Lectures On the History of Roman Religion From Numa to Augustus
Lectures On the History of Roman Religion From Numa to Augustus
W R William Reginald Halliday
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As such it was indestructible and immortal. A philosophical basis was thus provided for the hope of apotheosis. The philosophical doctrines thus too briefly summarised are of immediate interest to our theme because they provided for the upper and intellectual classes what was in fact a substitute for religion. They tolerated in some cases or approved in others the performance of the normal religious observances as social duties or as alle- gorical representations which though believed literally... by the vulgar, conveyed a philosophical truth to which the Wise Man possessed the key. Religion, however, which is explained away as something else, has lost the objective sincerity upon which it depends for vitality. LECTURE VIII THE AUGUSTAN REVIVAL IN the last chapter we have considered the decay of Roman religion and have analysed some of its causes. In 31 B. C. It apparently had ceased to exist in any real sense. Why then did Augustus attempt to revive it ? The character of that great man remains an enigma but we shall probably be safe in rejecting any attribution of prophetic fervour or burning religious conviction to the great founder of the Empire.
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