EAN: 9783515123785

PEACE AND WAR IN ROME - JÖRG RÜPKE KARTONIERT (TB)

Warfare is one of the defining elements that drove the development of the city of Rome from a
small territory into a Mediterranean Empire. Religion is identified as having played an
important part in this. Never done before  this book undertakes a survey of all rituals  and
religious institutions in a broader sense  along with discourses related to peace and warfare.
Priests and senators  generals and soldiers  men and women are acknowledged as agents with very
different competencies  interests  and experiences  but also different opportunities to leave
material traces or textual reflections of their activities. Throughout  the author pays
attention to developments in time as well as space. He seeks to reconstruct the religious
construction of peace and war at Rome as a tool and an attitude caught up in a process of
change. The book persists in addressing the ways in which specific religious concepts might
further or impede the pursuit of power and obedience to power  sharpen or mitigate internal
competition  be conducive or not to the integration of allied powers  without ever claiming to
explain military success or expansion.

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