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 30.1–18; see also Beard et al., Vol. 1, 219.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-138"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-138">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 217–219 & 224, citing Philostratus, <i>Life of Apollonius</i>, I.2, IV.18, V.12, VII.11,20,33-4,39, VIII.5,7,19,30.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-139"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-139">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 219–20, citing Lucan, Pharsalia, VI.413–830.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-140"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-140">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scheid, in Rüpke (ed.), 263.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-141"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-141">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haensch, in Rüpke (ed.), 186: about 200 of these British defixiones are from Sulla-Minerva's spring in urban Bath and the remainder from a shrine to a Celtic deity (<a href="/wiki/Nodens" title="Nodens">Nodens</a>), at rural Uley. For <i>defixiones</i> as direct appeals to divine justice, see Belayche, in Rüpke (ed.), 286. For the widespread persistence of curse-tablet rituals, see Ogden, in Flint et al., 3–5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-142"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-142">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">During the Augustan era, the city of Rome probably housed around a million people, including an unknown number of provincials: by Mouritsen's estimate, around 200,000 Roman citizens were eligible to vote in Rome itself during the late Republican era but during major elections, the influx of rural voters and the bottleneck of the city's ancient electoral apparatus meant that perhaps 12% of eligible citizens actually voted. This nevertheless represents a substantial increase from the estimated 1% adult male enfranchisement rights of 145 BC. At any time, the overwhelming majority of citizens – meaning the plebs – had minimal direct involvement in central government. See Henrik Mouritsen, Plebs and Politics in the Late Roman Republic (Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge University Press, 2001), 32ff.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-143"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-143">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Orlin, in Rüpke (ed.), 61.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-144"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-144">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Orlin, in Rüpke (ed.), –– 60.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-145"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-145">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Belayche, in Rüpke (ed.), 283: citing Plutarch, Camillus, 42. Belayche describes this as a votive offering (<i>uotum</i>), which "offered a supernatural legitimacy for decisions or actions... [and] entailed being assisted and reassured, through the forwarding of hopes or dis- appointments, anger or contentment, to superior powers." See also Versnel, Henrik S., (ed.), "Religious mentality in ancient prayer," in Versnel, Henrik S., Faith, Hope and Worship: Aspects of Religious Mentality in the Ancient World, Leyden, 1981, pp 1–64.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-146"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-146">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The <i>collegia</i> were opened to plebs by the <i><a href="/wiki/Lex_Ogulnia" title="Lex Ogulnia">Lex Ogulnia</a></i> of 300 BC.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-147"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-147">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"The change that comes about at the end of the republic and solidifies under Augustus is not political, but cultural". Galinsky, in Rüpke (ed.), 72: citing Habinek, T., and Schiesaro, A., (eds.) <i>The Roman Cultural Revolution</i>. Princeton, New Jersey, 1997 & Wallace-Hadrill, A., "Mutatas formas: the Augustan transformation of Roman knowledge", in: Galinsky, K., (ed.) <i>The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus</i>, Cambridge, 2005, pp 55–84: <i>contra</i> Syme, R., The Roman Revolution, 1939.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-148"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-148">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Smith, in Rüpke (ed.), 42.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-149"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-149">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Galinsky, in Rüpke (ed.), 72: "...the change that comes about at the end of the republic and solidifies under Augustus is not political, but cultural. Most of the members of the priestly colleges in Augustus’ time continued to be aristocrats, but the real power and control over religion and the calendar now flowed from professional experts, such as the polymath Varro, because they had the power of knowledge.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-150"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-150">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Two centuries later, when Decius and Diocletian required universal sacrifice to Roman gods as a test of loyalty, any traditional gods served the purpose: loyal compliance with Imperial dictat made them Roman.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-151"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-151">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scipio did not claim personal connections with Jupiter; but he did not deny rumours to that effect. Contrary to usual practice, his <i><a href="/wiki/Roman_funerals_and_burial#Imagines_("images")" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman funerals and burial">imago</a></i> (funeral mask) was stored in the Temple of Jupiter.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-152"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-152">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Orlin, in Rüpke (ed.), 66.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-153"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-153">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Otherwise, electoral bribery (<a href="/wiki/Ambitus" title="Ambitus">ambitus</a>): see Cicero, <i>Letters to friends</i>, 2.3: see also Beard et al., Vol. 1, 65–67.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-154"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-154">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hertz, in Rüpke (ed.), 310.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-155"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-155">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"From Etruria the Romans derived the idea of housing a deity in a temple and of providing him with a cult statue. ... The most famous... dedicated in the first year of the Republic to the Etruscan triad, Tinia, Uni and Minerva. Of these deities, however, two were Italian, Juno and Minerva, while Tinia was identified with Jupiter." Howard Hayes Scullard, (2003), A History of the Roman World, 753 to 146 BC, page 397. Routledge</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-156"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-156">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Her cult at Aricia was first attested in Latin literature by <a href="/wiki/Cato_the_Elder" title="Cato the Elder">Cato the Elder</a>, in a surviving quote by the late grammarian <a href="/wiki/Priscian" title="Priscian">Priscian</a>. Supposed Greek origins for the Aricia cult are strictly a <a href="/wiki/Literary_topos" title="Literary topos">literary topos</a>." Arthur E. Gordon, "On the Origin of Diana", Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 63 (1932, pp. 177-192) page 178 note, and page 181.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-157"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-157">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Varro, <i>Ling. Lat.</i> v. 43</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-158"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-158">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Pomoerium.html"><i>Pomoerium</i></a>, <i>A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities</i>, page 930-1. London, 1875.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-159"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-159">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/Ara_Maxima_Herculis.html"><i>Ara Maxima Herculis</i></a>, <i>A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome</i>, page 253-4. Oxford University Press, 1929.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-160"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-160">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Traditionally in 499, the cult of Castor and Pollux was introduced from Tusculum and temple was erected in the Forum." Howard Hayes Scullard, (2003), A History of the Roman World, 753 to 146 BC, page 398. Routledge</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-161"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-161">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Livy, 23.31.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-162"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-162">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Ver_Sacrum.html"><i>Ver Sacrum</i></a>, <i>A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities</i>, page 1189, London, 1875.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-163"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-163">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/romrelig2.html#Livy2"><i>Dionysius and the Bacchanalia, 186 B.C.</i></a> from Livy: <i>History of Rome</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-164"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-164">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Orlin, in Rüpke, (ed.), 65</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-165"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-165">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFUndheim2015" class="citation journal cs1">Undheim, Sissel (2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/24644883">"Review of Religion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change. (Empire and After), Jörg Rüpke"</a>. <i>Numen</i>. <b>62</b> (4): 481–483. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1163%2F15685276-12341385">10.1163/15685276-12341385</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0029-5973">0029-5973</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/24644883">24644883</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Numen&rft.atitle=Review+of+Religion+in+Republican+Rome%3A+Rationalization+and+Ritual+Change.+%28Empire+and+After%29%2C+J%C3%B6rg+R%C3%BCpke&rft.volume=62&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=481-483&rft.date=2015&rft.issn=0029-5973&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F24644883%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1163%2F15685276-12341385&rft.aulast=Undheim&rft.aufirst=Sissel&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F24644883&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReligion+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-166"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-166">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Galinsky, in Rüpke (ed.), 76. See also <a href="/wiki/Res_Gestae" class="mw-redirect" title="Res Gestae">Res Gestae</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-167"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-167">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcLaughlin,_Raoul2010" class="citation book cs1">McLaughlin, Raoul (2010). <i>Rome and the distant East : trade routes to the ancient lands of Arabia, India and China</i>. London: Continuum. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4411-6223-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4411-6223-6"><bdi>978-1-4411-6223-6</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/667274301">667274301</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rome+and+the+distant+East+%3A+trade+routes+to+the+ancient+lands+of+Arabia%2C+India+and+China&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Continuum&rft.date=2010&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F667274301&rft.isbn=978-1-4411-6223-6&rft.au=McLaughlin%2C+Raoul&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReligion+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-168"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-168">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Pliny the Younger, Epistles, 10.50.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-169"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-169">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">As at Narbonne and Salona. See Andringa, in Rüpke (ed.), 89.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-170"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-170">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Van Andringa, in Rüpke (ed.), 89.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-171"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-171">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al. 1998</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-172"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-172">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Van Andringa, in Rüpke (ed.), 88.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-173"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-173">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haensch, in Rüpke (ed.), 180–3.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-174"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-174">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kaufmann-Heinimann, in Rüpke (ed.), 200.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-175"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-175">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Haensch, in Rüpke (ed.), 184.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-176"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-176">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gradel, 32-52.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-177"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-177">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard, 272-5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-178"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-178">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fishwick, Vol 3, part 1, 3: citing Cassius Dio, 51, 20, 6-7</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-179"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-179">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fishwick, Vol 1, book 1, 77 & 126-30.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-180"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-180">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fishwick, Vol 1, book 1, 97-149.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-181"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-181">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hertz, in Rüpke (ed.), 309.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-182"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-182">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gradel, 263–8, 199.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-183"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-183">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rees, 46–56, 73–4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-184"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-184">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 266–7, 270.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-185"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-185">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Smallwood, 2-3, 4-6: the presence of practicing Jews in Rome is attested "at least a century" before 63 BC. Smallwood describes the preamble to Judaea's clientage as the Hellenising of ruling Jewish dynasties, their claims to kingly messianism and their popular, traditionalist rejection in the Maccabaean revolt. In Rome, the more "characteristically Jewish" beliefs and customs were subjects of scorn and mockery.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jSYbpitEjggC&dq=Jews+smallwood+actium+Parthia&pg=PA2">Books.Google.co.uk</a> <i>Ibid</i>, 120-143 for early Roman responses to Judaistic practice; but see also Tessa Rajack, "Was there a Roman Charter for the Jews?" <i>Journal of Roman Studies,</i> 74, (1984) 107-23; no "Roman charter" for Judaism should be inferred from local, <i>ad hoc</i> attempts to suppress anti-Jewish acts (as in Josephus' account); Judaism as <i>religio licita</i> is only found later, in Tertullian. Cicero, <i>pro Flacco, 66</i>, refers to Judaism as <i>superstitio</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-186"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-186">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Smallwood, 2-3, 4-6: <i>superstitio</i> in Cicero, <i>pro Flacco</i>, 66, but legislation by Julius Caesar recognised the synagogues in Rome as legitimate <i>collegia</i> and Augustus maintained their status. Josephus infers an early "charter" offering protection to Jews, but Tessa Rajack, "Was there a Roman Charter for the Jews?" Journal of Roman Studies, 74, (1984) 107-23, finds evidence only for Rome's official suppression of anti-Jewish activities. <i>Religio licita</i> is first found much later than this, in Tertullian.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-187"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-187">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., vol. 1, 225: citing Pliny the Younger, <i>Letters</i>, 10.96.8, & Beard et al., Vol. 2, 11.11a: citing Tacitus, <i>Annals</i>, 15.44.5.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-188"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-188">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Leppin, in Rüpke (ed.), 98.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-189"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-189">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Potter, 241-3: see 242 for Decian "libellus" (certificate) of oath and sacrifice on papyrus, dated to 250 AD.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-190"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-190">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., Vol. 1, 241.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-191"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-191">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Roman oaths of loyalty were traditionally collective; the Decian oath has been interpreted as a design to root out individual subversives and suppress their cults: see Leppin, in Rüpke, (ed.), 100.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-192"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-192">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8EgCRHxfouQC&dq=Diocletian+Imperial+cult&pg=PA55">Books.Google.co.uk</a>, Rees, 60. Limited preview available at Google Books</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-193"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-193">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=MNSyT_PuYVMC&dq=Jews+Decius+exemption&pg=PA627">Bowman et al., 622-33. Books.Google.co.uk</a>, Limited preview available at Google Books</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Rees,_60-194"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Rees,_60_194-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Rees,_60_194-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Rees, 60.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-195"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-195">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Beard et al., 241.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-196"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-196">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Leppin, in Rüpke (ed.), 98–99; citing Eusebius, <i>Historia ecclesiastica</i> 6.19.15; 21.3–4; 36.3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-197"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-197">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Leppin, in Rüpke (ed.), 99; citing Eusebius, <i>Historia ecclesiastica</i>, 7.29–30: Paul actually remained in office until "Aurelian's victory over Palmyra in 272, when he was forced to leave the 'building of the church'... Political conflicts, local rivalry, and theological debates converged in this quarrel."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-198"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-198">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Cascio, in Bowman et al. (eds), 171.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-199"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-199">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lactantius, II.6.10.1-4. A date of 302 is regarded as likely. <a href="/wiki/Eusebius" title="Eusebius">Eusebius</a> also says the persecutions of Christians began in the army; see Eusebius, II.8.1.8.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-200"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-200">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Leppin, in Rüpke (ed.), 103: citing Lactantius, <i>De mortibus persecutorum</i>, 14.2; Eusebius, <i>Historia ecclesiastica</i>, 8.6.6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-201"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-201">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Eusebius, <i>Historia ecclesiastica</i> 8.2.5, 8.6.10.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-202"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-202">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Leppin, in Rüpke (ed.), 103: citing Lactantius, <i>De mortibus persecutorum</i>, 34 & 13 &; Eusebius, <i>Historia ecclesiastica</i> 8.17.3–10 & 8.2.3–4.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-203"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-203">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKelly2006" class="citation book cs1">Kelly, Christopher (2006). <i>The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction</i>. New York: Oxford UP.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Roman+Empire%3A+A+Very+Short+Introduction&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Oxford+UP&rft.date=2006&rft.aulast=Kelly&rft.aufirst=Christopher&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReligion+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-204"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-204">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Constantine's permission for a new cult temple to himself and his family in Umbria is extant: the terms are vague – cult "should not be polluted by the deception of any contagious superstition". See Momigliano, 104.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-205"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-205">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMorgan2003" class="citation book cs1">Morgan, Julian (2003). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/constantineruler00morg"><i>Constantine Ruler of Christian Rome</i></a></span>. New York: Rosen Central. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8239-3592-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8239-3592-5"><bdi>978-0-8239-3592-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Constantine+Ruler+of+Christian+Rome&rft.place=New+York%3A+Rosen+Central&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-8239-3592-5&rft.aulast=Morgan&rft.aufirst=Julian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fconstantineruler00morg&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReligion+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_location_missing_publisher" title="Category:CS1 maint: location missing publisher">link</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-206"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-206">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/39053452">"Roman Emperor Constantine I"</a>. <i>Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 February</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Roman+Emperor+Constantine+I&rft.btitle=Columbia+Electronic+Encyclopedia&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fconnection.ebscohost.com%2Fc%2Farticles%2F39053452&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReligion+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-207"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-207">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBunson2002" class="citation book cs1">Bunson, Matthew (2002). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816045624"><i>Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire</i></a></span> (revised ed.). Facts on File. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8160-4562-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8160-4562-4"><bdi>978-0-8160-4562-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Encyclopedia+of+the+Roman+Empire&rft.edition=revised&rft.pub=Facts+on+File&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-0-8160-4562-4&rft.aulast=Bunson&rft.aufirst=Matthew&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fisbn_9780816045624&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReligion+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-208"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-208">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Momigliano, 104.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-209"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-209">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Peter Brown, in Bowersock et al., <i>Late antiquity: a guide to the postclassical world</i>, Harvard University Press, (1999), for "pagan" as a mark of socio-religious inferiority in Latin Christian polemic: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=c788wWR_bLwC&dq=pagus+paganus&pg=PA625">[3]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-210"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-210">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ramsay MacMullen, Christianizing the Roman empire. A.D.100-400. Yale University Press. p. 51</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-211"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-211">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Paul Stephenson, Constantine: Unconquered emperor, Christian victor (2009) p. 5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-212"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-212">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rodney Stark, <i>The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion</i> (Harper Collins 2011) pp. 169-182</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-213"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-213">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A summary of relevant legislation is available online at the Wisconsin Lutheran College website – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fourthcentury.com/index.php/imperial-laws-chart">FourthCentury.com</a> (accessed 30 August 2009)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-214"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-214">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See Julian's <i>Against the Galilaeans</i> (trans. Wright, from Cyril of Alexandria's later refutation, <i>Contra Julianum</i>) at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/julian_apostate_galileans_1_text.htm">Tertullian.org</a> (accessed 30 August 2009). Julian admired the work of the Platonist (or neo-Platonist) <a href="/wiki/Iamblichus" title="Iamblichus">Iamblichus</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Stefan_Heid_2007_pp._406-215"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Stefan_Heid_2007_pp._406_215-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stefan Heid, "The Romanness of Roman Christianity", in <i>A Companion to Roman Religion</i> (Blackwell, 2007), pp. 406–426; on vocabulary in particular, Robert Schilling, "The Decline and Survival of Roman Religion", <i>Roman and European Mythologies</i> (University of Chicago Press, 1992, from the French edition of 1981), p. 110.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-216"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-216">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The correspondence is available online at Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Letter of St. Ambrose, trans. H. De Romestin, 1896., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ambrose-sym.html">Fordham.edu</a> (accessed 29 August 2009)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-217"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-217">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=JNIOAAAAQAAJ&dq=pacatus+theodosius&pg=PA66">Books.Google.co.uk</a>, Williams & Friell, 65-67. Limited preview at googlebooks</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-218"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-218">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Nixon & Rodgers, 437-48: Full text of <a href="/wiki/Pacatus_Drepanius" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacatus Drepanius">Latinus Pacata Drepanius</a>, <i>Panegyric of Theodosius</i> (389) with commentary and context.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-219"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-219">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeigh_Fermor1958" class="citation book cs1">Leigh Fermor, Patrick (1958). <i>Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese</i>. 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J., et al., <i>Athlone History of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Ancient Greece and Rome, Vol. 2,</i> Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1998. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-485-89002-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-485-89002-0">978-0-485-89002-0</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Lane_Fox" title="Robin Lane Fox">Fox, R. L.</a>, <i>Pagans and Christians</i></li> <li>Lott, John. 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A. <i>Roman Religion</i>. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNorth2023" class="citation book cs1">North, John (2023). <i>The Religious History of the Roman Empire: the Republican Centuries</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780199644063" title="Special:BookSources/9780199644063"><bdi>9780199644063</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Religious+History+of+the+Roman+Empire%3A+the+Republican+Centuries&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2023&rft.isbn=9780199644063&rft.aulast=North&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AReligion+in+ancient+Rome" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Orr, D. G., Roman domestic religion: the evidence of the household shrines, <i>Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt</i>, II, 16, 2, Berlin, 1978, 1557‑91.</li> <li>Rees, Roger. Diocletian and the Tetrarchy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004.</li> <li>Revell, L., "Religion and Ritual in the Western Provinces", <i>Greece and Rome</i>, volume 54, number 2, October 2007.</li> <li>Rüpke, Jörg, ed. A Companion to Roman Religion. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.</li> <li>Scheid, John. <i>An Introduction to Roman Religion</i>. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2003.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spaeth,_Barbette_Stanley" class="mw-redirect" title="Spaeth, Barbette Stanley">Spaeth, Barbette Stanley</a>. <i>The Roman Goddess Ceres</i>. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1996.</li> <li>Takács, Sarolta A. 2008. <i>Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons: Women in Roman Religion</i>. 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<li><a href="/wiki/Angerona" title="Angerona">Angerona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Perenna" title="Anna Perenna">Anna Perenna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurora_(mythology)" title="Aurora (mythology)">Aurora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bellona_(goddess)" title="Bellona (goddess)">Bellona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bona_Dea" title="Bona Dea">Bona Dea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carmenta" title="Carmenta">Carmenta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux" title="Castor and Pollux">Castor and Pollux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceres_(mythology)" title="Ceres (mythology)">Ceres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cloacina" title="Cloacina">Cloacina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cupid" title="Cupid">Cupid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dea_Dia" title="Dea Dia">Dea Dia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diana_(mythology)" title="Diana (mythology)">Diana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dies_(deity)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dies 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Lupa_Capitolina%2C_Rome.jpg/100px-Lupa_Capitolina%2C_Rome.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="65" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Lupa_Capitolina%2C_Rome.jpg/150px-Lupa_Capitolina%2C_Rome.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Lupa_Capitolina%2C_Rome.jpg/200px-Lupa_Capitolina%2C_Rome.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7489" data-file-height="4876" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #F0ACAC;;width:1%">Legendary figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aeneas" title="Aeneas">Aeneas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhea_Silvia" title="Rhea Silvia">Rhea Silvia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romulus_and_Remus" title="Romulus and Remus">Romulus and Remus</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople" title="Fall of Constantinople">fall</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Later_Roman_Empire" title="Later Roman Empire">Later Roman Empire</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Later_Roman_Empire" title="History of the Later Roman Empire">History</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Constitution" title="Roman Constitution">Constitution</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Roman_Constitution" title="History of the Roman Constitution">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Roman_Kingdom" title="Constitution of the Roman Kingdom">Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Roman_Republic" title="Constitution of the Roman Republic">Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Roman_Empire" title="Constitution of the Roman Empire">Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Late_Roman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitution of the Late Roman Empire">Late Empire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">Senate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_assemblies" title="Roman assemblies">Legislative assemblies</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Curiate_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Curiate Assembly">Curiate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centuriate_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Centuriate Assembly">Centuriate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tribal_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribal Assembly">Tribal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plebeian_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebeian Council">Plebeian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_magistrate" title="Roman magistrate">Executive magistrates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SPQR" title="SPQR">SPQR</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Roman_law" title="Roman law">Law</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Twelve_Tables" title="Twelve Tables">Twelve Tables</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mos_maiorum" title="Mos maiorum">Mos maiorum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_citizenship" title="Roman citizenship">Citizenship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auctoritas" title="Auctoritas">Auctoritas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperium" title="Imperium">Imperium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Status_in_Roman_legal_system" title="Status in Roman legal system">Status</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_litigation" title="Roman litigation">Litigation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Political_institutions_of_ancient_Rome" title="Political institutions of ancient Rome">Government</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Curia" title="Curia">Curia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forum_(Roman)" title="Forum (Roman)">Forum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cursus_honorum" title="Cursus honorum">Cursus honorum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collegiality#In_the_Roman_Republic" title="Collegiality">Collegiality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_emperor" title="Roman emperor">Emperor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legatus" class="mw-redirect" title="Legatus">Legatus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dux" title="Dux">Dux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Officium_(ancient_Rome)" title="Officium (ancient Rome)">Officium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Praefectus" title="Praefectus">Praefectus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vicarius" title="Vicarius">Vicarius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vigintisexviri" title="Vigintisexviri">Vigintisexviri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lictor" title="Lictor">Lictor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magister_militum" title="Magister militum">Magister militum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imperator" title="Imperator">Imperator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Princeps_senatus" title="Princeps senatus">Princeps senatus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontifex_maximus" title="Pontifex maximus">Pontifex maximus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustus_(title)" title="Augustus (title)">Augustus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caesar_(title)" title="Caesar (title)">Caesar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tetrarchy" title="Tetrarchy">Tetrarch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Optimates_and_populares" title="Optimates and populares">Optimates and populares</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">Province</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Roman_magistrate" title="Roman magistrate">Magistrates</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks hlist navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Ordinary</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">Consul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_censor" title="Roman censor">Censor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Praetor" title="Praetor">Praetor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tribune" title="Tribune">Tribune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tribune_of_the_plebs" title="Tribune of the plebs">Tribune of the plebs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_tribune" title="Military tribune">Military tribune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quaestor" title="Quaestor">Quaestor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aedile" title="Aedile">Aedile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Promagistrate" title="Promagistrate">Promagistrate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_governor" title="Roman governor">Governor</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Extraordinary</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/King_of_Rome" title="King of Rome">Rex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Interrex" title="Interrex">Interrex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_dictator" title="Roman dictator">Dictator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magister_equitum" title="Magister equitum">Magister equitum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decemviri" title="Decemviri">Decemviri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tribuni_militum_consulari_potestate" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribuni militum consulari potestate">Consular tribune</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Triumvirate_(ancient_Rome)" title="Triumvirate (ancient Rome)">Triumvir</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Military_of_ancient_Rome" title="Military of ancient Rome">Military</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Military_history_of_ancient_Rome" title="Military history of ancient Rome">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borders_of_the_Roman_Empire" title="Borders of the Roman Empire">Borders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_establishment_of_the_Roman_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Military establishment of the Roman Republic">Establishment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Structural_history_of_the_Roman_military" title="Structural history of the Roman military">Structure</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campaign_history_of_the_Roman_military" title="Campaign history of the Roman military">Campaigns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_history_of_the_Roman_military" title="Political history of the Roman military">Political control</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strategy_of_the_Roman_military" title="Strategy of the Roman military">Strategy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_military_engineering" title="Roman military engineering">Engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_military_frontiers_and_fortifications" title="Roman military frontiers and fortifications">Frontiers and fortifications</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Castra" title="Castra">castra</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Technological_history_of_the_Roman_military" title="Technological history of the Roman military">Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_army" title="Roman army">Army</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roman_legion" title="Roman legion">Legion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_infantry_tactics" title="Roman infantry tactics">Infantry tactics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_military_personal_equipment" title="Roman military personal equipment">Personal equipment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_siege_engines" title="Roman siege engines">Siege engines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_(Roman_history)" class="mw-redirect" title="Siege (Roman history)">Siege in Ancient Rome</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_navy" title="Roman navy">Navy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auxilia" title="Auxilia">Auxiliaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_military_decorations_and_punishments" title="Roman military decorations and punishments">Decorations and punishments</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippika_gymnasia" title="Hippika gymnasia">Hippika gymnasia</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Roman_economy" title="Roman economy">Economy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agriculture_in_ancient_Rome" title="Agriculture in ancient Rome">Agriculture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deforestation_during_the_Roman_period" title="Deforestation during the Roman period">Deforestation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_commerce" title="Roman commerce">Commerce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_finance" title="Roman finance">Finance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_currency" title="Roman currency">Currency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Republican_currency" title="Roman Republican currency">Republican currency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Imperial_currency" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Imperial currency">Imperial currency</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_ancient_Rome" title="Culture of ancient Rome">Culture</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_architecture" title="Ancient Roman architecture">Architecture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_art" title="Roman art">Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_bathing" title="Ancient Roman bathing">Bathing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_calendar" title="Roman calendar">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clothing_in_ancient_Rome" title="Clothing in ancient Rome">Clothing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cosmetics_in_ancient_Rome" title="Cosmetics in ancient Rome">Cosmetics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_cuisine" title="Ancient Roman cuisine">Cuisine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_ancient_Rome" title="Education in ancient Rome">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_folklore" title="Roman folklore">Folklore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_hairstyles" title="Roman hairstyles">Hairstyles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_literature" title="Latin literature">Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_ancient_Rome" title="Music of ancient Rome">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_mythology" title="Roman mythology">Mythology</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Religion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Roman_deities" title="List of Roman deities">Deities</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanization_(cultural)" title="Romanization (cultural)">Romanization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_people" title="Roman people">Romans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sexuality_in_ancient_Rome" title="Sexuality in ancient Rome">Sexuality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spectacles_in_ancient_Rome" title="Spectacles in ancient Rome">Spectacles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_ancient_Rome" title="Theatre of ancient Rome">Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toys_and_games_in_ancient_Rome" title="Toys and games in ancient Rome">Toys and games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome_and_wine" title="Ancient Rome and wine">Wine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Social_class_in_ancient_Rome" title="Social class in ancient Rome">Society</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Patrician_(ancient_Rome)" title="Patrician (ancient Rome)">Patricians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plebeians" title="Plebeians">Plebs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conflict_of_the_Orders" title="Conflict of the Orders">Conflict of the Orders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secessio_plebis" title="Secessio plebis">Secessio plebis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Equites" title="Equites">Equites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gens" title="Gens">Gens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_tribe" title="Roman tribe">Tribes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tribal_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribal Assembly">Assembly</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patronage_in_ancient_Rome" title="Patronage in ancient Rome">Patronage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_naming_conventions" title="Roman naming conventions">Naming conventions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demography_of_the_Roman_Empire" title="Demography of the Roman Empire">Demography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_ancient_Rome" title="Women in ancient Rome">Women</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marriage_in_ancient_Rome" title="Marriage in ancient Rome">Marriage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adoption_in_ancient_Rome" title="Adoption in ancient Rome">Adoption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome" title="Slavery in ancient Rome">Slavery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagaudae" title="Bagaudae">Bagaudae</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_technology" title="Ancient Roman technology">Technology</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roman_amphitheatre" title="Roman amphitheatre">Amphitheatres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_aqueduct" title="Roman aqueduct">Aqueducts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_bridge" title="Roman bridge">Bridges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_circus" title="Roman circus">Circuses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Roman_engineering" title="Ancient Roman engineering">Civil engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_concrete" title="Roman concrete">Concrete</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Roman_and_Byzantine_domes" title="History of Roman and Byzantine domes">Domes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_metallurgy" title="Roman metallurgy">Metallurgy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_numerals" title="Roman numerals">Numerals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_roads" title="Roman roads">Roads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanitation_in_ancient_Rome" title="Sanitation in ancient Rome">Sanitation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ships_of_ancient_Rome" title="Ships of ancient Rome">Ships</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_temple" title="Roman temple">Temples</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_theatre_(structure)" title="Roman theatre (structure)">Theatres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thermae" title="Thermae">Thermae</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Latin" title="History of Latin">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latin_alphabet" title="Latin alphabet">Alphabet</a></li> <li>Versions <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Old_Latin" title="Old Latin">Old</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Classical_Latin" title="Classical Latin">Classical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vulgar_Latin" title="Vulgar Latin">Vulgar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Late_Latin" title="Late Latin">Late</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medieval_Latin" title="Medieval Latin">Medieval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renaissance_Latin" title="Renaissance Latin">Renaissance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Latin" title="Neo-Latin">Neo-Latin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contemporary_Latin" title="Contemporary Latin">Contemporary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin" title="Ecclesiastical Latin">Ecclesiastical</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romance_languages" title="Romance languages">Romance languages</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Writers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks hlist navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Latin_literature" title="Latin literature">Latin</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aelius_Donatus" title="Aelius Donatus">Aelius Donatus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ammianus_Marcellinus" title="Ammianus Marcellinus">Ammianus Marcellinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apuleius" title="Apuleius">Appuleius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Asconius_Pedianus" title="Quintus Asconius Pedianus">Asconius Pedianus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">Augustine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurelius_Victor" title="Aurelius Victor">Aurelius Victor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ausonius" title="Ausonius">Ausonius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boethius" title="Boethius">Boëthius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Caesar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catullus" title="Catullus">Catullus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassiodorus" title="Cassiodorus">Cassiodorus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorinus" title="Censorinus">Censorinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claudian" title="Claudian">Claudian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columella" title="Columella">Columella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornelius_Nepos" title="Cornelius Nepos">Cornelius Nepos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ennius" title="Ennius">Ennius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eutropius_(historian)" title="Eutropius (historian)">Eutropius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Pictor" title="Quintus Fabius Pictor">Fabius Pictor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sextus_Pompeius_Festus" title="Sextus Pompeius Festus">Sextus Pompeius Festus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Festus_(historian)" title="Festus (historian)">Rufus Festus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Works_attributed_to_Florus" class="mw-redirect" title="Works attributed to Florus">Florus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontinus" title="Frontinus">Frontinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Cornelius_Fronto" title="Marcus Cornelius Fronto">Fronto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fabius_Planciades_Fulgentius" title="Fabius Planciades Fulgentius">Fulgentius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aulus_Gellius" title="Aulus Gellius">Gellius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horace" title="Horace">Horace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hydatius" title="Hydatius">Hydatius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus" title="Gaius Julius Hyginus">Hyginus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerome" title="Jerome">Jerome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordanes" title="Jordanes">Jordanes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Paulus" title="Julius Paulus">Julius Paulus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Justin_(historian)" title="Justin (historian)">Justin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juvenal" title="Juvenal">Juvenal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lactantius" title="Lactantius">Lactantius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Livy" title="Livy">Livy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucan" title="Lucan">Lucan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucretius" title="Lucretius">Lucretius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macrobius" title="Macrobius">Macrobius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcellus_Empiricus" title="Marcellus Empiricus">Marcellus Empiricus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius" title="Marcus Aurelius">Marcus Aurelius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Manilius" title="Marcus Manilius">Manilius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martial" title="Martial">Martial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicolaus_of_Damascus" title="Nicolaus of Damascus">Nicolaus Damascenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nonius_Marcellus" title="Nonius Marcellus">Nonius Marcellus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Obsequens" title="Julius Obsequens">Obsequens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orosius" title="Orosius">Orosius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petronius" title="Petronius">Petronius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phaedrus_(fabulist)" title="Phaedrus (fabulist)">Phaedrus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plautus" title="Plautus">Plautus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny the Elder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger" title="Pliny the Younger">Pliny the Younger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pomponius_Mela" title="Pomponius Mela">Pomponius Mela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priscian" title="Priscian">Priscian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Propertius" title="Propertius">Propertius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Claudius_Quadrigarius" title="Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius">Quadrigarius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintilian" title="Quintilian">Quintilian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Curtius_Rufus" title="Quintus Curtius Rufus">Quintus Curtius Rufus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sallust" title="Sallust">Sallust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Elder" title="Seneca the Elder">Seneca the Elder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger" title="Seneca the Younger">Seneca the Younger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurus_Servius_Honoratus" class="mw-redirect" title="Maurus Servius Honoratus">Servius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidonius_Apollinaris" title="Sidonius Apollinaris">Sidonius Apollinaris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silius_Italicus" title="Silius Italicus">Silius Italicus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statius" title="Statius">Statius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suetonius" title="Suetonius">Suetonius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quintus_Aurelius_Symmachus" title="Quintus Aurelius Symmachus">Symmachus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terence" title="Terence">Terence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tertullian" title="Tertullian">Tertullian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibullus" title="Tibullus">Tibullus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valerius_Antias" title="Valerius Antias">Valerius Antias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valerius_Maximus" title="Valerius Maximus">Valerius Maximus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro" title="Marcus Terentius Varro">Varro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Velleius_Paterculus" title="Velleius Paterculus">Velleius Paterculus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verrius_Flaccus" title="Verrius Flaccus">Verrius Flaccus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Vergil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vitruvius" title="Vitruvius">Vitruvius</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_literature" title="Ancient Greek literature">Greek</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Claudius_Aelianus" title="Claudius Aelianus">Aelian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A%C3%ABtius_of_Amida" title="Aëtius of Amida">Aëtius of Amida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appian" title="Appian">Appian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arrian" title="Arrian">Arrian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassius_Dio" title="Cassius Dio">Cassius Dio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diodorus_Siculus" title="Diodorus Siculus">Diodorus Siculus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius" class="mw-redirect" title="Diogenes Laërtius">Diogenes Laërtius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus" title="Dionysius of Halicarnassus">Dionysius of Halicarnassus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedanius_Dioscorides" title="Pedanius Dioscorides">Dioscorides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eusebius" title="Eusebius">Eusebius of Caesaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galen" title="Galen">Galen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herodian" title="Herodian">Herodian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julian_(emperor)" title="Julian (emperor)">Julian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libanius" title="Libanius">Libanius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucian" title="Lucian">Lucian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philostratus" title="Philostratus">Philostratus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phlegon_of_Tralles" title="Phlegon of Tralles">Phlegon of Tralles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Photios_I_of_Constantinople" title="Photios I of Constantinople">Photius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polyaenus" title="Polyaenus">Polyaenus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polybius" title="Polybius">Polybius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Porphyry_(philosopher)" title="Porphyry (philosopher)">Porphyrius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priscus" title="Priscus">Priscus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Procopius" title="Procopius">Procopius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simplicius_of_Cilicia" title="Simplicius of Cilicia">Simplicius of Cilicia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sozomen" title="Sozomen">Sozomen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephanus_of_Byzantium" title="Stephanus of Byzantium">Stephanus Byzantinus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strabo" title="Strabo">Strabo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Themistius" title="Themistius">Themistius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodoret" title="Theodoret">Theodoret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joannes_Zonaras" title="Joannes Zonaras">Zonaras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zosimus_(historian)" title="Zosimus (historian)">Zosimus</a></li></ul> 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gentes">Gentes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Graeco-Roman_geographers" title="List of Graeco-Roman geographers">Geographers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_institutions_of_ancient_Rome" title="Political institutions of ancient Rome">Institutions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Roman_laws" title="List of Roman laws">Laws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legacy_of_the_Roman_Empire" title="Legacy of the Roman Empire">Legacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Roman_legions" title="List of Roman legions">Legions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Roman_dictators" title="List of Roman dictators">Magistri equitum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Roman_nomina" title="List of Roman nomina">Nomina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_pontifices_maximi" title="List of pontifices maximi">Pontifices maximi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Roman_praetors" title="List of Roman praetors">Praetors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Roman_quaestors" title="List of Roman quaestors">Quaestors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Roman_tribunes" title="List of Roman tribunes">Tribunes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman%E2%80%93Iranian_relations" title="Roman–Iranian relations">Roman–Iranian relations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Roman_external_wars_and_battles" title="List of Roman external wars and battles">External wars and battles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Roman_civil_wars_and_revolts" title="List of Roman civil wars and revolts">Civil wars and revolts</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="History_of_religions" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith" title="History of the Baháʼí Faith">Baháʼí</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Christianity" title="History of Christianity">Christianity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Islam" title="History of Islam">Islam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_history" title="Jewish history">Judaism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Rastafari" title="History of Rastafari">Rastafari</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;padding-top:0.25em;font-weight:normal; line-height:1.4em; padding-bottom:0.25em;"><a href="/wiki/Mythologies_of_the_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas">Amerindian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aztec_religion" title="Aztec religion">Aztec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maya_religion" title="Maya religion">Mayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Inca_Empire" title="Religion in the Inca Empire">Inca</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;padding-top:0.25em;font-weight:normal; line-height:1.4em; padding-bottom:0.25em;"><a href="/wiki/East_Asian_religions" title="East Asian religions">East Asian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Confucianism" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Confucianism">Confucianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Taoism" title="History of Taoism">Taoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shintoism#History" class="mw-redirect" title="Shintoism">Shinto</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;padding-top:0.25em;font-weight:normal; line-height:1.4em; padding-bottom:0.25em;"><a href="/wiki/Indian_religions" title="Indian religions">Indian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Buddhism" title="History of Buddhism">Buddhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Hinduism" title="History of Hinduism">Hinduism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Jainism" title="History of Jainism">Jainism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Sikhism" title="History of Sikhism">Sikhism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;padding-top:0.25em;font-weight:normal; line-height:1.4em; padding-bottom:0.25em;"><a href="/wiki/Iranian_religions" title="Iranian religions">Iranian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mithraism" title="Mithraism">Mithraism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoroastrianism#History" title="Zoroastrianism">Zoroastrianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manichaeism#Origins" title="Manichaeism">Manichaeanism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;padding-top:0.25em;font-weight:normal; line-height:1.4em; padding-bottom:0.25em;"><a href="/wiki/New_religious_movement" title="New religious movement">Modern</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Neopaganism" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Neopaganism">Neopaganism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Wicca" title="History of Wicca">Wicca</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_New_Thought" title="History of New Thought">New Thought</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kardecist_spiritism" title="Kardecist spiritism">Kardecist spiritism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0;background:transparent;"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;;padding-top:0.25em;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.4em;padding-bottom:0.25em;"><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_religion" title="Prehistoric religion">Prehistoric</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paleolithic_religion" title="Paleolithic religion">Paleolithic</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;;padding-top:0.25em;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.4em;padding-bottom:0.25em;"><a href="/wiki/Religions_of_the_ancient_Near_East" title="Religions of the ancient Near East">Near East</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion" title="Ancient Egyptian religion">Egyptian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Semitic_religion" title="Ancient Semitic religion">Semitic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Mesopotamian_religion" title="Ancient Mesopotamian religion">Mesopotamian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:9.0em;;padding-top:0.25em;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.4em;padding-bottom:0.25em;"><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_mythology" title="Proto-Indo-European mythology">Indo-European</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltic religion">Baltic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celtic_polytheism" 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Western_religions" title="Western religions">Western</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Abrahamic_religions" title="Abrahamic religions">Abrahamic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> 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Judaism">Humanistic</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jewish_religious_movements" title="Jewish religious movements">list</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholicism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Latin_Church" title="Latin Church">Latin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches" title="Eastern Catholic Churches">Eastern</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy" title="Eastern Orthodoxy">Eastern Orthodoxy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oriental_Orthodoxy" class="mw-redirect" title="Oriental Orthodoxy">Oriental Orthodoxy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nestorianism" title="Nestorianism">Nestorianism</a> <ul><li><a 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title="Mennonites">Mennonites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schwenkfelder_Church" title="Schwenkfelder Church">Schwenkfelder Church</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anglicanism" title="Anglicanism">Anglicanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baptists" title="Baptists">Baptists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calvinism" class="mw-redirect" title="Calvinism">Calvinism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Congregational_church" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregational church">Congregationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presbyterianism" title="Presbyterianism">Presbyterianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Reformed_Protestantism" title="Continental Reformed Protestantism">Reformed</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charismatic_Christianity" title="Charismatic Christianity">Charismatic Christianity</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism">Pentecostal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charismatic_movement" title="Charismatic movement">Charismatic</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Ali-Illahism" title="Ali-Illahism">Ali-Illahism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isma%27ilism" title="Isma'ilism">Isma'ilism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twelver_Shi%27ism" title="Twelver Shi'ism">Twelver Shi'ism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zaydism" title="Zaydism">Zaydism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sufism" title="Sufism">Sufism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kharijites" title="Kharijites">Khawarij</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ibadi_Islam" title="Ibadi Islam">Ibadism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alevism" title="Alevism">Alevism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ishikism" title="Ishikism">Ishikism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurdish_Alevism" title="Kurdish Alevism">Kurdish Alevism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahmadiyya" title="Ahmadiyya">Ahmadi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahdawi_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahdawi movement">Mahdavism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quranism" title="Quranism">Quranism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milah_Abraham" title="Milah Abraham">Milah Abraham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Non-denominational_Muslim" title="Non-denominational Muslim">Non-denominational</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Islamic_schools_and_branches" title="Islamic schools and branches">list</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/B%C3%A1bism" title="Bábism">Bábism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Azali" title="Azali">Azalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith" title="Baháʼí Faith">Baháʼí</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Druze" title="Druze">Druze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandaeism" title="Mandaeism">Mandaeism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rastafari" title="Rastafari">Rastafari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samaritanism" title="Samaritanism">Samaritanism</a></li></ul> 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title="Zurvanism">Zurvanism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Kurdish</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shabakism" class="mw-redirect" title="Shabakism">Shabakism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarsanism" title="Yarsanism">Yarsanism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Assianism" title="Assianism">Assianism/Uatsdin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roshani_movement" title="Roshani movement">Roshani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manichaeism" title="Manichaeism">Manichaeism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Manichaeism" title="Chinese Manichaeism">Chinese Manichaeism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yazd%C3%A2nism" title="Yazdânism">Yazdânism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yazidism" title="Yazidism">Yazidism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_religions" title="Eastern religions">Eastern</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/East_Asian_religions" title="East Asian religions">East Asian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_China" title="Religion in China">Chinese</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_folk_religion" title="Chinese folk religion">Chinese folk religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Confucianism" title="Confucianism">Confucianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luo_teaching" title="Luo teaching">Luoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuo_folk_religion" title="Nuo folk religion">Nuo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_salvationist_religions" title="Chinese salvationist religions">Salvationist</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Xiantiandao" title="Xiantiandao">Xiantiandao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yiguandao" title="Yiguandao">Yiguandao</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taoism" title="Taoism">Taoism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_ritual_mastery_traditions" title="Chinese ritual mastery traditions">Folk Taoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yao_folk_religion" title="Yao folk religion">Yao Taoism</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Japan" title="Religion in Japan">Japonic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shinto" title="Shinto">Shinto</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Shinto_sects_and_schools" title="Shinto sects and schools">list</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shugend%C5%8D" title="Shugendō">Shugendō</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenrikyo" title="Tenrikyo">Tenrikyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ryukyuan_religion" title="Ryukyuan religion">Ryukyuan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Korea" title="Religion in Korea">Korean</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Korean_shamanism" title="Korean shamanism">Korean shamanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheondoism" title="Cheondoism">Cheondoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeung_San_Do" title="Jeung San Do">Jeungsanism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Vietnam" title="Religion in Vietnam">Vietnamese</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_folk_religion" title="Vietnamese folk religion">Vietnamese folk religion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BA%A1o_M%E1%BA%ABu" title="Đạo Mẫu">Đạo Mẫu</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caodaism" title="Caodaism">Caodaism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%C3%B2a_H%E1%BA%A3o" title="Hòa Hảo">Hoahaoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BA%A1o_B%E1%BB%ADu_S%C6%A1n_K%E1%BB%B3_H%C6%B0%C6%A1ng" title="Đạo Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương">Đạo Bửu Sơn Kỳ Hương</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Indian_religions" title="Indian religions">Indian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vaishnavism" title="Vaishnavism">Vaishnavism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Krishnaism" title="Krishnaism">Krishnaism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Vaishnavism" title="Sri Vaishnavism">Sri Vaishnavism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brahma_Sampradaya" title="Brahma Sampradaya">Brahma Sampradaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nimbarka_Sampradaya" title="Nimbarka Sampradaya">Nimbarka Sampradaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pushtimarg" class="mw-redirect" title="Pushtimarg">Pushtimarg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahanubhava" title="Mahanubhava">Mahanubhava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramanandi_Sampradaya" title="Ramanandi Sampradaya">Ramanandi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warkari" title="Warkari">Warkari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swaminarayan_Sampradaya" title="Swaminarayan Sampradaya">Swaminarayan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaivism" title="Shaivism">Shaivism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shaiva_Siddhanta" title="Shaiva Siddhanta">Shaiva Siddhanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ganapatya" title="Ganapatya">Ganapatya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kashmir_Shaivism" title="Kashmir Shaivism">Kashmiri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapalika" title="Kapalika">Kapalika</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaumaram" title="Kaumaram">Kaumaram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lingayatism" title="Lingayatism">Lingayatism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nath" class="mw-redirect" title="Nath">Nath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balinese_Hinduism" title="Balinese Hinduism">Balinese</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaktism" title="Shaktism">Shaktism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smarta_tradition" title="Smarta tradition">Smartism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saura_(Hinduism)" title="Saura (Hinduism)">Sauraism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%9Arauta" title="Śrauta">Śrauta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sant_Mat" title="Sant Mat">Sant Mat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindu_reform_movements" title="Hindu reform movements">Neo-Hinduism</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hindu_denominations" title="Hindu denominations">list</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Theravada" title="Theravada">Theravada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahayana" title="Mahayana">Mahayana</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chan_Buddhism" title="Chan Buddhism">Chan</a>/<a href="/wiki/Zen" title="Zen">Zen</a>/<a href="/wiki/Thi%E1%BB%81n" title="Thiền">Thiền</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pure_Land_Buddhism" title="Pure Land Buddhism">Amidism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nichiren_Buddhism" title="Nichiren Buddhism">Nichiren</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vajrayana" title="Vajrayana">Vajrayana</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism" title="Tibetan Buddhism">Tibetan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_modernism" title="Buddhist modernism">Neo-Buddhism</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Schools_of_Buddhism" title="Schools of Buddhism">list</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ayyavazhi" title="Ayyavazhi">Ayyavazhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalash_people#Religion" title="Kalash people">Kalash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Digambara" title="Digambara">Digambara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%9Avet%C4%81mbara" title="Śvetāmbara">Śvetāmbara</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarnaism" title="Sarnaism">Sarnaism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirat_Mundhum" title="Kirat Mundhum">Kirat Mundhum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vedda#Religion" title="Vedda">Vedda religions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravidassia" title="Ravidassia">Ravidassia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sikhism" title="Sikhism">Sikhism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Khalsa" title="Khalsa">Khalsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sects_of_Sikhism" title="Sects of Sikhism">Sects</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_religion" title="Ethnic religion">Ethnic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Altaic_languages" title="Altaic languages">Altaic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Turkic_mythology" title="Turkic mythology">Turko</a>-<a href="/wiki/Mongolian_shamanism" title="Mongolian shamanism">Mongolic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Burkhanism" title="Burkhanism">Burkhanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tengrism" title="Tengrism">Tengrism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vattisen_Yaly" title="Vattisen Yaly">Vattisen Yaly</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tungusic_creation_myth" title="Tungusic creation myth">Tungusic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Evenks#Religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Evenks">Evenki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchu_shamanism" title="Manchu shamanism">Manchu</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Austroasiatic_languages" title="Austroasiatic languages">Austroasiatic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sarna_(place)" title="Sarna (place)">Sarnaism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Austronesian_languages" title="Austronesian languages">Austronesian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Parmalim" title="Parmalim">Batak Parmalim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dayak_people#Religion_and_festivals" title="Dayak people">Dayak</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kaharingan" title="Kaharingan">Kaharingan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Sabahan_religions" title="Traditional Sabahan religions">Traditional Sabahan religions</a></li></ul></li> <li>Indonesian <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aliran_Kepercayaan" title="Aliran Kepercayaan">Aliran Kepercayaan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kejaw%C3%A8n" title="Kejawèn">Kejawèn</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kapitayan" title="Kapitayan">Kapitayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pemena" title="Pemena">Karo Pemena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaysian_folk_religion" title="Malaysian folk religion">Malaysian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_Philippine_folk_religions" title="Indigenous Philippine folk religions">Philippine Dayawism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_religious_beliefs_of_the_Tagalog_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Indigenous religious beliefs of the Tagalog people">Tagalog</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polynesian_mythology" title="Polynesian mythology">Polynesian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_religion" title="Hawaiian religion">Hawaiian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_of_M%C4%81ori_people" title="Religion of Māori people">Māori</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marapu" title="Marapu">Sumbese Marapu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunda_Wiwitan" title="Sunda Wiwitan">Sundanese Wiwitan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Native_American_religions" title="Native American religions">Native<br />American</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abenaki_mythology" title="Abenaki mythology">Abenaki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alaska_Native_religion" title="Alaska Native religion">Alaskan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anishinaabe_traditional_beliefs" title="Anishinaabe traditional beliefs">Anishinaabe</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ojibwe#Spiritual_beliefs" title="Ojibwe">Ojibwe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midewiwin" title="Midewiwin">Midewiwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wabunowin" title="Wabunowin">Wabunowin</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apache#Religion" title="Apache">Apache</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blackfoot_mythology" title="Blackfoot mythology">Blackfoot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_narratives_of_Indigenous_Californians" title="Traditional narratives of Indigenous Californians">Californian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kuksu_(religion)" title="Kuksu (religion)">Kuksu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miwok_mythology" title="Miwok mythology">Miwok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ohlone_mythology" title="Ohlone mythology">Ohlone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pomo_religion" title="Pomo religion">Pomo</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chilote_mythology" title="Chilote mythology">Chilote</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Choctaw_mythology" title="Choctaw mythology">Choctaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crow_religion" title="Crow religion">Crow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_Dance" title="Ghost Dance">Ghost Dance</a>/<a href="/wiki/Sun_Dance" title="Sun Dance">Sun Dance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guarani_mythology" title="Guarani mythology">Guarani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haida_mythology" title="Haida mythology">Haida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ho-Chunk_mythology" title="Ho-Chunk mythology">Ho-Chunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iroquois_mythology" title="Iroquois mythology">Iroquois</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee_spiritual_beliefs" title="Cherokee spiritual beliefs">Cherokee</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Four_Mothers_Society" title="Four Mothers Society">Four Mothers Society</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keetoowah_Nighthawk_Society" title="Keetoowah Nighthawk Society">Keetoowah Society</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longhouse_Religion" title="Longhouse Religion">Longhouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohawk_people#Religion" title="Mohawk people">Mohawk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creek_mythology" title="Creek mythology">Muscogee Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_mythology" title="Seneca mythology">Seneca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wyandot_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Wyandot religion">Wyandot</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jivaroan_peoples#Religion" title="Jivaroan peoples">Jivaroan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kwakwaka%CA%BCwakw_mythology" title="Kwakwakaʼwakw mythology">Kwakwakaʼwakw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenape_mythology" title="Lenape mythology">Lenape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mapuche_religion" title="Mapuche religion">Mapuche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mesoamerican_religion" title="Mesoamerican religion">Mesoamerican</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aztec_religion" title="Aztec religion">Aztec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maya_religion" title="Maya religion">Maya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pur%C3%A9pecha_religion" title="Purépecha religion">Purépecha</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muisca_mythology" title="Muisca mythology">Muisca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_American_Church" title="Native American Church">Native American Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navajo#Spiritual_and_religious_beliefs" title="Navajo">Navajo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuu-chah-nulth_mythology" title="Nuu-chah-nulth mythology">Nuu-chah-nulth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pawnee_mythology" title="Pawnee mythology">Pawnee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pueblo_religion" title="Pueblo religion">Pueblo</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acoma_Pueblo#Religion" title="Acoma Pueblo">Acoma Pueblo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hopi_mythology" title="Hopi mythology">Hopi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zuni_mythology" title="Zuni mythology">Zuni</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sioux#Religion" title="Sioux">Sioux</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lakota_religion" title="Lakota religion">Lakota</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wocekiye" title="Wocekiye">Wocekiye</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsimshian_mythology" title="Tsimshian mythology">Tsimshian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ute_mythology" title="Ute mythology">Ute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_American_religions#Washat_Dreamers_Religion" title="Native American religions">Washat Dreamers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yaqui#Yaqui_cosmology_and_religion" title="Yaqui">Yaqui</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tai_peoples" title="Tai peoples">Tai</a> and <a href="/wiki/Miao_people" title="Miao people">Miao</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ahom_religion" title="Ahom religion">Ahom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miao_folk_religion" title="Miao folk religion">Hmongism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mo_(religion)" title="Mo (religion)">Mo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tai_folk_religion" title="Tai folk religion">Satsana Phi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tibeto-Burman_languages" title="Tibeto-Burman languages">Tibeto-Burmese</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bon" title="Bon">Bon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burmese_folk_religion" title="Burmese folk religion">Burmese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benzhuism" title="Benzhuism">Benzhuism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bimoism" title="Bimoism">Bimoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bathouism" title="Bathouism">Bathouism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mun_(religion)" title="Mun (religion)">Bongthingism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dongba" title="Dongba">Dongba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donyi-Polo" title="Donyi-Polo">Donyi-Polo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heraka" class="mw-redirect" title="Heraka">Heraka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirat_Mundhum" title="Kirat Mundhum">Kiratism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qiang_folk_religion" title="Qiang folk religion">Qiang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanamahism" title="Sanamahism">Sanamahism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Traditional_African_religions" title="Traditional African religions">Traditional <br /> African</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">North African</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Berber_religion" title="Traditional Berber religion">Berber</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Guanche_People" title="Church of the Guanche People">Guanche church</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Africa" title="Religion in Africa">Sub-Saharan<br />African</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kamba_people" title="Kamba people">Akamba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akan_religion" title="Akan religion">Akan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baluba_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Baluba mythology">Baluba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bantu_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Bantu mythology">Bantu</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kongo_religion" title="Kongo religion">Kongo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zulu_traditional_religion" title="Zulu traditional religion">Zulu</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bushongo_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Bushongo mythology">Bushongo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinka_religion" title="Dinka religion">Dinka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dogon_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Dogon religion">Dogon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Efik_mythology" title="Efik mythology">Efik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dahomean_religion" title="Dahomean religion">Fon and Ewe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ik_people" title="Ik people">Ik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lotuko_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Lotuko mythology">Lotuko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lozi_mythology" title="Lozi mythology">Lozi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lugbara_mythology" title="Lugbara mythology">Lugbara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maasai_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Maasai mythology">Maasai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mbuti_mythology" title="Mbuti mythology">Mbuti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odinala" title="Odinala">Odinala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_religion" title="San religion">San</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serer_religion" title="Serer religion">Serer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tumbuka_mythology" title="Tumbuka mythology">Tumbuka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urhobo_people" title="Urhobo people">Urhobo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waaqeffanna" title="Waaqeffanna">Waaqeffanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoruba_religion" title="Yoruba religion">Yoruba</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/If%C3%A1" title="Ifá">Ifá</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/African_diaspora_religions" title="African diaspora religions">Diasporic</a>:</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9" title="Candomblé">Candomblé</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9_Bantu" title="Candomblé Bantu">Bantu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9_Jej%C3%A9" title="Candomblé Jejé">Jejé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Candombl%C3%A9_Ketu" title="Candomblé Ketu">Ketu</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comfa" title="Comfa">Comfa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Convince" title="Convince">Convince</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Espiritismo" title="Espiritismo">Espiritismo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumina" title="Kumina">Kumina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obeah" title="Obeah">Obeah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palo_(religion)" title="Palo (religion)">Palo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quimbanda" title="Quimbanda">Quimbanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santer%C3%ADa" title="Santería">Santería</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tambor_de_Mina" title="Tambor de Mina">Tambor de Mina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trinidad_Orisha" title="Trinidad Orisha">Trinidad Orisha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Umbanda" title="Umbanda">Umbanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haitian_Vodou" title="Haitian Vodou">Vodou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Voodoo" title="Louisiana Voodoo">Voodoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winti" title="Winti">Winti</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Other ethnic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_religion_and_mythology" title="Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology">Aboriginal Australian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inuit_religion" title="Inuit religion">Inuit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papuan_mythology" title="Papuan mythology">Papuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shamanism_in_Siberia" title="Shamanism in Siberia">Siberian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/New_religious_movement" title="New religious movement">New<br /> religious<br /> movements</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Syncretic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zoroastrianism_in_Russia" title="Zoroastrianism in Russia">Blagovery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brahmoism" title="Brahmoism">Brahmoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coconut_Religion" title="Coconut Religion">Coconut Religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Falun_Gong" title="Falun Gong">Falun Gong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_new_religions" title="Japanese new religions">Japanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meivazhi" title="Meivazhi">Meivazhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modekngei" title="Modekngei">Modekngei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Acropolis" title="New Acropolis">New Acropolis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Age" title="New Age">New Age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Thought" title="New Thought">New Thought</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rajneesh_movement" title="Rajneesh movement">Rajneesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rastafari" title="Rastafari">Rastafari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roerichism" title="Roerichism">Roerichism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Contemporary_Sant_Mat_movements" title="Contemporary Sant Mat movements">Sant Mat</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Radha_Soami" title="Radha Soami">Radha Soami</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spiritualism_(movement)" title="Spiritualism (movement)">Spiritualism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subud" title="Subud">Subud</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tensegrity_(Castaneda)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tensegrity (Castaneda)">Tensegrity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thelema" title="Thelema">Thelema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theosophy" title="Theosophy">Theosophy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neo-Theosophy" title="Neo-Theosophy">Neo-Theosophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agni_Yoga" title="Agni Yoga">Agni Yoga</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation" title="Transcendental Meditation">Transcendental Meditation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism" title="Unitarian Universalism">Unitarian Universalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Universal_White_Brotherhood" title="Universal White Brotherhood">White Brotherhood</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Modern_paganism" title="Modern paganism">Modern<br />paganism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>African <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Godianism" title="Godianism">Godianism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hetanism" title="Hetanism">Armenian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_neopaganism" title="Baltic neopaganism">Baltic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dievtur%C4%ABba" title="Dievturība">Dievturība</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romuva_(religion)" title="Romuva (religion)">Romuva</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caucasian_neopaganism" title="Caucasian neopaganism">Caucasian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abkhaz_neopaganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Abkhaz neopaganism">Abkhaz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adyghe_Xabze" title="Adyghe Xabze">Circassian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celtic_neopaganism" title="Celtic neopaganism">Celtic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Druidry_(modern)" title="Druidry (modern)">Druidry</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heathenry_(new_religious_movement)" title="Heathenry (new religious movement)">Germanic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellenism_(modern_religion)" title="Hellenism (modern religion)">Hellenism (modern religion)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neoshamanism" title="Neoshamanism">Neoshamanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assianism" title="Assianism">Ossetian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polytheistic_reconstructionism" title="Polytheistic reconstructionism">Polytheistic reconstructionism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reconstructionist_Roman_religion" title="Reconstructionist Roman religion">Italo-Roman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kemetism" title="Kemetism">Kemetism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zalmoxianism" title="Zalmoxianism">Romanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_Native_Faith" title="Slavic Native Faith">Slavic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Authentism" title="Russian Authentism">Authentism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uralic_neopaganism" title="Uralic neopaganism">Uralic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Estonian_neopaganism" title="Estonian neopaganism">Estonian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modern_Finnish_paganism" title="Modern Finnish paganism">Finnish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Native_Faith" title="Hungarian Native Faith">Hungarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mari_religion" title="Mari religion">Mari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erzyan_native_religion" title="Erzyan native religion">Erzya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_shamanism" title="Sámi shamanism">Sámi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udmurt_Vos" title="Udmurt Vos">Udmurt</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wicca" title="Wicca">Wicca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zalmoxianism" title="Zalmoxianism">Zalmoxianism</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_modern_pagan_movements" title="List of modern pagan movements">list</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">De novo</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthroposophy" title="Anthroposophy">Anthroposophy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Christian_Community" title="The Christian Community">The Christian Community</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Discordianism" title="Discordianism">Discordianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eckankar" title="Eckankar">Eckankar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Way" title="Fourth Way">Fourth Way</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goddess_movement" title="Goddess movement">Goddess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jediism" title="Jediism">Jediism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satanism" title="Satanism">Satanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scientology" title="Scientology">Scientology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UFO_religion" title="UFO religion">UFO religion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism" title="Raëlism">Raëlism</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible uncollapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Historical_religions" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/History_of_religion" title="History of religion">Historical religions</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_religion" title="Prehistoric religion">Prehistoric</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paleolithic_religion" title="Paleolithic religion">Paleolithic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ainu_people#Religion" title="Ainu people">Ainu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_pre-Islamic_Arabia" title="Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia">Arabian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_mythology" title="Armenian mythology">Armenian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_mythology" title="Baltic mythology">Baltic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Latvian_mythology" title="Latvian mythology">Latvian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_mythology" title="Lithuanian mythology">Lithuanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prussian_mythology" title="Prussian mythology">Old Prussian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basque_mythology" title="Basque mythology">Basque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Celtic_religion" title="Ancient Celtic religion">Celtic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Druid" title="Druid">Druidism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_mythology" title="Irish mythology">Irish</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cook_Islands_mythology" title="Cook Islands mythology">Cook Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dravidian_folk_religion" title="Dravidian folk religion">Dravidian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion" title="Ancient Egyptian religion">Egyptian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Atenism" title="Atenism">Atenism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etruscan_religion" title="Etruscan religion">Etruscan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finnish_mythology" title="Finnish mythology">Finnish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuegians#Spiritual_culture" title="Fuegians">Fuegian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Selk%27nam_mythology" title="Selk'nam mythology">Selk'nam</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgian_mythology" title="Georgian mythology">Georgian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_paganism" title="Germanic paganism">Germanic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_paganism" title="Anglo-Saxon paganism">Anglo-Saxon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Germanic_mythology" title="Continental Germanic mythology">Continental</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankish_paganism" title="Frankish paganism">Frankish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_religion" title="Old Norse religion">Norse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_religion" title="Ancient Greek religion">Greek</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gnosticism" title="Gnosticism">Gnosticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greco-Buddhism" title="Greco-Buddhism">Greco-Buddhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermeticism" title="Hermeticism">Hermeticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries" title="Greco-Roman mysteries">Mysteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orphism_(religion)" title="Orphism (religion)">Orphism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guanches#System_of_beliefs" title="Guanches">Guanche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation#Religion" title="Indus Valley Civilisation">Harappan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hittite_mythology_and_religion" title="Hittite mythology and religion">Hittite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_mythology" title="Hungarian mythology">Hungarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hurrian_religion" title="Hurrian religion">Hurrian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illinois_Confederacy#Religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Illinois Confederacy">Illinois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inca_mythology" title="Inca mythology">Inca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaican_Maroon_religion" title="Jamaican Maroon religion">Jamaican Maroon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manichaeism" title="Manichaeism">Manichaeism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mazdak" title="Mazdak">Mazdakism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melanesian_mythology" title="Melanesian mythology">Melanesian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Mesopotamian_religion" title="Ancient Mesopotamian religion">Mesopotamian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Babylonian_religion" title="Babylonian religion">Babylonian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumerian_religion" title="Sumerian religion">Sumerian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Micronesian_mythology" title="Micronesian mythology">Micronesian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nauruan_Indigenous_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Nauruan Indigenous religion">Nauruan Indigenous religion</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olmec_religion" title="Olmec religion">Olmec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paleo-Balkan_mythology" title="Paleo-Balkan mythology">Paleo-Balkan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albanian_folk_beliefs" class="mw-redirect" title="Albanian folk beliefs">Albanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dacian_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Dacian mythology">Dacian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illyrian_religion" title="Illyrian religion">Illyrian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thracian_religion" title="Thracian religion">Thracian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-Iranian_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Proto-Indo-Iranian religion">Proto-Indo-Iranian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Iranian_religion" title="Ancient Iranian religion">Iranian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historical_Vedic_religion" title="Historical Vedic religion">Vedic</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basketmaker_III_Era#Culture_and_religion" title="Basketmaker III Era">Ancestral Pueblo</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pueblo_II_Period#Culture_and_religion" title="Pueblo II Period">Pueblo II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pueblo_III_Period#Culture_and_religion" title="Pueblo III Period">Pueblo III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pueblo_IV_Period#Culture_and_religion" title="Pueblo IV Period">Pueblo IV</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rapa_Nui_mythology" title="Rapa Nui mythology">Rapa Nui</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Roman</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cybele" title="Cybele">Cult of Magna Mater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gallo-Roman_religion" title="Gallo-Roman religion">Gallo-Roman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_imperial_cult" title="Roman imperial cult">Imperial cult</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithraism" title="Mithraism">Mithraism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mysteries_of_Isis" title="Mysteries of Isis">Mysteries of Isis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Semitic_religion" title="Ancient Semitic religion">Semitic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canaanite_religion" title="Canaanite religion">Canaanite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Punic_religion" title="Punic religion">Punic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yahwism" title="Yahwism">Yahwism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scythian_religion" title="Scythian religion">Scythian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_paganism" title="Slavic paganism">Slavic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somali_mythology" title="Somali mythology">Somali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tongan_religion" title="Tongan religion">Tongan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urartu#Religion" title="Urartu">Urartu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vainakh_religion" title="Vainakh religion">Vainakh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zapotec_civilization#Religion_and_Myth" title="Zapotec civilization">Zapotec</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Topics" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Topics</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Aspects</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apostasy" title="Apostasy">Apostasy</a> / <a href="/wiki/Religious_disaffiliation" title="Religious disaffiliation">Disaffiliation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_behaviour" title="Religious behaviour">Behaviour</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belief#Religion" title="Belief">Beliefs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Call_to_prayer" title="Call to prayer">Call to prayer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laicism" title="Laicism">Laicism</a> / <a href="/wiki/Laity" title="Laity">Laity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covenant_(religion)" title="Covenant (religion)">Covenant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_conversion" title="Religious conversion">Conversion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deity" title="Deity">Deities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_denomination" title="Religious denomination">Denomination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Entheogen" title="Entheogen">Entheogens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_religion" title="Ethnic religion">Ethnic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faith" title="Faith">Faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fire_worship" title="Fire worship">Fire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Folk_religion" title="Folk religion">Folk religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goddess" title="Goddess">Goddess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_religion" title="Indigenous religion">Indigenous</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meditation" title="Meditation">Meditation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monasticism" title="Monasticism">Monasticism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Monk" title="Monk">Monk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novice" title="Novice">Novice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nun" title="Nun">Nun</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mysticism" title="Mysticism">Mysticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_and_mythology" title="Religion and mythology">Mythology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ordination" title="Ordination">Ordination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orthodoxy" title="Orthodoxy">Orthodoxy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orthopraxy" title="Orthopraxy">Orthopraxy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paganism" title="Paganism">Paganism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer">Prayer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prophecy" title="Prophecy">Prophecy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_experience" title="Religious experience">Religious experience</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ritual" title="Ritual">Ritual</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Liturgy" title="Liturgy">Liturgy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ritual_purification" title="Ritual purification">Purification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacrifice" title="Sacrifice">Sacrifice</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacred_space" title="Sacred space">Sacred space</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sacred_waters" title="Sacred waters">Bodies of water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacred_grove" title="Sacred grove">Groves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacred_mountains" title="Sacred mountains">Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacred_tree" title="Sacred tree">Trees</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">Soul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spirituality" title="Spirituality">Spirituality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supernatural" title="Supernatural">Supernatural</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_symbol" title="Religious symbol">Symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_text" title="Religious text">Text</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_views_on_truth" title="Religious views on truth">Truth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_and_religion" title="Water and religion">Water</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worship" title="Worship">Worship</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Worship_of_heavenly_bodies" title="Worship of heavenly bodies">Astral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nature_worship" title="Nature worship">Nature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Place_of_worship" title="Place of worship">Place</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Theism" title="Theism">Theism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Animism" title="Animism">Animism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deism" title="Deism">Deism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dualism_in_cosmology" title="Dualism in cosmology">Dualism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henotheism" title="Henotheism">Henotheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monotheism" title="Monotheism">Monotheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nontheism" title="Nontheism">Nontheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panentheism" title="Panentheism">Panentheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pantheism" title="Pantheism">Pantheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polytheism" title="Polytheism">Polytheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transtheism" title="Transtheism">Transtheism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Religious_studies" title="Religious studies">Religious<br />studies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anthropology_of_religion" title="Anthropology of religion">Anthropology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cognitive_science_of_religion" title="Cognitive science of religion">Cognitive science</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparative_religion" title="Comparative religion">Comparative</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evolutionary_origin_of_religion" title="Evolutionary origin of religion">Evolutionary origin of religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology_of_religion" title="Evolutionary psychology of religion">Evolutionary psychology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_religion" title="History of religion">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neuroscience_of_religion" title="Neuroscience of religion">Neurotheology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_religion" title="Philosophy of religion">Philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psychology_of_religion" title="Psychology of religion">Psychology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sociology_of_religion" title="Sociology of religion">Sociology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soteriology" title="Soteriology">Soteriology</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Salvation" title="Salvation">Salvation</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">Theology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theories_about_religion" title="Theories about religion">Theories about religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_and_religion" title="Women and religion">Women</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Religion_and_society" title="Category:Religion and society">Religion <br />and society</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religion_and_agriculture" title="Religion and agriculture">Agriculture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_and_business" title="Religion and business">Business</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clericalism" title="Clericalism">Clericalism</a> / <a href="/wiki/Clergy" title="Clergy">Clergy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Monasticism" title="Monasticism">Monasticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ordination" title="Ordination">Ordination</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priest" title="Priest">Priest</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_conversion" title="Religious conversion">Conversion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religious_assimilation" title="Religious assimilation">Assimilation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Missionary" title="Missionary">Missionary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Proselytism" title="Proselytism">Proselytism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Disability_and_religion" title="Disability and religion">Disability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_education" title="Religious education">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_fanaticism" title="Religious fanaticism">Fanaticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_religion" title="Freedom of religion">Freedom</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religious_pluralism" title="Religious pluralism">Pluralism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syncretism" title="Syncretism">Syncretism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toleration" title="Toleration">Toleration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Universalism" title="Universalism">Universalism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fundamentalism" title="Fundamentalism">Fundamentalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Growth_of_religion" title="Growth of religion">Growth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_and_happiness" class="mw-redirect" title="Religion and happiness">Happiness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homosexuality_and_religion" title="Homosexuality and religion">Homosexuality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minority_religion" title="Minority religion">Minorities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_church" title="National church">National church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_country" title="Importance of religion by country">National religiosity levels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_politics" title="Religion in politics">Politics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_religious_populations" title="List of religious populations">Populations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religiocentrism" title="Religiocentrism">Religiocentrism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schism" title="Schism">Schism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Relationship_between_religion_and_science" title="Relationship between religion and science">Science</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_religion" title="State religion">State</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theocracy" title="Theocracy">Theocracy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vegetarianism_and_religion" title="Vegetarianism and religion">Vegetarianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_and_video_games" title="Religion and video games">Video games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_violence" title="Religious violence">Violence</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religious_persecution" title="Religious persecution">Persecution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_terrorism" title="Religious terrorism">Terrorism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_war" title="Religious war">War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sectarian_violence" title="Sectarian violence">Sectarian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wealth_and_religion" title="Wealth and religion">Wealth</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Secularism" title="Secularism">Secularism</a> <br />and <a href="/wiki/Irreligion" title="Irreligion">irreligion</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agnosticism" title="Agnosticism">Agnosticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antireligion" title="Antireligion">Antireligion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">Atheism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Criticism_of_religion" title="Criticism of religion">Criticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Positive_deconstruction" title="Positive deconstruction">Deconstruction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Objectivism" title="Objectivism">Objectivism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secular_humanism" title="Secular humanism">Secular humanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secular_theology" title="Secular theology">Secular theology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secularization" title="Secularization">Secularization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state" title="Separation of church and state">Separation of church and state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual_traditions" title="List of religions and spiritual traditions">Unaffiliated</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Overviews<br />and <a href="/wiki/Category:Religion-related_lists" title="Category:Religion-related lists">lists</a></div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Table_of_prophets_of_Abrahamic_religions" title="Table of prophets of Abrahamic religions">Abrahamic prophets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_been_considered_deities" title="List of people who have been considered deities">Deification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_deities" title="Lists of deities">Deities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_founders_of_religious_traditions" title="List of founders of religious traditions">Founders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Index_of_religion-related_articles" title="Index of religion-related articles">Index</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_largest_peaceful_gatherings" title="List of largest peaceful gatherings">Mass gatherings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Names_of_God" title="Names of God">Names of God</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_new_religious_movements" title="List of new religious movements">New religious movements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_religious_organizations" title="List of religious organizations">Organizations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_religion" title="Outline of religion">Outline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual_traditions" title="List of religions and spiritual traditions">Religions and spiritual traditions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religious_studies" title="Religious studies">Scholars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_religion" title="Timeline of religion">Timeline</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Religion_by_country" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Religion by country</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Africa" title="Religion in Africa">Africa</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Algeria" title="Religion in Algeria">Algeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Angola" title="Religion in Angola">Angola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Benin" title="Religion in Benin">Benin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Botswana" title="Religion in Botswana">Botswana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Burkina_Faso" title="Religion in Burkina Faso">Burkina Faso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Burundi" title="Religion in Burundi">Burundi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Cameroon" title="Religion in Cameroon">Cameroon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Cape_Verde" title="Religion in Cape Verde">Cape Verde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Central_African_Republic" title="Religion in the Central African Republic">Central African Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Chad" title="Religion in Chad">Chad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Comoros" title="Religion in the Comoros">Comoros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Religion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Religion in the Republic of the Congo">Republic of the Congo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Djibouti" class="mw-redirect" title="Religion in Djibouti">Djibouti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Egypt" title="Religion in Egypt">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Equatorial_Guinea" title="Religion in Equatorial Guinea">Equatorial Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Eritrea" title="Religion in Eritrea">Eritrea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Eswatini" title="Religion in Eswatini">Eswatini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Ethiopia" title="Religion in Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Gabon" title="Religion in Gabon">Gabon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_the_Gambia" title="Religion in the Gambia">Gambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Ghana" title="Religion in Ghana">Ghana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Guinea" title="Religion in Guinea">Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Guinea-Bissau" title="Religion in Guinea-Bissau">Guinea-Bissau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Ivory_Coast" title="Religion in Ivory Coast">Ivory Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Kenya" title="Religion in Kenya">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Lesotho" title="Religion in Lesotho">Lesotho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Liberia" title="Religion in Liberia">Liberia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Libya" title="Religion in Libya">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Madagascar" title="Religion in Madagascar">Madagascar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Malawi" title="Religion in Malawi">Malawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mali" title="Religion in Mali">Mali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mauritania" title="Religion in Mauritania">Mauritania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mauritius" title="Religion in Mauritius">Mauritius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Morocco" title="Religion in Morocco">Morocco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Mozambique" title="Religion in Mozambique">Mozambique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Namibia" title="Religion in Namibia">Namibia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Niger" title="Religion in Niger">Niger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Nigeria" title="Religion in Nigeria">Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Rwanda" title="Religion in Rwanda">Rwanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe" title="Religion in São Tomé and Príncipe">São Tomé and Príncipe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Senegal" title="Religion in Senegal">Senegal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Seychelles" title="Religion in Seychelles">Seychelles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Sierra_Leone" title="Religion in Sierra Leone">Sierra Leone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Somalia" title="Religion in Somalia">Somalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_South_Africa" title="Religion in South Africa">South Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_South_Sudan" title="Religion in South Sudan">South Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Sudan" title="Religion in Sudan">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Tanzania" title="Religion in Tanzania">Tanzania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Togo" title="Religion in Togo">Togo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Tunisia" title="Religion in Tunisia">Tunisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Uganda" title="Religion in Uganda">Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Zambia" title="Religion in Zambia">Zambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Zimbabwe" title="Religion in Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Asia" title="Religion in Asia">Asia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Afghanistan" title="Religion in Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Armenia" title="Religion in Armenia">Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Azerbaijan" title="Religion in Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Bahrain" title="Religion in Bahrain">Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Bangladesh" title="Religion in Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Bhutan" title="Religion in Bhutan">Bhutan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Brunei" title="Religion in Brunei">Brunei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Cambodia" title="Religion in Cambodia">Cambodia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_China" title="Religion in China">China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Cyprus" title="Religion in Cyprus">Cyprus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_East_Timor" title="Religion in East Timor">East Timor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Georgia_(country)" title="Religion in Georgia (country)">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Hong_Kong" title="Religion in Hong Kong">Hong Kong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_India" title="Religion in India">India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Indonesia" title="Religion in Indonesia">Indonesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Iran" title="Religion in Iran">Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Iraq" title="Religion in Iraq">Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Israel" title="Religion in Israel">Israel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Japan" title="Religion in Japan">Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Jordan" title="Religion in Jordan">Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Kazakhstan" title="Religion in Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Korea" title="Religion in Korea">Korea</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_North_Korea" title="Religion in North Korea">North Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_South_Korea" title="Religion in South Korea">South Korea</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Kuwait" title="Religion in Kuwait">Kuwait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Kyrgyzstan" title="Religion in Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Laos" title="Religion in Laos">Laos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Lebanon" title="Religion in Lebanon">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Macau" title="Religion in Macau">Macau</a></li> <li><a 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title="Sarnaism">Sarnaism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_folk_religion" title="Vietnamese folk religion">Vietnamese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mythology_of_Indonesia" title="Mythology of Indonesia">Indonesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parmalim" title="Parmalim">Parmalim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaharingan" title="Kaharingan">Kaharingan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Momolianism" class="mw-redirect" title="Momolianism">Momolianism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kejaw%C3%A8n" title="Kejawèn">Kejawèn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaysian_folk_religion" title="Malaysian folk religion">Malay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_Philippine_folk_religions" title="Indigenous Philippine folk religions">Philippine</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_religious_beliefs_of_the_Tagalog_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Indigenous religious beliefs of the Tagalog people">Tagalog</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marapu" title="Marapu">Marapu</a></li> <li><a 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shamanism">Korean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miao_folk_religion" title="Miao folk religion">Miao</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tai_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tai religion (page does not exist)">Tai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ahom_religion" title="Ahom religion">Ahom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mo_(religion)" title="Mo (religion)">Mo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tai_folk_religion" title="Tai folk religion">Satsana Phi</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tibeto-Burman_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tibeto-Burman religion (page does not exist)">Tibeto-Burmese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bathouism" title="Bathouism">Bathouism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benzhuism" title="Benzhuism">Benzhuism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bimoism" title="Bimoism">Bimoism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bon" title="Bon">Bon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mun_(religion)" title="Mun (religion)">Bongthingism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burmese_folk_religion" title="Burmese folk religion">Burmese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donyi-Polo" title="Donyi-Polo">Donyi-Polo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heraka" class="mw-redirect" title="Heraka">Heraka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirat_Mundhum" title="Kirat Mundhum">Kiratism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qiang_folk_religion" title="Qiang folk religion">Qiang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sanamahism" title="Sanamahism">Sanamahism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="European" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">European</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albanian_folk_beliefs" class="mw-redirect" title="Albanian folk beliefs">Albanian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anatolian_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anatolian religion (page does not exist)">Anatolian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hittite_mythology_and_religion" title="Hittite mythology and religion">Hittite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lydian_religion" title="Lydian religion">Lydian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Phrygian_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Phrygian religion (page does not exist)">Phrygian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_mythology" title="Armenian mythology">Armenian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_mythology" title="Baltic mythology">Baltic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Prussian_mythology" title="Prussian mythology">Old Prussian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latvian_mythology" title="Latvian mythology">Latvian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_mythology" title="Lithuanian mythology">Lithuanian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basque_mythology" title="Basque mythology">Basque</a></li> <li>Caucasian <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Circassian_paganism" title="Circassian paganism">Circassian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgian_mythology" title="Georgian mythology">Georgian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ossetian_mythology" title="Ossetian mythology">Ossetian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vainakh_religion" title="Vainakh religion">Vainakh</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celtic_polytheism" class="mw-redirect" title="Celtic polytheism">Celtic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Irish_mythology" title="Irish mythology">Irish</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etruscan_religion" title="Etruscan religion">Etruscan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Germanic_paganism" title="Germanic paganism">Germanic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_paganism" title="Anglo-Saxon paganism">Anglo-Saxon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankish_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Frankish mythology">Frankish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_paganism" title="Gothic paganism">Gothic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Norse_religion" title="Old Norse religion">Norse</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_religion" title="Ancient Greek religion">Greek</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_religion" title="Hellenistic religion">Hellenistic religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_hero_cult" title="Greek hero cult">Hero cult</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries" title="Greco-Roman mysteries">Sacred mysteries</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries" title="Eleusinian Mysteries">Eleusinian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orphism_(religion)" title="Orphism (religion)">Orphic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samothrace_temple_complex" title="Samothrace temple complex">Samothracian</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iberian_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iberian religion (page does not exist)">Iberian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cantabrian_mythology" title="Cantabrian mythology">Cantabrian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Castro_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Castro religion (page does not exist)">Castro</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gallaecian_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gallaecian religion (page does not exist)">Gallaecian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lusitanian_mythology" title="Lusitanian mythology">Lusitanian</a></li></ul></li> <li>Italic <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Camunni_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Camunni religion (page does not exist)">Camunnian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ligures_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ligures religion (page does not exist)">Ligurian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Umbri_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Umbri religion (page does not exist)">Umbrian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minoan_religion" title="Minoan religion">Minoan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nuragic_religion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nuragic religion (page does not exist)">Nuragic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paleo-Balkan_mythology" title="Paleo-Balkan mythology">Paleo-Balkan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dacian_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Dacian religion">Dacian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illyrian_religion" title="Illyrian religion">Illyrian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thracian_religion" title="Thracian religion">Thracian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Roman</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cybele" title="Cybele">Cybele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gallo-Roman_religion" title="Gallo-Roman religion">Gallo-Roman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_imperial_cult" title="Roman imperial cult">Imperial cult</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mithraism" title="Mithraism">Mithraism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mysteries_of_Isis" title="Mysteries of Isis">Mysteries of Isis</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scythian_religion" title="Scythian religion">Scythian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_paganism" title="Slavic paganism">Slavic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uralic_languages" title="Uralic languages">Uralic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_Finnic_paganism" title="Baltic Finnic paganism">Baltic Finnic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_mythology" title="Hungarian mythology">Hungarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mari_Native_Religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Mari Native Religion">Mari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sami_shamanism" class="mw-redirect" title="Sami shamanism">Sami</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Middle-Eastern_and_North_African" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Middle-Eastern and North African</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religions_of_the_ancient_Near_East" title="Religions of the ancient Near East">Ancient Near Eastern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hurrian_religion" title="Hurrian religion">Hurrian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion" title="Ancient Egyptian religion">Egyptian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kushite_religion" title="Kushite religion">Nubian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Mesopotamian_religion" title="Ancient Mesopotamian religion">Mesopotamian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Babylonian_religion" title="Babylonian religion">Babylonian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sumerian_religion" title="Sumerian religion">Sumerian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Semitic_religion" title="Ancient Semitic religion">Semitic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_pre-Islamic_Arabia" title="Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia">Arabian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canaanite_religion" title="Canaanite religion">Canaanite</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_religions" title="Iranian religions">Iranian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Persian_mythology" title="Persian mythology">Persian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Berber_religion" title="Traditional Berber religion">Berber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Punic_religion" title="Punic religion">Punic</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Oceanian_and_Pacific_Islander" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Oceanian and Pacific Islander</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_religion_and_mythology" title="Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology">Australian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melanesian_mythology" title="Melanesian mythology">Melanesian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Micronesian_mythology" title="Micronesian mythology">Micronesian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nauruan_indigenous_religion" title="Nauruan indigenous religion">Nauruan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Papuan_mythology" title="Papuan mythology">Papuan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polynesian_mythology" title="Polynesian mythology">Polynesian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cook_Islands_mythology" title="Cook Islands mythology">Cook Islander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_religion" title="Hawaiian religion">Hawaiian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_of_M%C4%81ori_people" title="Religion of Māori people">Māori</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rapa_Nui_mythology" title="Rapa Nui mythology">Rapa Nui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahiti_and_Society_Islands_mythology" title="Tahiti and Society Islands mythology">Tahitian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tongan_religion" title="Tongan religion">Tongan</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Sub-Saharan_African" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Traditional_African_religions" title="Traditional African religions">Sub-Saharan African</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Akan_religion" title="Akan religion">Akan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bantu_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Bantu mythology">Bantu</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bushongo_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Bushongo mythology">Bushongo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kongo_religion" title="Kongo religion">Kongo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lozi_mythology" title="Lozi mythology">Lozi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zulu_traditional_religion" title="Zulu traditional religion">Zulu</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dahomean_religion" title="Dahomean religion">Dahomean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dinka_religion" title="Dinka religion">Dinka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Efik_mythology" title="Efik mythology">Efik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hausa_animism" title="Hausa animism">Hausa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lugbara_mythology" title="Lugbara mythology">Lugbara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maasai_mythology" class="mw-redirect" title="Maasai mythology">Maasai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malagasy_mythology" title="Malagasy mythology">Malagasy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mbuti_mythology" title="Mbuti mythology">Mbuti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odinani" class="mw-redirect" title="Odinani">Odinani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_religion" title="San religion">San</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serer_religion" title="Serer religion">Serer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somali_mythology" title="Somali mythology">Somali</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_modern_pagan_movements" title="List of modern pagan movements">Modern pagan<br />movements</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><div class="navbox-styles"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-label="Navbox" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Ethnic" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_religion" title="Ethnic religion">Ethnic</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>African <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ausar_Auset_Society" title="Ausar Auset Society">Ausar Auset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Godianism" title="Godianism">Godianism</a></li></ul></li> <li>American <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mexicayotl" title="Mexicayotl">Mexicayotl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_American_Church" title="Native American Church">Native American Church</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Native_Faith" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenian Native Faith">Armenian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltic_neopaganism" title="Baltic neopaganism">Baltic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dievtur%C4%ABba" title="Dievturība">Dievturība</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romuva_(religion)" title="Romuva (religion)">Romuva</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caucasian_neopaganism" title="Caucasian neopaganism">Caucasian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abkhaz_neopaganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Abkhaz neopaganism">Abkhaz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adyghe_Habze" class="mw-redirect" title="Adyghe Habze">Adyghe Habze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uatsdin" class="mw-redirect" title="Uatsdin">Uatsdin</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celtic_Reconstructionist_Paganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism">Celtic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Guanche_People" title="Church of the Guanche People">Canarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heathenry_(new_religious_movement)" title="Heathenry (new religious movement)">Heathenry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellenism_(religion)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenism (religion)">Hellenism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindu_reform_movements" title="Hindu reform movements">Hindu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Polytheistic_Reconstructionism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Polytheistic Reconstructionism">Italo-Roman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kemetism" title="Kemetism">Kemetism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zalmoxianism" title="Zalmoxianism">Zalmoxianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romani_folklore" title="Romani folklore">Romani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Semitic_neopaganism" title="Semitic neopaganism">Semitic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_Native_Faith" title="Slavic Native Faith">Slavic</a></li> <li>Turko-Mongolic <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Burkhanism" title="Burkhanism">Burkhanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vattisen_Yaly" title="Vattisen Yaly">Vattisen Yaly</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uralic_neopaganism" title="Uralic neopaganism">Uralic</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Estonian_neopaganism" title="Estonian neopaganism">Estonian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finnish_neopaganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Finnish neopaganism">Finnish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Native_Faith" title="Hungarian Native Faith">Hungarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mordvin_Native_Religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Mordvin Native Religion">Mordvin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udmurt_Vos" title="Udmurt Vos">Udmurt Vos</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Other" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Other</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Neopagan_witchcraft" title="Neopagan witchcraft">Neopagan witchcraft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cochrane%27s_Craft" title="Cochrane's Craft">Cochrane's Craft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feri_Tradition" title="Feri Tradition">Feri Tradition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stregheria" title="Stregheria">Stregheria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wicca" title="Wicca">Wicca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Druidry_(modern)" title="Druidry (modern)">Druidry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Congress_of_Ethnic_Religions" title="European Congress of Ethnic Religions">European Congress of Ethnic 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