Topic:

1) An overview of literatures relating to the Roman religion; ancient sources; a basic owerview of
development of the Roman religion.
2) Religious power of Roman officials
3) Influence of divination and augury on the Roman state; pontifices, augures, Sibil´s book and
divination
4) Virgines Vestalis, the Eternal fire and civitas
5) The Roman calendar and influece of pontifices on politics
6) The Roman religion and laws; fas, nefas, ius, lex, sacrilegium
7) The Roman religion and wars; fetiales; declaration of war and peace; Roman festivals relating to
war and army
8) The patrician-plebeian reconciliation in the religious field
9) The state cult and other festivals
10) The Roman religion and its relationship to arts and architecture
11) Roles of the Roman religion in family life
12) Augustus´s effor of old traditional religion renaissance


Texts:

1) Dionysios of Halikarnassos II 64-73

2) Non

3) Livius I 6-7; Livius I 17-18

4) PARKER, H. N.: Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or the Chastity of Women and the Safety of Roman
State. In: The American Journal of Philology 125, n. 4, 2005, p. 563 – 601.

5) Macrobius, Saturnalia I 12 - 13

6) TELLEGEN-COUPERUS, O.: Pontiff, preator and iurisdictio in the Roman republic. In: The Legal
History Review 74, 2006, p. 31 – 44.

7) Livius I 32; Dionysios of Halikarnassos II 72

8) Livius X 6-0

9) SCULLARD, H. H.: Festivals and Ceremonies of the RomanRepublic. London 1981; Ovidius Fasti

10) Pictures

11) Non

12) Non