Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy

Edward Bispham teaches Ancient History at Brasenose and St Anne’s Colleges, and is a lecturer in the Faculty of Classics of the University of Oxford, UK. He has worked and published extensively on the history of Pre-Roman and Roman Italy. He edited (with Christopher Smith) Religion in Archaic and Republican Rome and Italy: Evidence and Experience (2000).Daniele Miano is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Junior Research Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Social and Cultural Study of the University of Erfurt, Germany. He published a number of works on polytheism in ancient Italy, including Fortuna: Deity and Concept in Archaic and Republican Italy (2018).

• Preface Introduction 1. Italic Ceres? 2. In the Name of Diana: Feronia and other Italic Goddesses in their Sacred Landscape 3. Getting to Know Diana 4. Beyond Rome: the Cult of Vesta in Latium 5. The God Castor at Rome: Form, Function and Cult 6. Loufir/Liber at the Crossroads of Religious Cultures in Pompeii (third-second centuries BC) 7. Suri et al.: A 'Chthonic' Etruscan face of Apollon? 8. Honouring Honos 9. From Saviours to Salvation: Salus in Republican Italy

"As a whole, the collection of essays in Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Italy does much to advance the scope and quality of our knowledge of the deities of the Italic world." - Claudia Moser, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Bryn Mawr Classical Review