TY - BOOK ID - 5537915 TI - Religion in republican Rome : rationalization and ritual change PY - 2012 SN - 9780812243949 0812243943 0812206576 1283898144 PB - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, DB - UniCat KW - Religion and culture KW - Religion et culture KW - Rome KW - Religion. KW - Religious life and customs. KW - Religion KW - Vie religieuse KW - Religious life and customs KW - Culture and religion KW - Culture KW - Religion and culture - Rome KW - Rome - Religion KW - Rome - Religious life and customs KW - Ancient Studies. KW - Classics. KW - Religious Studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5537915 AB - Roman religion as we know it is largely the product of the middle and late republic, the period falling roughly between the victory of Rome over its Latin allies in 338 B.C.E. and the attempt of the Italian peoples in the Social War to stop Roman domination, resulting in the victory of Rome over all of Italy in 89 B.C.E. This period witnessed the expansion and elaboration of large public rituals such as the games and the triumph as well as significant changes to Roman intellectual life, including the emergence of new media like the written calendar and new genres such as law, antiquarian writing, and philosophical discourse. In Religion in Republican Rome Jörg Rüpke argues that religious change in the period is best understood as a process of rationalization: rules and principles were abstracted from practice, then made the object of a specialized discourse with its own rules of argument and institutional loci. Thus codified and elaborated, these then guided future conduct and elaboration. Rüpke concentrates on figures both famous and less well known, including Gnaeus Flavius, Ennius, Accius, Varro, Cicero, and Julius Caesar. He contextualizes the development of rational argument about religion and antiquarian systematization of religious practices with respect to two complex processes: Roman expansion in its manifold dimensions on the one hand and cultural exchange between Greece and Rome on the other. ER -