The reception of Greek cults in Rome: A precondition of the emergence of an imperial religion

Archiv fur Religionsgeschichte

Volumn 1, Issue , 1999, Pages 161-173

  Cancik, Hubert ^a  

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110233827.161     Document Type: Article

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1. Cf. Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae.
2. 1.7.3; cf. 2.21; 2.38; etc.-Varro's Antiquitates (rerum divinarum) are quoted in 2.21 = B.Cardauns, Varro 1, p. 62.
3. 7.72.15.-The translation here and in the following is by Spelman-Cary, LCL.-Römer -1912. p. 418.- For differences between patrius and graecus ritus in animal sacrifice cf. H. Can-cik. -La religione Romana" in: B. Andreae, H. Cancik. et al., Princeps Urbiurn (Milano 1991) 373 ff.: "II sacrifìcio animale alimentare."
4. Stemma of Aeneas (1.62): Dardanus-Erichthonius-Tros-Assaracus-Capys-An- chises-Aeneas.
5. P. M. Martin, "La propagande Augustéenne dans les Antiquités Romaines de Denys d'Hali-carnasse" REL 49 (1971) 162-179, passim
6. H. Hill, "Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Origins of Rome" JRS 51 (1961) 88-93, 89
7. Dionysius reacts against Roman prejudices against Craeculi;Gabba. Dionysius and the History of Archaic Rome (Berkeley 1991 ) 213.
8. Livius 1.7.4: (Romulus) sacra dis aliis Albano ritu, Graeco Herculi ut ab Euandro instituia erant facit.- Servius auctus ad Virgil, Aen. 8.276; Varro in Servius 1.1 and :u Macrobius, Saturn.3.6.17.
9. For the pecularities of the cult cf. Servius (auctus) ad Virgil, Aen. 8.102ff.; Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, nos. 18, 90, 60.
10. Virg. Aen. 8.319-336; cf. Cato, De Lucio Veturio (Priscian, Gramm. 11.377 K.);
11. Macrobius,Saturn. 1.8.2; Dion. Hal. 1.38.
12. Servius aucius 8.721: Cf. H. Cancik, "Die 'Representation von 'Provinzen' in Rom: Ein Beitrag zur Bestimmung von 'Reichsrebgion' vom 1. Jh. v. C. bis zum 2. Jh. n. C." in: H. Cancik/ J. Röpke (eds.), Römuche Reichsreligion und Prorinzialreligion (Tübingen 1997) 132 f.
13. Varro. De familüe;is TroianU. is used by Virgil (cf. H. Peter, HUlaricorum Rotmmorum Reliquiae. 21914 = Stuttgart 1967. p. XXXIII) and Dion.. Ardi. 1.85.
14. For Varro s calculation cf. Varro. De genie p. R. frg. 3 (in: Censorio 21.1), and frg. 4 (in: Augustin. Cir. 22.28): Varro, De saecufo and Varro, De hebdomadibua (in Cellius 3.10).
15. Varro, De genie, frg. 6, names his source: Kastor of Rhodos (first century BC: FGrllist 250).
16. Varro, De lingua Latina, 5.57-58.
17. On the level of religious practice he applauds the répression of Egvptian cults in Rome, see Varro, Antt r. d.. 1, frg. 45-46.
18. Varro, Antt r. d., I, frg. 15-18.
19. Cf. Cicero, Acad, post, 9: nam nos in nostra urbe peregrinantes ermrnesque tamquam hospites tui (Varronis) libri quasi domum reduxerunt.
20. yarro Antt. r. d., IX (De ludis circensibus), in: Tertullian, De spectaculis, 8;
21. Varro, Logistori-cus Curio, in: Probus, on Virgil, EcL, 6.31 (cf. Cardauns, Varro I, p. 32).
22. Varro, Antt. rer. human., II, frg: 8 and 9 (P. Mirsch, 1882);
23. cf. Dion. Halic, Antt., 1.68.2-4;1.69.4; 2.66;
24. Servius, on Virgil, Aen. 3.12. .
25. Varro, Antt. r d., XV, frg. 205 (Cardauns).
26. Varro, Antt r. d., frg. 206 in Augustin, Cm, 7.28: sic interpretatur quae nec Sais nota sunt.
27. C. Cichorius, Römische Studien, 1922 (repr. 1961), p. 197 f. In his autobiography Varro dealt with Sarapis and Isis;
28. cf. Antt r. d., frg. 45-46.
29. Cichorius, Römische Studien, p. 204.
30. As other Romans were: cf. P. M. Fraser, Samothrace: The inscriptions (London 1960) 2,1 (Introduction).
31. P. M. Frayer, Samothrace: The Inscriptions on Stone, vol. 2, pt. 1 (London 1960), no. 63 (ca. 100 AD). My thanks are due to U. Egclhaaf-Gaiser for this information.
32. Cicero, De legibus (ca. 52 BC). book II.-Cf. H. Caneik. "M. tullius Cicero als Kommentator, in: J. Assmann/B. Gladigow (eds.). Text und Kommen tar (München 1995) 293-310.
33. Cic, Fin., 5.1 ff.-Cf. C. Habicht, Athen. Die Geschichte einer Stadt in hellenistischer Zeit (München 1995) 326ff.
34. Tertullian. Apofogcticum, 21.1.
35. Cf. Varro, de lingua Latina, 7.5.88. Sources, critical analysis, bibliography on tills topic in J. Scheid, "Graeco ritu : A Typically Roman Way of Honoring the Gods", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 97 (1995) 15-31.
36. Robert M. Errington, "Aspects of Roman Acculturation in the East under the Republic", in:Festschrift Karl Christ (Darmstadt 1988) 140-157.
37. Samothrace: G. Dittenberger, Sylloge, III (1960), no. 1053: Lucius Sicinius M. f. Romaios (after 90 BC);
38. cf. S. G. Cole, Theoi Megaloi. The Cult of the Great Gods of Samothrace (Leiden 1984) (EPRO 96).
39. SEG 29 (1979), 806: M. Marcius M. f.; cf. Errington, p. 146.
40. For M. Cornelius C. f. and an Aulus from Crete and L. Octavius cf. Errington, p. 156.