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| title=An Introduction to Roman Religion
 
| author=John Scheid, Janet Lloyd (Translator)
 
| date=2003
 
| publisher=Indiana University Press
 
| ISBN=0253216605
 
| comment=This is an English translation of the book ''La Religion des Romains'' (ISBN 2200263775) . This book is a must for all those who wish to know what the Religio Romana was and how it was practiced. It is written in the form of a manual, a small booklet very easy to read, with lots of notes, quotations and illustrations.
 
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| title= Religion of the Romans 
 
| author=Jörg Rüpke
 
| date=2007
 
| publisher=Cambridge : Polity
 
| ISBN=9780745630151
 
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| comment=excellent discussion of organizations
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Religions of Rome, (2 Volumes)
 
| author=Mary Beard, John North & Simon Price
 
| date=1998
 
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| ISBN=0521316820
 
| comment= Paperback. Volume I (ISBN 0521316820) is a history from early Rome down to the Christian emperors (the last chapter). Volume 2 (ISBN 0521456460) is a sourcebook with lots of pictures, including calendar, religious places, festivals and ceremonies, sacrifices and divination.
 
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| title=Roman Religion: A Sourcebook
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| author=Valerie Warrior
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| date=2002
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| publisher=Focus Publishing
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| ISBN=1585100307
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| title=The Gods of Ancient Rome: Religion in Everyday Life from Archaic to Imperial Times
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| author=Robert Turcan
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| date=2001
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| publisher=Routledge
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| ISBN=0415929741
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| title=Roman Religion (New Surveys in the Classics)
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| author= J. A. North
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| date=0199224331
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| publisher=Oxford University Press
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| ISBN=0199224331
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| title=The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage)
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| author=Clifford Ando
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| date=2009
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| publisher=University of California Press
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| ISBN=0520259866
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| title=Archaic Roman Religion, Volume One
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| author=Georges Dumezil
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| date=1996
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| publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press
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| ISBN=0801854806
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| title=Archaic Roman Religion, Volume Two
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| author=Georges Dumezil
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| date=1996
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| publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press
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| ISBN=0801854814
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===Specific Topics===
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| title=The Flamen
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| author=J. Vanggaard
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| date=1988
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| ISBN=8772890592
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| comment=Gathers together all the known evidence on the Roman flamines.
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| title=Les flamines et leurs dieux
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| author=Domenico Fasciano, Pierre Seguin
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| date=1993
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| ISBN=2980351504
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| worldcat=28673540
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| title= Il flaminato nelle province romane dell'Africa
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| author=Maria Silvia Bassignano
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| date=1974
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| publisher= L'erma di Bretschneider
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| worldcat=2014411
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| comment=series Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di storia antica, Università degli studi di Padova ; v. 11
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| title=Le collège pontifical 3eme s. a. C. - 4eme s. p. C. : contribution à l'étude de la religion publique romaine
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| author=Francoise van Haeperen
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| date=2002
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| ISBN=9074461492
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| comment=The latest study on the pontifical college.
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| title=Rome's Vestal Virgins
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| author=Robin Lorsch Wildfang
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| date=2006
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| publisher=Routledge
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| ISBN=0415397952
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| comment=all latin texts collected
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| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
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| title=Le Vestali
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| author=Maria Cristina Martini
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| date=2004
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| publisher=Editions Latomus
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| ISBN=2870312237
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| comment=the latest work on a long neglected topic
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| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
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| title=Kalender und Öffentlichkeit : die Geschichte der Repräsentation und religiösen Qualifikation von Zeit in Rom
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| author=Jörg Rüpke
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| date=1995
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| publisher=
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| ISBN=3110145146
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| comment=Challenging analysis of the calendar with complete literary sources and fantastic bibliography with indexes. Rüpke postulates NP = ''nefas piaculum'' and EN = ''endoitio exitio nefas''.
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| title=The Roman Goddess Ceres
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| author=Barbette Stanley Spaeth
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| date=1996
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| ISBN=0292776926
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| comment=A work based on the author's doctoral thesis on all known evidence about the Goddess.
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| title=Death and Burial in the Roman World
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| author=J.M.C. Tonybee
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| date=1996
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| ISBN=0801855071
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| comment=A covering of the various aspects of death, burial, funerals, and the afterlife as based on the ancient sources and archaeology.
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| title=La vie religieuse des matrones dans la Rome archaïque
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| author=Nicole Boels-Janssen
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| date=1993
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| publisher=Ecole Française de Rome
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| ISBN=2728302820
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| comment=Important discussion of household ritual, discussion of the flaminica.
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| title=Women's religious activity in the Roman Republic
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| author=Celia E. Schultz
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| date=2006
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| publisher=The University of North Carolina Press
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| ISBN=0807830186
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| comment=via epigrahpic evidence & votive deposits, this book analyses women's participation in the public religious sphere, domestic rituals, and the role of the flaminate as a married priesthood.
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| title=Vestal virgins, sibyls, and matrons : women in Roman religion
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| author=Sarolta A. Takacs
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| date=2008
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| publisher= University of Texas Press
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| ISBN=9780292716940
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==Magic and Divination==
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| title=On divination and synchronicity : the psychology of meaningful chance
 
| author=Marie-Luise von Franz
 
| date=1980
 
| publisher=Inner City Books
 
| ISBN=0919123023
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat=
 
| comment=very useful Jungian study
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Magic in the Ancient world
 
| author=Fritz Graf
 
| date=1997
 
| publisher=Harvard University Press
 
| ISBN=0674541540
 
| comment= excellent book about ideology & practice in graeco-roman world
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Magic and Magicians in the Graeco-Roman World
 
| author=Matthew Dickie
 
| date=2001
 
| publisher=Routledge
 
| ISBN=0415249821
 
| worldcat=45951576
 
| comment=
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Mantikê : studies in ancient divination
 
| author=eds, Sarah Iles Johnston and Peter T. Struck.
 
| date=2005
 
| publisher=Brill
 
| ISBN=9004144978
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat=
 
| comment=excellent essays, Friz Graf, ''sortes'', with fine bibliography
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Greek and Roman Necromancy
 
| author=Daniel Ogden
 
| date=2001
 
| publisher=Princeton University Press
 
| ISBN=069100904X
 
| comment=fantastically interesting with lots of detail
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Magic, witchcraft, and ghosts in the Greek and Roman worlds : a sourcebook
 
| author=Daniel Ogden
 
| date=2002
 
| publisher=Oxford University Press
 
| ISBN=019513575X
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat=
 
| comment=replaces G. Luck's Arcana Mundi
 
| name=
 
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===Specific Cults===
 
 
'''For more reading on specific cults, see also [[:Category:Reading list|the list of reading lists]].'''
 
 
{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Apollon Romain
 
| author=Jean Gagé
 
| date=1955
 
| publisher=Bibliothèque des écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome: fasc. 182
 
| ISBN=
 
| worldcat=4996696
 
| comment=
 
| name=
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Apollon Imperial, garant des "Fata Romana"
 
| author=Jean Gagé
 
| date=1981
 
| publisher=ANRW, II,17,2,
 
| ISBN=3110018853
 
| comment= (I, 1)
 
| name=
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Bona Dea : the sources and a description of the cult
 
| author=Hendrik H.J. Brouwer
 
| date=1989
 
| publisher=Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill,
 
| ISBN=9004086064
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat=
 
| comment=
 
| name=
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Worshipping Diana
 
| author=Lora Louise Holland
 
| date=2002
 
| publisher=Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 2002. 3 microfiche ; 11 x 15 cm
 
| ISBN=
 
| worldcat=51250081
 
| comment=  Cult of a Roman Goddess in Republican Italy. Thesis WorldCat. no.51250081
 
| name=
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia
 
| author=C.M.C. Green
 
| date=2007
 
| publisher=Cambridge University Press
 
| ISBN=0521851580
 
| comment=
 
| name=
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Fortuna
 
| author=Jacqueline Champeaux
 
| date=1982
 
| publisher=Ecole Française de Rome
 
| ISBN=2728300410
 
| comment=  covers all cults of Fortuna, Muliebris, Virilis, Fors Fortuna taking into account archeology, epigraphy etc. ISBNs: 2728300410 (v. 1) 2728300429 (v. 1 : flap)
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=The Goddess Fortuna in Imperial Rome : Cult, Art, Text
 
| author=Darius Andre Arya
 
| date=2006
 
| publisher=University of Texas at Austin
 
| ISBN=
 
| comment=available [http://hdl.handle.net/2152/152 online]!
 
| name=
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Hekate Soteira
 
| author= Sarah Isles Johnston
 
| date=1990
 
| publisher=Scholars Press
 
| ISBN=155540426X
 
| comment=American Classical Studies no.21
 
| name=
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Isis in the Graeco-Roman World
 
| author=R.E. Witt
 
| date=1971
 
| publisher=Cornell University Press
 
| ISBN=0801406331
 
| comment=dated, but a classic text on the cult
 
| name=
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Choisir Dionysos
 
| author=Anne-Francoise Jaccottet
 
| date=2003
 
| publisher=Akanthus
 
| ISBN=3905083183
 
| comment=the very latest research on cult associations, a must
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
 
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| title=Liber Pater
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| author=Adrien Bruhl
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| date=1953
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| publisher=series:Bibiliothèque des écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, Fasc.175
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| worldcat=4972948
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Politics and Religion in the Bacchanalian Affair of 186 BCE
 
| author=Sarolta A. Takacs
 
| date=2000
 
| publisher=Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
 
| ISBN=
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat=
 
| comment=important article
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=In Search of God the Mother
 
| author=Lynn E. Roller
 
| date=1999
 
| publisher=University of California Press
 
| ISBN=0520210247
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Corpus cultus Cybelae Attidisquae (CCCA)
 
| author=M.J. Vermaseren
 
| date=1900-
 
| publisher=E.J. Brill
 
| ISBN=9004053999
 
| comment=every single inscription, every artifact a great series
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=The Mother of the Gods
 
| author=Mark Henderson Munn
 
| date=2006
 
| publisher=University of California Press
 
| ISBN=0520243498
 
| comment=important update of Roller's work
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Mens Bona
 
| author=Màrio Melo
 
| date=1968
 
| publisher=Libereria Scientifa editrice  series: Collana di studi greci:46
 
| ISBN=
 
| worldcat=2371080
 
| comment= The work on this cultus of Mens Bona
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title= Mercure romain : le culte public de Mercure et la fonction mercantile à Rome de la République archaïque à l'épopque augustéenne 
 
| author=Bernard Combet Farnoux
 
| date=1980
 
| publisher= Bibliothèque des écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome ; fasc. 238 
 
| ISBN=
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat= 8169904
 
| comment=
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Les origines et le développement du culte des pénates à Rome
 
| author=Annie Dubourdieu
 
| date=1989
 
| publisher=Ecole française de Rome
 
| ISBN=272830162
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat=
 
| comment=
 
| name=
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Ricerche storico-epigrafiche sul culto di "Neptunus" nell'Italia romana
 
| author=Adelina Arnaldi.
 
| date=1997
 
| publisher=Roma : [Istituto italiano per la storia antica],
 
| ISBN=
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat=39151383
 
| comment=
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Les origines et le développement du culte des Pénates à Rome
 
| author=Annie Dubourdieu
 
| date=1989
 
| publisher= [Rome] : Ecole française de Rome, 1989.
 
| ISBN=272830162X
 
| worldcat=
 
| comment=
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=The Cult of Silvanus
 
| author=Peter F. Dorcey
 
| date=1992
 
| publisher=Brill
 
| ISBN=9004096019
 
| comment=the latest study
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=The Cult of Sol Invictus
 
| author=Gaston H. Halsberghe
 
| date=1972
 
| publisher=Brill
 
| ISBN=
 
| comment= a bad book, read it for the classical references and inscriptions
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=The Sun which Did Not Rise in the East
 
| author=Steven E. Hijmans
 
| date=1996
 
| publisher=BABesch, 71,115-150
 
| ISBN=
 
| comment=seminal article, his conclusions have not been refuted
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=La religion romaine de Vénus
 
| author=Robert Schilling
 
| date=1982
 
| publisher=Bibliothèque des écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, fasc. 178
 
| ISBN=
 
| worldcat=8362955
 
| comment=Schilling is the expert on the cult of Venus, a great book.
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=The Cult of Virtues
 
| author=J. Rufus Fears
 
| date=1981
 
| publisher=Aufsteig und Neidergang der Römischen Welt II, 17.2
 
| ISBN=3110018853
 
| comment= wonderful essay, very important
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Volcanus
 
| author=Gérard Capdeville
 
| date=1995
 
| publisher=Ecole Française de Rome
 
| ISBN=2728302723
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat=33295483
 
| comment=fasc. 288
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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===Other Provinces===
 
  
{{Bookinfo
 
| title=La romanisation des dieux : l'interpretatio romana en Afrique du Nord sous le Haut-Empire
 
| author=Alain Cadotte
 
| date=2007
 
| publisher=Leiden
 
| ISBN=900415258X
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat=
 
| comment=
 
| name=
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Religion in Roman Britain
 
| author=Martin Henig
 
| date=1984
 
| publisher=Batsford
 
| ISBN=0713412208
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat=
 
| comment=
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=The pagan god : popular religion in the Greco-Roman Near East
 
| author=Javier Teixidor
 
| date=1977
 
| publisher=Princeton University Press
 
| ISBN=0691072205
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat=
 
| comment=fascinating & very readable
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Temples in Roman Britain
 
| author=M.J.T. Lewis
 
| date=1966
 
| publisher=Cambridge University Press
 
| ISBN=
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat=679330
 
| comment=
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Gods,Temples and Relgious Practices The Transformation of Religious Ideas and Values in Roman Gaul
 
| author=Ton Derks
 
| date=1998
 
| publisher=Amsterdam University Press
 
| ISBN=9053562540
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat=
 
| comment=
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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===Religion and Law===
 
  
 
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| title=The State, Law and Religion: Pagan Rome
 
| author=Alan Watson
 
| date=1992
 
| publisher=University of Georgia Press
 
| ISBN=0820313874
 
| comment=Hardcover. Watson analyzes the interaction of law and religion in ancient Rome, drawing connections between class tensions and the development of civil and religious law.
 
| name=
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Religion and law in classical and Christian Rome
 
| author=Clifford Ando / Jörg Rüpke (eds.)
 
| date=2006
 
| publisher=Steiner
 
| ISBN=3515088547
 
| ISSN=
 
| worldcat=
 
| comment=
 
| name=
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Roman Questions: Selected Papers
 
| author=Jerzy Linderski
 
| date=1995
 
| publisher=
 
| ISBN=3515066772
 
| comment=brilliant, short essays on augural law, prosography
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=The Augural Law
 
| author=Jerzy Linderski
 
| date=1986
 
| publisher=Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt, II 16.3
 
| ISBN=3110018853
 
| comment=<!--, 2146-2312 --> A seminal monograph on augural law, in English.
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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{{Bookinfo
 
| title=Roman augural lore in Greek historiography; a study of the theory and terminology
 
| author=Jyri Vaahtera
 
| date=2001
 
| publisher=
 
| ISBN=3515079467
 
| comment=the latest Finnish expert on augury
 
| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
 
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| title=De Modis Auspicandi Romanorum
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| author=M.J. Valeton
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| date=1890-1
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| publisher=
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| ISBN=
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| comment=Mnemosyne, 17-18 (1890-1891).
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| ISSN=0026-7074
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| name=[[User:Marca Hortensia Maior|Marca Hortensia Maior]]
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| title=De Iure Obnuntiandi Comitiis et Conciliis
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| author=M.J.Valeton
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| date=
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| publisher=
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| ISBN=
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| comment=Mnemosyne, 19 (1891).
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| ISSN=0026-7074
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Contents

Modern Scholarship

General

Dictionary of Roman Religion

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Lesley Adkins, Roy A. Adkins. (1995). ISBN 0195142330
Paperback. An excellent resource for general knowledge or just to look up that obscure temple or God. Includes a very good bibliography.
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Religion in Archaic and Republican Rome and Italy: Evidence and Experience

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ed. by Edward Bispham and Christopher Smith. (2000). Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. ISBN 1579583253

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Roman Religion (Cambridge Introduction to Roman Civilization)

Valerie Warrior. (2006). 0521532124.
Contributed by A. Sempronius Regulus

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Temples, Religion, and Politics in the Roman Republic

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Eric M. Orlin. (1997). Brill. ISBN 0391041320
Contributed by Q. Valerius Poplicola
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Librorum de Disciplina Augurali ante Augusti Mortem Scriptorum Reliquiae

Francis Albert Brause. (1875).
A Thesis on the extant literary fragments that describe and/or detail augural practice from before the death of Augustus.


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Götter und Lararien aus Augusta Raurica

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Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann.. (1998). Augst : Römermuseum. ISBN 3715100265

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Empire

The Cults of the Roman Empire

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Robert Turcan, (Antonia Nevill, Trans.). (1996). Blackwell. ISBN 0631200479
Paperback. Terrific information on the influences of foreign cults on Rome, including Isis, the Magna Mater, etc.
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Paganism in the Roman Empire

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Ramsay MacMullen. (1983). ISBN 0300029845
Paperback.
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The cult images of imperial Rome

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Cornelius Vermeule. (1987). ISBN 8876890130

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Etruscans

Etruscan Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of Etruscan Studies

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Larissa Bonfante (Ed.). (1987). ISBN 0814318134
Paperback. While it doesn't specifically deal with Classical Rome, the Etruscans were important contributors to the Roman conception of death, religion, and the afterlife. An important foundational work.
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Greek Religion

Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality

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Lewis Richard Farnell. (1921). Oxford. ISBN 0890050236
Hardback. A bit out-dated but a still a great read for information on Greek hero cults. Contributed by Q. Valerius Poplicola
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Religions of the Ancient Greeks

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Simon Price. (1999). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521382017
A great little manual for an introduction to the various religions of the ancient Greeks Contributed by Q. Valerius Poplicola
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Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece

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Dennis D. Hughes. (1991). Routledge. ISBN 0415034833
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Greek Religion

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Walter Burkert. (1985). Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674362802
Cloth. The standard book for Greek religion, this should be read by anyone studying religions anywhere near the Mediterranean, including the Religio Romana. Highly recommend. Contributed by Q. Valerius Poplicola
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Egyptian Religion

Temples of Ancient Egypt

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(1997). Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801433991
Hardback. A solid collection of essays by experts in Egyptian religion and archaeology. Contributed by Q. Valerius Poplicola
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International Law in Archaic Rome: War and Religion

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Alan Watson. (1993). The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801845068
Hardcover. While it may seem odd to include a book on international law in the religion section, this excellent resource is essentially about the Fetiales, the priests whose duties included the maintenance of international relations; treaties, declarations of war, etc. A must-read for anyone aspiring to become a member of the Fetiales. Contributed by Flavius Vedius Germanicus
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Contributi allo studio del diritto augurale. I

Pierangelo Catalano. (1960).


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De Inaugurationibus Romanis Caerimoniarum et Sacerdotum

M.J. Valeton. (1891). ISSN 0026-7074
Mnemosyne, 19 (1891).


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De Temporum Computatione Romanorum

Paul Krüger. (1861).
A doctoral dissertation on Roman time.

De Auspiciis Romanorum

Eric Samuel Ödmann. (1825).
A thesis on Roman auspices.


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Primary Literature

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The "Meditations of Marcus Aurelius", musings of one of the most famous Stoics of history; the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

Marcus Aurelius (Loeb Classical Library 58)

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C.R. Haines (Editor), Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus. (1930). ISBN 0674990641
Hardcover. Part of the Loeb Classical Library (#58).
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The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

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David Hicks (Translator), C. Scot Hicks (Translator). (2002). ISBN 0743233832
Hardcover
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Meditations (Modern Library Classics)

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Gregory Hays (Translator). (2003). ISBN 0812968255
Paperback
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Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Nature of the Gods and on Divination (Great Books in Philosophy)

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Marcus Tullius Cicero, C.D. Yonge (Translator). (n.d.) ISBN 1573921807
Important first-hand accounts of attitudes towards religion and divination in the late Republic. Paperback. Published 1997 reprint of 1853 edition
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The Nature of the Gods (Penguin Classics)

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Marcus Tullius Cicero, J. M. Ross (Introduction), Horace C. P. McGregor (Translator). (1972). ISBN 0140442650
Reissue edition Paperback
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The Republic and The Laws

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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Jonathan Powell (Introduction), Niall Rudd (Translator). (1998). ISBN 0192832360

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Marcus Terentius Varro

De Lingua Latina/On the Latin Language

M. Terentius Varro, Roland G. Kent (trans.). (1951). Harvard University Press.
Loeb version Contributed by Q. Valerius Poplicola

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Roman Religion: A Sourcebook 
Valerie M. Warrior / Paperback / 2002 /ISBN 1585100307 Read a review at UNRV
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