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The Religious Experience of the Roman People from the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus

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The Religious Experience of the Roman People from the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
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Preface
Lecture I | Introductory
Lecture II | On the Threshold of Religion: Survivals
Lecture III | On the Threshold of Religion: Magic
Lecture IV | The Religion of the Family
Lecture V | The Calendar of Numa
Lecture VI | The Divine Objects of Worship
Lecture VII | The Deities of the Earliest Religion: General Characteristics
Lecture VIII | Ritual of the Ius Divinum
Lecture IX | Ritual (continued)
Lecture X | The First Arrival of New Cults in Rome
Lecture XI | Contact of the Old and New in Religion
Lecture XII | The Pontifices and the Secularisation of Religion
Lecture XIII | The Augurs and the Art of Divination
Lecture XIV | The Hannibalic War
Lecture XV | After the Hannibalic War
Lecture XVI | Greek Philosophy and Roman Religion
Lecture XVII | Mysticism—Ideas of a Future Life
Lecture XVIII | Religious Feeling in the Poems of Virgil
Lecture XIX | The Augustan Revival
Lecture XX | Conclusion
Appendix I | On the Use of Huts or Booths in Religious Ritual
Appendix II | Prof. Deubner’s Theory of the Lupercalia
St. Martin's Street, London
Macmillan and Co. Limited
1911

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