RLS405 Roman Religions

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2024
Rozsah
2/0. 3 kr. Ukončení: k.
Vyučováno synchronně online
Vyučující
Krešimir Vuković, Dr. phil. (přednášející)
doc. Mgr. Katarina Petrovićová, Ph.D. (cvičící)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Katarina Petrovićová, Ph.D.
Ústav klasických studií – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Jitka Erlebachová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Ústav klasických studií – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
Út 1. 10. až Pá 10. 1. St 15:50–16:30 Virtuální místnost, kromě Po 18. 11. až Ne 24. 11.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 30 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 20/30, pouze zareg.: 0/30, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/30
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
Many aspects of our everyday life can be traced to ancient Roman religions. The calendar we use is a modified version of the religious calendar of ancient Rome and retains the names of many Roman deities and festivals. Religion permeated all aspects of life in the ancient city, from politics and family life to games and relaxation. Caesar was a great general and skilful politician but he was first and foremost pontifex maximus, the chief priest of the Roman state religion. The Romans worshiped a variety of deities, from native heroes to imported gods. Emperors were gradually incorporated in the state cult and their worship entailed respect for the Roman Empire by all of its loyal subjects. In time the mysteries or cults that originated in eastern Mediterranean gained more followers and one of them proved more resilient than others, sprouting the seeds of what we now call Christianity.
Výstupy z učení
After the completion of the course, students will be able to:
- characterise the role of religion in Romans' life;
- describe the Roman calendar, different festivities, and religious ceremonies;
- characterise alien cults coming to Rome;
- describe the rise of Christianism and the religious situation in the fourth century CE.
Osnova
  • 1. What is religion? Basic concepts: pax deorum, sacrifice, priestly colleges
  • 2. The Roman Calendar and Festivals
  • 3. Household Gods: Lares and Penates
  • 4. Divine Nature and Culture
  • 5. Omens, Prodigies, and Auspices
  • 6. Alien Gods and Cults
  • 7. Bacchanalia and Religious Change
  • 8. Colloquium (Mid-Term Exam) Sacred Spaces and Topography
  • 9. Religion or Philosophy? Cicero, Stoics and Academics
  • 10. The Cult of the Emperors
  • 11. The Mysteries: Mithras, Isis, and Cybele
  • 12. The Rise of Christianity and its manifold forms
  • 13. Sol Invictus, henotheism, and magic
  • 14. The Turbulent Fourth Century: Julian the Rebel and Saint Augustine
Literatura
    doporučená literatura
  • BROWN, Peter. Through the eye of a needle : wealth, the fall of Rome, and the making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, xxx, 759. ISBN 9780691161778. info
  • The Cambridge companion to the Roman republic. Edited by Harriet I. Flower. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, xv, 405. ISBN 9780521807944. info
  • SCHEID, John. An introduction to Roman religion. Translated by Janet Lloyd. 1st pub. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003, 232 s. ISBN 0253216605. info
  • GRADEL, Ittai. Emperor worship and Roman religion. Oxford: Clarendon, 2002, xviii, 408. ISBN 9780199275489. info
    neurčeno
  • BOWDEN, Hugh. Mystery cults of the ancient world. First published. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010, 256 stran. ISBN 9780691146386. info
Výukové metody
Přednášky, diskuse.
Metody hodnocení
Seminar paper, class activity (70% presence) and mid-term written exam.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
POZOR! Výuka začíná až první týden v říjnu! Vyučující: Krešimir Vuković Literature: (sorted by relevance)
J. Scheid, Introduction to Roman Religion. Edinburgh, 2003.
J. Rüpke, Religion of the Romans. Cambridge, 2007.
M. Beard, J.A. North, S.R.F. Price Religions of Rome, Cambridge, 1996.
J. Rüpke, “Roman Religion” in The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic (Ed. Harriet I. Flower), Cambridge, 2004, pp. 179-196.
I. Gradel, Emperor Worship and Roman Religion, Oxford, 2004.
P. Brown, Through the Eye of a Needle, Princeton, 2013.
H. Chadwick, The Early Church, Penguin Revised Edition, London, 1993.
K. Vuković, Wolves of Rome: The Lupercalia from Roman and Comparative Perspectives. Berlin, 2022.
S. Satterfield, “Prodigies, the Pax deum and the Ira deum,” Classical Journal 110.4, (2015), 431-445.
H. Bowden, Mystery Cults of the Ancient World, Princeton, 2010.
J.A. North, “Prophet and Text in the Third Century BC.” In Religion in Archaic and Republican Rome and Italy: Evidence and Experience, (ed. E. Bispham and C.J. Smith), pp. 92–107. Edinburgh, 2000.
F. Santangelo,“Pax Deorum and Pontiffs.” In Priests and State in the Roman World, edited by J. H. Richardson and F. Santangelo, pp. 161–86. Stuttgart, 2011.
R. Beck, The religion of the Mithras cult in the Roman Empire: mysteries of the unconquered sun. Oxford, 2006. A. Sofroniew, Household Gods, Los Angeles, 2015
C. Edwards, Writing Rome, Cambridge, 1996, chapter 1: ‘the City of Memories’
N.T. De Grummond, Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend, Philadelphia, 2006
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Studijní materiály
Výuka začíná až první týden v říjnu. Lectures start in the first week of October. Teacher: Krešimir Vuković.
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