My impression has been that a lot of the Romans paid lip service to religion whereas Greek culture tended to be more devout. I've always heard it lectured that Vergil's Aeneid, for example, was a literary work rather than a sincere religious work like its Homeric forebears.
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 26, 2005 5:34:53 am PST #6943 of 10002
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sumi - Jan 26, 2005 11:00:48 am PST #6944 of 10002
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HPHBP is going to be 672 pages long. And the deluxe edition will be 704 pages long.
Deluxe edition?
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Dana - Jan 26, 2005 11:03:46 am PST #6945 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I don't suppose the deluxe addition has the missing scenes where Sirius comes back and has a lovely little "reunion" scene with Remus?
Edit on reading the article: Guess not.
Strix - Jan 26, 2005 11:09:07 am PST #6946 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Matt and Brenda are correct. The Romans were really practical about encountering a new culture's gods, and simply assigning them a place, at least in the early parts of the Roman empire. Look at the Celtic gods. It was all about tradition.
They did get a little upset about Isis, though, but mainly that's because her followers were just too luxurious, emotional and so darned un_Roman.
Early Romans were like the Borg when it comes to gods: We Will assimilate.
Now, after Constantine turned the Empire Xian, things were a little different.
Betsy HP - Jan 26, 2005 11:29:18 am PST #6947 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Not all that different. St. Brighid looks a lot like the Celtic goddess who preceded her. Heck, Christianity has a certain amount in common with Mithraism, or so I've been told.
Syncretism is an excellent survival strategy for a religion.
Strix - Jan 26, 2005 11:41:03 am PST #6948 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Now, after Constantine turned the Empire Xian, things were a little different.
Oh, I meant in that religion became a little more religous to the Romans with Xianity, than it had been with the pantheon. Course, Romans were pretty pragmatic and a lot of them converted easily, with no real qualms...but many were mightily worried about the Emperor taking religion so seriously.
erikaj - Jan 26, 2005 11:44:37 am PST #6949 of 10002
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Disquieting in its resonance. Though I don't really believe...well, maybe that's a thought best expressed somewhere else.
Strix - Jan 26, 2005 12:00:24 pm PST #6950 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Now I"m curious, Erika.
erikaj - Jan 26, 2005 12:18:31 pm PST #6951 of 10002
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I don't really believe Bush is for real. I think that is the appearance of conviction. But how does heathen me know? Apart from that, color me Roman.
Strix - Jan 26, 2005 12:21:24 pm PST #6952 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I think the conviction is real. BUT I don't think he's ever thought about religion at all; I think he seized it as an absolute idea, a my way or the highway approach.