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Roman Religion 1910–1960

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

H. J. Rose
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When, in 1911, the first volume of JRS appeared it contained among other matter an article by W. Warde Fowler on ‘The Original Meaning of the word Sacer’. This was later (1920) reprinted in Roman Essays and Interpretations, 15–24, and is characteristic of its author, not only because of its keen insight into Roman ways of thought and full acquaintance with the relevant passages in Latin authors, but in its cautious and moderate use of the Comparative Method in dealing with the history of an ancient and imperfectly known religion. A scrap of Polynesian information on the meaning of ‘tabu’ was got from R. R. Marett, whose Threshold of Religion was then a new book (1909), and whom Warde Fowler knew and appreciated. About this time, Fowler, who was meditating an elaborate edition of Plutarch, a project which his failing sight compelled him to drop, passed on to me some notes on the Roman Questions (see below, p. 163), a typical piece of readiness to help and advise a young scholar. So far as his contributions to Roman religion went, the first two decades of this century were his flowering-time. Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic had appeared in 1899; his Gifford Lectures of 1909–10 appeared in book form (The Religious Experience of the Roman People) just in time to have a cordial and appreciative review from E. R. Bevan in the first number of JRS.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 1-2 , November 1960 , pp. 161 - 172
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Copyright © H. J. Rose 1960. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 Virgil's ‘Gathering of the Clans’ in 1916, Aeneas the Site of Rome in 1917 and 1918, and in 1919, The Death of Turnus, with its dedication to the memory of Jesse Benedict Carter.

2 A quite new work, not just a revised edition, has been prepared by Kurt Latte and is now in the press.

3 Rohde's version of animism was successfully challenged by W. F. Otto, Die Manen (1923); see also F. Bönier, Ahnenkult u. Ahnenglaube im alten Rom (1943).

4 See further J. Carcopino, La basilique pythagoricienne de la Porte Majeure (1927) and bibliography there given. For another view cf. Wilamowitz, Der Glaube der Hellenen II (1932), 446.

5 Now reprinted in his Aspects mystiques de la Rome païenne (Paris, 1942).

6 See also her dissertation The Cults of Ostia (Bryn Mawr, 1912Google Scholar), and further monographs by Gordon, A. E., The Cults of Aricia (Berkeley, 1934Google Scholar), and Evans, Elizabeth C., The Cults of the Sabine Territory (Rome, 1939Google Scholar).

7 History of Rome, Bk. I, chap, II (vol. I, p. 10 of the English translation of 1913).

8 For other fragments of calendars, see the report by O. Leuze in Bursian's Jahresber. Bd. 227 (1930), 97 ff.

9 This forms part of the publication ӏΧΘΥΣ, issued by Dölger in five volumes from 1922 onwards. See also his Antike und Christentum (Minister) from 1929 onwards and the volume Pisciculi presented to him in 1939. Partly on Dölger's initiative rests Klauser, Reallexikon zur Antike und Christentum with many valuable articles, of which four volumes have already appeared.

10 The fragments of the Arvals published since Henzen have been collected by Pasoli Acta Fratrum Arvalium (Bologna, 1950).

11 See also E. Tabeling, Mater Larum (1932).

12 In Archiv Rel. Wiss. XXIII, reprinted in his Opuscula Selecta, two volumes (1951), which contains other important contributions on ancient religion.

13 See further, Nock, Harv. Theol. Rev. XXV (1932), 321 ff.

14 See also Koch in P-W VIIIA, 1732 ff.

15 Cf. McDonald, A. H. in JRS XXXIV (1944). 26 ff.Google Scholar, with bibliography in nn. 116 ff. See also Méautis in Rev. Ét. Anc. XLII (1940), 476 ff., Tondriau, Aegyptus XXVI (1946), 84 ff., Jeanmaire, Dionysus 453 ff.; A. Bruhl, Liber Pater 82 ff.; G. Tarditi, La Parola del Passato X (1954), 265 ff.

16 On Made esto see the controversy between Rose and Skutsch (CQ XXXII (1938), 220 ff.; XXXVI (1942), 15 ff.) on the one hand and Palmer (CQ XXXII (1938), 57 ff.; XXXV (1941), 52 ff.) on the other; cf. also E. J. Tonkes, Mnem. ser. 4, II, 1949, 63 ff.

17 Riv. di Fil., 1953, 259.

18 See now Bömer's edition of the Fasti, vols. I, II (1957–58) with bibliographical references and commentary.

19 Chapoutbier, Fernand, Les Dioscures au service d'une déesse, Paris, 1935Google Scholar.

20 For further criticism of Altheim's views see e.g. Wilamowitz, Der Glaube der Hellenen II, 329 ff.; Deubner in Archiv Rel. Wiss. XXXIII (1936), 107 ff.

21 Altheim's reply is to be found in his Porphyrios u. Empedokles 61 ff.

22 CQ XXVII (1933), 172 ff.; Harv. Theol. Rev. XXVIII (1935), 5 ff., and XXIX (1936), 107 ff.; The Virtues of a Roman Emperor (Brit. Acad. Proc. 1937); PBSR XV (1939).

23 Hermes LXIII (1928), 16 ff.; Class. Phil, XXIV (1929), 133 and XXVII (1932), 43 ff., 317 ff.; TAPA LX (1929), 117 ff., LXII (1931), 101 ff.; ‘Greek and Roman Honorific Months’ (Yale Cl. Stud, II, 201 ff.); The Imperial Cult under the Flavians (Stuttgart, 1936); Röm. Mitt. L (1938), 225 ff.

24 Σύνναος Θεός in Harv. St. in Cl. Philol. XLI (1930); Mél. Bidez. (1934), 627; JRS XXXVII (1947), 102 ff.; ‘Soter and Euergetes’ in the F. C. Evans ‘Festschrift’ (1951).

25 Röm. Mitt, XLIX (1934), 1 ff.; L (1935), 1 ff.; Mus. Helvet. VII (1950), 1 ff.; VIII (1951), 190 ff.; IX (1952), 204 ff.; X (1953), 103 ff.; XI (1954), 133 ff.

26 Recherches sur le culte impérial (Bucarest, c. 1939).

27 Symbolae Osloenses X (1931), 31 ff.; XI (1932), 11 ff.; XV (1936), 111 ff.

28 La religion romaine à l'apogée de l'Empire (Paris, 1955).

29 Mél. d'arch. et d'hist. XLVII (1930), 138 ff.; XLVIII (1931), 75 ff.; XLIX (1932), 61 ff.; LIII (1936), 37 ff.; and Rev. hist. 171 (1933), 1 ff.

30 Charisma II (1960).

31 See further, AJP LVII (1937), 185.

32 But cf. Devoto's edition of the Tabulae Iguvinae Iguvium (1937); J. W. Poultney, The Bronze Tablets of Iguvium(1959).

33 ‘The Wiro Sky-God’, in Custom is King (Oxford, 1936)Google ScholarPubMed.

34 Pomerium Palatinum, Rome, 1939Google Scholar; Les dieux des Romains, Paris, Presses Universitaires, 1942Google Scholar; Regifugium, la fuite du roi, Paris, Adrien Maisonneuve, 1943Google Scholar; Evocatio, Paris, Presses Universitaires, 1947Google Scholar and one or two smaller pieces.

35 See also on the Fourth Eclogue for instance E. Norden, Die Geburt des Kindes (1924), J. Carcopino, Virgile et le mystère de la IVe Eclogue (1930), Linkomies, E., Vergils Vierte Ekloge (Arctos, 1930)Google Scholar, G. Jachmann, Die Vierte Ekloge Vergils (Ann. della. Scuola Norm. Sup. di Pisa, 1952).

36 See above, p. 1146 ff.