Greco-Roman Archaeology

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

Daniel is looking slightly ruffled this morning. "Welcome back, I hope you all had a good Thanksgiving break. Thank you for your essays... I will get the grades back to you hopefully next week.

Now, today,

Like the Roman government, the early Roman religion grew up with the union of the various settlements into one community. When the different tribes came together into the Roman city, they selected Jupiter and Mars as their common gods to be worshiped upon the Capitoline hill, together with Quirinus on the Quirinal. As the fire was kept burning on the family hearth, so the sacred fire of the city was kept burning in the temple of Vesta. The Roman people were filled with religious ideas. All power, from that of the household father to that of the king, was believed to come from above. In peace and in war they lived in the presence of the gods, and sought to remember them by worship and festivals.

So. Roman deities and religion. What can you tell me?"

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Duce snorts, "They stole them all from the ancient Greeks. The entire Roman civilization cannibalized on others; Etruscan, Greek, and later, Christian."

[the-ascended.livejournal.com]

"They drew from the original cultures Rome was based on, yes. The earliest Roman deities were either invented by themselves, or their origin comes from Latin or Sabine pantheon," Daniel agreed. "Some archaeologists would argue that one of the greatness of Rome was its ability to change, adapt or absorb foreign ideas, customs and practices."

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Phoebe signs in and starts taking notes on the lecture.

[pyramid-is-life.livejournal.com]

Kara signs in and sits down. She takes out her notebook, prepared to doodle her way through class, but her attetion is caught by the subject of Roman religion. It is remarkably similar to Colonial religion.

She sits though class, fascinated.