Roman religion, gods and priests



Lares, Penates, Manes, Lemures, Genii
}Lares – guardian deities, their origin is uncertain
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}Penates – house deities to whom Romans sacrificed every day
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}Manes – chtonic dieties often relating to death
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}Lemures – spirits of restless deads
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}Genii – general dieties, as angels (Christianity)

Gods – Iuppiter, Mars and Quirinus
}Origin divine trinity
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}Functional gods
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}Flamines and ordo sacerdotum

Gods – Iuppiter, Iuno and Minerva
}Capitolian divine trinity
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}Tarquinian dynasty
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}Greek influence

Gods – Ceres, Liber and Libera
}496 BC – a new temple at the foot of Aventine
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}Fertility gods
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}Plebeian religion

Gods – the others
}Ianus
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}Veseta
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}Dioskures
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}Apollon
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}Merkur

Oriental gods
}Kybele
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}Isis
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}Mithra
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}Jesus Christ

Priesthoods
}Ordo sacerdotum
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}Rex sacrorum
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}Flamines
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}Pontifices
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}Virgines Vestalis
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}Augures

Etruscan influence
}Lack of sources
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}Eastern origin?
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}Greek influence
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}Vegonia and Tages
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}Libri fulgurales, libri rituales, libri haruspicini

Laws relating to the religion
}Lex Ogulnia de auguribus et pontificibus
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}Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus
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Mythology
}Historization of myths
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}Greek influence
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}Vergilius and Aenneis