The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner

Harriet I. Flower

The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
4 December 2017
Pages
416
ISBN
9780691175003

The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at the Roman Street Corner

Harriet I. Flower

The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. These shrines were maintained primarily

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