Religion in Republican Rome: Rationalization and Ritual Change

Acknowledgments

A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s This book has a long history. I started work on it during a year as Erfurt fellow at the Max-Weber-Centre of the University of Erfurt in 2002/3. In the small and intellectually vibrant circle of those years, Hans Kippenberg and Wolfgang Mommsen, both fellows, helped to develop basic ideas and to relate rationality and cultural exchange. Many colleagues in many places – often without full awareness of the nature of this project—provided encouragement to go on and also to broaden the scope of the project, to add further elements. Martin Jehne and Fritz-Heiner Mutschler at Dresden, Marianne Wifstrand-Schwiebe and Björn Wittrock at Uppsala, Alessandro Barchiesi and Susan Stevens at Stanford University, Sander Goldberg at the University of California-Los Angeles and Cliff Ando while at USC, Ingo Gildenhard at London, Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp at Cologne, Rasmus Brandt (from Rome) and Ingvild Sælid Gilhus (from Bergen) at Oslo and Rosendal, and Helmut Krasser and Christa Frateantonio at Giessen were helpful in this respect. Several chapters profited from discussions at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris; from the participants in those occasions Nicole Belayche , Michel David, Jean-Louis Ferrary and John Scheid must be named. In the final stages the project was helped by the German Science Foundation (DFG) and my colleagues in the Priority Program ‘‘Roman Provincial and Imperial Religion’’ (SPP 1080), namely Dorothee Elm-von der Osten (now at Freiburg/Breisgau), Wolfgang Spickermann, Darja Šterbenc Erker and Katharina Waldner at Erfurt. The transformation of this manuscript into a book, finally achieved in the working conditions of the Research Group ‘‘Religious Individualization in Historical Perspectives’’ at the University of Erfurt, was greatly helped by Ruth Abbey and Clifford Ando (now at the University of Chicago). Both spent a great deal of time on improving my language and arguments, demanding coherence and clarity. Without their help the book would not have reached its present shape. At Erfurt, Elisabeth Begemann and Alexandra 320 Acknowledgments Dalek helped with the revision of the manuscript, providing or improving translations of chapters or part of chapters. Nicole Hartmann, Ulrike Frenzel, and Elisa Groff worked on the bibliography. Diana Püschel, as so often, cared for the final stage of the manuscript. Elizabeth Begemann prepared the index. Several chapters had appeared in different forms before. I am grateful to the publishers and editors who have made it possible for me to draw upon my earlier work and add reactions and improvements. Chapter 1 is abbreviated from ‘‘Archaic Roman Religion Through the Republic ,’’ in The Cambridge History of Religions of the Classical World, vol. 1, The Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era, ed. Marvin Sweeney and William Adler, Copyright  2012 Cambridge University Press. Chapters 2 and 10 are based on ‘‘Between Rationalism and Ritualism: On the Origins of Religious Discourse in the Late Roman Republic,’’ Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 11 (2009): 123–43. Chapter 3 is abbreviated from ‘‘Public and Publicity: Long-Term Changes in Religious Festivals During the Roman Republic,’’ in Festivals in the Ancient World, ed. Johan Rasmus Brandt and Jon Wikene Iddeng (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012). Chapter 4 uses analyses that appeared in ‘‘Accius als Theologe,’’ in Accius und seine Zeit, ed. Gesine Manuwald and Stefan Faller, Identitäten und Alterita ̈ten 13 (Würzburg: Ergon, 2002), 255–70. Chapter 5 is based on ‘‘Triumphator and Ancestor Rituals Between Symbolic Anthropology and Magic,’’ Numen 53 (2006): 251–89. Chapter 6 is based on ‘‘Räume literarischer Kommunikation in der Formierungsphase römischer Literatur,’’ in Moribus antiquis res stat Romana: Römische Werte und römische Literatur im dritten und zweiten Jahrhundert vor Christus, ed. Maximilian Braun and Fritz-Heiner Mutscher (München: Saur, 2000), 31–52; and ‘‘Kulturtransfer als Rekodierung: Zum literaturgeschichtlichen und sozialen Ort der frühen römischen Epik,’’ in Von Menschen und Göttern erzählen: Formkonstanzen und Funktionswandel vormoderner Epik, ed. Jörg Rüpke, Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 4 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2001), 42–64. Chapter 7 is abbreviated from ‘‘Rationalizing Religious Practices: The Pontifical Calendar and the Law,’’ in Law and Religion in the Roman Republic, ed. Olga Tellegen Couperus, Mnemosyne Suppl. 336 (Leiden: Brill, 2011). Acknowledgments 321 Chapter 9 is based on ‘‘Religion in the lex Ursonensis,’’ in Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, ed. Clifford...