A series of lectures delivered by Professor Fowler at Edinburgh University for a public audience, concerning the development and decay of the religion of the Roman City-state. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
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Episodes
Lecture I - Introductory
Episode 1 · 56:10
Lecture II - On the Threshold of Religion: Survivals
Episode 2 · 37:17
Lecture III - On the Threshold of Religion: Magic
Episode 3 · 35:50
Lecture IV - The Religion of the Family
Episode 4 · 43:42
Lecture V - The Calendar of Numa
Episode 5 · 43:37
Lecture VI - The Divine Objects of Worship
Episode 6 · 49:32
Lecture VII - The Deities of the Earliest Religion: General Characteristics
Episode 7 · 42:22
Lecture VIII - Ritual of the Ius Divinum
Episode 8 · 58:19
Lecture IX - Ritual (Continued)
Episode 9 · 46:17
Lecture X - First Arrival of New Cults in Rome
Episode 10 · 48:32
Lecture XI - Contact of the Old and New in Religion
Episode 11 · 46:32
Lecture XII - The Pontifices and Secularisation of Religion
Episode 12 · 36:38
Lecture XIII - The Augurs and the Art of Divination
Episode 13 · 36:20
Lecture XIV - The Hannibalic War
Episode 14 · 40:50
Lecture XV - After the Hannibalic War
Episode 15 · 46:52
Section XVI - Greek Philosophy and Roman Religion
Episode 16 · 36:42
Lecture XVII - Mysticism - Ideas of a Future Life
Episode 17 · 39:10
Lecture XVIII - Religious Feelings in the Poems of Virgil
Episode 18 · 55:00
Lecture XIX - The Augustan Revival
Episode 19 · 48:21
Lecture XX - Conclusion
Episode 20 · 35:17
Appendix I - On the Use of Huts or Booths in Religious Ritual
Episode 21 · 10:41
Appendix II - Professor Deubner's Theory of the Lupercalia
Episode 22 · 5:51
Appendix III - The Pairs of Deities in Gellius xiii 23