Concept
Religion in ancient Rome
Overview
form of Indo-European polytheism practised in the Roman civilization
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This all-embracing and all-absorbing power of the church lasted about a thousand years and ended with the Reformation, though it had begun to decline some two centuries earlier. For this condition of things the Roman empire had prepared the way. It was the prototype to which, in part unconsciously and in part consciously, ecclesiastical authority was made to conform.
Charles William Super, Between Heathenism and Christianity
Close in meaning to Religion in ancient Rome; the term itself is not named.
The genesis of Polytheism out of Fetishism, by the successive migrations of the race of god-kings to the other world--a genesis illustrated in the Greek mythology, alike by the precise genealogy of the deities, and by the specifically asserted apotheosis of the later ones--tends further to bear it out. It explains the fact that in the old creeds, as in the still extant creed of the Otaheitans, every family has its…
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
Close in meaning to Religion in ancient Rome; the term itself is not named.
The period of their zenith and, more particularly, the period in which they possessed a fair degree of stability, coincided absolutely with the time at which deity myth was at its height. In the age of a waning deity belief, it was only the influence of numerous elements of secular culture, combined with a high degree of adaptability to the conditions of individual States, such as the Roman mind…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Religion in ancient Rome; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Religion in ancient Rome
Related ideas
- Eusebius
- Aphrodite
- Athena
- Germany
- Arianism
- Hadrian
- Ambrose
- Expansionism
- Atheism
- Gemistos Plethon
- Judaism
- Julius Caesar
- Julian (emperor)
- Separation of church and state
- Apuleius
- Livy
- Latin literature
- Mediterranean Sea
- Polytheism
- Stoicism
- Monism
- Monotheism
- Pompeii
- Nero
Place in the tradition
Part of Neoplatonism.