The religion of the people of Rome in the first centuries of the city's history has long been a topic of interest for scholars, but it has been investigated primarily through literary evidence recorded in the first century BC and later, many centuries after an urban community first began to dev...

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Main Author:	Colantoni, Elizabeth (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London [u.a.] Routledge 2013
Series:	Routledge studies in archaeology
Summary:	The religion of the people of Rome in the first centuries of the city's history has long been a topic of interest for scholars, but it has been investigated primarily through literary evidence recorded in the first century BC and later, many centuries after an urban community first began to develop in Rome in the eighth century BC. The contemporary archaeological data from the eighth, seventh, and sixth centuries BC have been taken into account only sporadically, with the result that most scholarship supposedly focused on early Roman religion instead reproduces later Roman ideas about the origins and development of Roman religion-ideas that were often colored by the standards and principles of later Romans, supported by their own conjecture rather than by factual evidence
Physical Description:	208 S.