Reviving Roman Religion: Sacred Trees in the Roman World

by Ailsa Hunt

Sacred trees are easy to dismiss as a simplistic, weird phenomenon, but this book argues that in fact they prompted sophisticated theological thinking in the Roman world. Challenging major aspects of current scholarly constructions of Roman religion, Ailsa Hunt rethinks what sacrality means in Roman culture, proposing an organic model which defies the current legalistic approach. She approaches Roman religion as a 'thinking' religion (in contrast...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107153549
• ISBN13: 9781107153547
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.9"