Latin Sources
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- Created on: 20-06-13 15:36
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- Latin Sources
- Waterways
- Aqueducts
- Concrete lining
- Channel
- From distant streams/reservoiurs
- Poor quality - fountains and baths and latrines
- High quality - drinking
- Few houses running water
- Illegal pipes running off aqueducts
- Lead piping
- 3 storage tanks
- Tank to baths
- Tank to private homes
- Vitruvius
- Inspection holes and air holes
- Untitled
- Sewage
- River Tiber
- Ran off homes and baths - large channels - unhygenic
- Cloaca Maximus
- Aqueducts
- Religion
- Many gods
- Main gods
- Jupiter - god of heavens
- Mars - god of war
- Quirites
- State god - Romulus worshipped through him
- Gods with HUMAN PERSONALITIES
- Objects also have 'numen' 0 spirits
- Boundary stones - special significance
- Terminus
- Main gods
- Festivals
- Sacrifices
- Anna Perenna (Ides of March)
- Ambarvalia
- Farmers celebrated it as crops begin to ripen
- Sacrifice sheep, pig, ox and give first fruits and products of last harvest
- 'Borrowed' gods from conquered enemies - more powerful
- Foretelling future from entrails
- Liver
- Lightning and other alarming events
- EVERYTHING CAN BE CONTROLLED
- Gods with HUMAN PERSONALITIES
- Objects also have 'numen' 0 spirits
- Boundary stones - special significance
- Terminus
- Gods with HUMAN PERSONALITIES
- Prayer
- Followed by
- Sacrifice
- Must represent something LIVING
- Foods
- Newly harvested crops
- Milk
- Wine
- Stunned
- Cut throat
- Examined entrails
- Vital organs burned on altar
- Carcass eaten
- Priest says prayers with face covered and over noise of flute - drown out bad omens
- Carcass eaten
- Vital organs burned on altar
- Examined entrails
- Cut throat
- Must represent something LIVING
- Must represent something LIVING
- Foods
- Newly harvested crops
- Milk
- Wine
- Sacrifice
- Followed by
- Private Worshp
- Vesta - goddess of the hearth/fire
- Festival
- Storehouse of treasures open in temple
- Married women only
- For week
- Storehouse of treasures open in temple
- Festival
- Janus - god of the doorway
- Penates - look after the larder, its contents and its replenishment
- SPIRITS
- Lares - family spirits of ancestors
- Kept as statuettes in cupboard
- Daily prayers and offerings
- Penates - look after the larder, its contents and its replenishment
- SPIRITS
- Lares - family spirits of ancestors
- Kept as statuettes in cupboard
- Daily prayers and offerings
- Lares - family spirits of ancestors
- Statuettes put on table at mealtimes
- SPIRITS
- Penates - look after the larder, its contents and its replenishment
- Lares - family spirits of ancestors
- Statuettes put on table at mealtimes
- SPIRITS
- Vesta - goddess of the hearth/fire
- Marriage
- By cohabiting for a year - not 3 nights apart
- Full ritual in presence of Pontifex Maximus
- Children
- Free born given bronze/leather amulet
- Keep until
- Woman married
- Age 13+
- Man replaces his childhood toga with man's toga (ages 14-17)
- Woman married
- Keep until
- Free born given bronze/leather amulet
- Untitled
- Many gods
- Waterways
- College of Augurs
- Priests
- Festivals
- Sacrifices
- Anna Perenna (Ides of March)
- Ambarvalia
- Farmers celebrated it as crops begin to ripen
- Sacrifice sheep, pig, ox and give first fruits and products of last harvest
- Couldn't be plebians - higher class clivilians
- Any doubt about what seen in entrails - AUGUR called to check
- Vestal Virgins
- Guard sacred fire, bake sacred bead and perform rituals of worship
- 6
- Festivals
- 15
- Learned to interpret omens
- Guard Sibylline Books
- Priests
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