Tesse Stek, Cult Places and Cultural Change in Republican Italy. A Contextual Approach to Religious Aspects of Rural Society After the Roman Conquest, Amsterdam, 2010.
Éditeur : Amsterdam University Press
Collection : Amsterdam Archaeological Studies
296 pages
ISBN : 9789089641779
€ 49.50
Cult places had a pivotal function in the rural areas of Italy. From the fourth century BC they were conquered by Rome. The political and military influence of Rome was known, but there has been little study of the effect of the Roman conquest in religious matters.
Tesse Stek sheds new light on the Roman impact on religious structures, and on the complex process of change in Italy. The religious influence of Rome was always limited, but Stek argues that the conquests led to the installation of new Roman cult places, rituals and festivals. Contrary to previous scholarship, it is argued that the Roman impact on religious structures in non-urban society was considerable. Not only did the growing Roman pressure sometimes lead to the reinforcement of traditional religious values in non-Roman Italic communities, but also for the newly established Roman rural communities cult places and rituals were important means of self-definition.
Based on a thorough analysis of archeological, literary, and epigraphic evidence, Stek shows that the religious influence of Rome was greater than previously thought. As part of the study, she presents the results of an archaeological survey on a temple in Italy.
Tesse Stek lectures in classical archaeology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen.
Source : Amsterdam University Press.
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