The Roman Spirit - In Religion, Thought and Art

by Grenier,Albert

• ISBN13: 9780415155823
• ISBN10: 0415155827
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This work provides a landmark in early twentieth century publishing summarizing the most up to date findings in all branches of the social sciences at a formative time and during a period of decisive historical discovery.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Henry Berr
PART I THE CITY OF ROME AND THE ITALIAN CIVILIZATIONS
The Foundation of the City	1	(17)
Latium and the Latins	2	(5)
The Sabines	7	(1)
The Etruscans	8	(2)
The Synoecism of Rome	10	(8)
Etruscan Art and Civilization in Rome	18	(26)
Ionian Civilization and Etruscan Art	18	(1)
Etruscan Monuments in Rome. The Capitoline Temple and the Wolf of the Capitol	19	(9)
The Introduction of Writing in Rome	28	(4)
Etrusco-Roman Legendary Traditions	32	(4)
Various Survivals of the Etruscan Period in Roman Civilization	36	(3)
The Population and Proper Names of Rome	39	(5)
Rome and Italy	44	(39)
The Native Reaction. Latins and Sabines	44	(6)
Rome and the Greeks of Italy	50	(4)
The Conquest of the Italian Civilizations	54	(8)
Artistic Development in Rome from the Fifth to the Third Century	62	(11)
Roman Money	73	(4)
Appius Claudius Caccus	77	(6)
The Old Roman Religion	83	(36)
The Roman Conception of Divinity and the Principal Gods	84	(13)
Characteristics of Roman Worship	97	(4)
Religious Organization and the Priestly Colleges	101	(4)
Religion and the Beginnings of Literature	105	(10)
Conclusion of Part I. Rome, Italy, and Greece	112	(3)
PART II ROME AS A MEDITERRANEAN CAPITAL
Introduction	115	(4)
The Earliest Poets	119	(19)
Livius Andronicus and Naevius	119	(4)
Ennius	123	(5)
Plautus	128	(10)
The New Spirit and the Old Ideal. Scipio Africanus and Cato the Censor	138	(16)
Scipio Africanus	139	(5)
Cato the Censor	144	(10)
Changes in Religious Spirit	154	(11)
Religious Unrest in Rome during the Second Punic War	155	(3)
Oriental Cults. The Great Mother of the Gods of Pessinus	158	(2)
The Affair of the Bacchanalia and the Pontifical Reaction	160	(5)
The Circle of Scipio Aemilianus. Terence and Lucilius	165	(14)
Terence	167	(8)
Lucilius	175	(4)
From the Gracchi to Lucretius. Action and Thought	179	(14)
Stoicism and the Social Revolution	179	(4)
Lucretius	183	(10)
Science and Learning	193	(17)
Philosophy and Science	193	(1)
Astronomy and the Roman Calendar	194	(3)
Medicine	197	(4)
Historical and Philological Science	201	(9)
Oratory. Cicero and Literary Prose	210	(13)
Eloquence and Rhetoric	210	(5)
The Schools of Rhetoric	215	(5)
Literary Prose	220	(3)
Poetry. Catullus	223	(9)
Greek Art in Rome	232	(37)
The Invasion of Greek Works of Art and Artists	232	(3)
Asiatic Art. Pergamon	235	(5)
Alexandria	240	(5)
The Neo-Attic School	245	(1)
The Hellenistic Schools of Art in Rome	246	(6)
Painting	252	(1)
The First Attempts at a Roman Art. Pasiteles and his School	253	(3)
The Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus	256	(2)
Architecture	258	(9)
Conclusion of Part II	265	(2)
PART III THE AGE OF AUGUSTUS
Introduction	267	(2)
Poetry and Morals	269	(22)
The End of Alexandrinism	269	(3)
Tibullus	272	(2)
Propertius	274	(5)
Ovid	279	(12)
Augustus and the National Reaction. Horace and Virgil	291	(29)
Caesar and Augustus	291	(2)
Horace	293	(4)
The Georgics	297	(7)
The Aeneid	304	(11)
The Secular Games	315	(5)
Knowledge and the Imperial Idea. Geography and History in Rome	320	(18)
Geography	321	(2)
The Map of Agrippa	323	(2)
Tacitus and his Germania	325	(3)
The History of Livy	328	(10)
Augustan Art	338	(27)
The Augustan Ideal and Official Art	338	(2)
The Statue of Augustus	340	(8)
The Altar of Peace	348	(17)
The Imperial Religion	365	(21)
The Popular Religion	367	(5)
The Religious Thought and Work of Augustus	372	(5)
The Worship of Rome and Augustus	377	(5)
The Results of the Augustan Restoration	382	(4)
Conclusion The Roman Spirit	386	(19)
The Gods	388	(3)
The City	391	(3)
Play	394	(3)
The Knowledge of Man	397	(5)
The Originality of the Roman Spirit	402	(3)
Bibliography	405	(8)
Index	413