<p>"Woodard fashions a point-by-point comparison between classical Latin and Greek accounts of certain archaic Roman ceremonies that demarcate, celebrate, and hallow civic space . . . and some of the many painstakingly detailed prescriptions for sacrifice in which the brahmanic literature of ancient India abounds."<br />--<i>Indo-European Studies Bulletin</i></p>

<p>"A stimulating, thought-provoking, and structured account of what can appear to be random and inexplicable details in the synchronic system, a way of thinking 'outside the box' of a single culture."--<i>Journal of the American Oriental Society</i></p>

"A great and beautiful book."--<i>History of Religions</i>

Explaining the survival of Proto-Indo-European cultic spaces in Vedic India and ancient Rome
Provides an examination of the sacred spaces of ancient Rome, finding them remarkably consistent with older Indo-European religious practices as described in the Vedas of ancient India. This book focuses on issues including the presence of the god Terminus in Jupiter's Capitoline temple, the nature of the Roman suovetaurilia, and more.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780252029882
Publisert
2006-09-25
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Illinois Press
Vekt
626 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
33 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
312

Forfatter

Biographical note

Roger Woodard is Andrew V. V. Raymond Professor of the Classics and professor of linguistics at the University of Buffalo (The State University of New York). Among his many books are Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages.