Religion in Archaic and Republican Rome and Italy

Edward Bispham is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Brasenose College, Oxford. Christopher Smith is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews.

• Preface; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; List of figures1. Introduction, Edward Bispham2. An anthropologist's view of ritual, Nicole Bourque3. Tuscan order: the development of Etruscan sanctuary, Vedia Izzet4. Sacred Rubbish, Fay Glinister5. Some thoughts on the 'religious romanisation' of Italy before the Social War, Olivier de Cazanove6. From Concordia to the Quirinal: notes on religion and politics in mid-republican/hellenistic Rome, Emmanuele Curti7. Prophet and text in the third century BC, J. A. North8. The games of Hercules, T. P. Wiseman9. Looking beyond the civic compromise: religious pluralism in late republican Rome, Andreas Bendlin10. Worshipping Mater Matuta: ritual and context, Christopher SmithNotes; Bibliography; Index

A most stimulating book