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- Title
RELIGION AND RITUAL IN THE WESTERN PROVINCES.
- Authors
Revell, Louise
- Abstract
The article presents a study on the religion and ritual in the western provinces of Rome during the pre-Roman or Celtic and Roman periods. It describes how part of these cultural changes invloved learning different ways of communicating with the gods, such as new ways of interacting with, and placating a higher force. It uses the evidence from two sites to explore the nature of the rituals and the paradox which is inherent within the provinces, the paradox of similarity and difference. It also discusses a case study regarding the temple to Sulis Minerva at Bath which one of the most important religious sites in Roman Britain. It reports on the Baetican town of Munigua, the modern Mulva, which like Bath, seems to have drawn its importance from its religious role.
- Subjects
RITUAL; RELIGION; ROMAN provinces -- Religious life &; customs; SOCIAL change; ROMAN goddesses; RITES &; ceremonies; CELTIC philology; TEMPLE of Sulis Minerva (Bath, England); PARADOX; GREEK gods
- Publication
Greece & Rome, 2007, Vol 54, Issue 2, p210
- ISSN
0017-3835
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0017383507000162