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  • 16 - The place of religion: Rome in the early Empire

  • from PART IV - ROMAN SOCIETY AND CULTURE UNDER THE JULIO-CLAUDIANS
  • Edited by Alan K. Bowman, University of Oxford, Edward Champlin, Princeton University, New Jersey, Andrew Lintott, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Ancient History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    08 February 1996, pp 812-847

  • Summary

    Roman religion had always been closely linked with the city of Rome and its boundaries. Roman mythology, according to the traditional view, never existed: only under the influence of Greece in the last centuries BC did the gods acquire some kind of mythology. The Augustan period is conventionally viewed as one of restoration or renovation of traditional cults plus the addition of ruler cult. There were major changes in Rome in the Augustan period, which affected senatorial priesthoods and state temples; at the lower level, the ward cults; and the Secular Games. There were also rituals which focused more directly on the emperor himself, especially after his death. These are normally described as 'the imperial cult', and placed in a separate category from the 'restoration of religion'. The city of Rome also has to be located in the context of the empire. The social and physical context of the changes in Rome in the Augustan period merits discussion.