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
Chapters
1 Lecture I - Introductory 56 min 2 Lecture II - On the Threshold of Religion: Survivals 37 min 3 Lecture III - On the Threshold of Religion: Magic 36 min 4 Lecture IV - The Religion of the Family 44 min 5 Lecture V - The Calendar of Numa 44 min 6 Lecture VI - The Divine Objects of Worship 50 min 7 Lecture VII - The Deities of the Earliest Religion: General Characteristics 42 min 8 Lecture VIII - Ritual of the Ius Divinum 58 min 9 Lecture IX - Ritual (Continued) 46 min 10 Lecture X - First Arrival of New Cults in Rome 49 min 11 Lecture XI - Contact of the Old and New in Religion 47 min 12 Lecture XII - The Pontifices and Secularisation of Religion 37 min 13 Lecture XIII - The Augurs and the Art of Divination 36 min 14 Lecture XIV - The Hannibalic War 41 min 15 Lecture XV - After the Hannibalic War 47 min 16 Section XVI - Greek Philosophy and Roman Religion 37 min 17 Lecture XVII - Mysticism - Ideas of a Future Life 39 min 18 Lecture XVIII - Religious Feelings in the Poems of Virgil 55 min 19 Lecture XIX - The Augustan Revival 48 min 20 Lecture XX - Conclusion 35 min 21 Appendix I - On the Use of Huts or Booths in Religious Ritual 11 min 22 Appendix II - Professor Deubner's Theory of the Lupercalia 6 min 23 Appendix III - The Pairs of Deities in Gellius xiii 23 12 min 24 Appendix IV - Ius and Fas 7 min 25 Appendix V - The Worship of Sacred Utensils 3 min
