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4 unusual facts about Roman religion


Arae

In Roman religion, Arae is the plural for Ara, meaning altar.

Etruscan language

Etruscan religion influenced that of the Romans and many of the few surviving Etruscan language artifacts are of votive or religious significance.

Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana

Because of newcomers Serbs, Pope Eugene IV sent at 1438 Jakob de Marcia to Slavonia in missionary, he have task to baptized "schismatic" in "Roman religion", and if that fails, that banish them.

Seonangdang

As the concept of religion developed, these borders became worshipped as the homes of the border deities, equivalent to the Roman deity of Terminus.


Litavis

Her name is found in inscriptions found at Aignay-le-Duc and Mâlain of the Côte-d'Or, France, where she is invoked along with the Gallo-Roman god Mars Cicolluis in a context which suggests that she might have been his consort.

Robor

In Gallo-Roman religion, Robor or Roboris was a god invoked alongside the genius loci on a single inscription found in Angoulême.


see also

Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels

Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels (1909 – November 30, 1993 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) known as "Nan" to her friends, was a leading twentieth century scholar of Roman religion and daily life and a daughter of the Biblical scholar Kirsopp Lake (1872–1946).

Elaine Fantham

Fantham is an expert on Latin literature, especially comedy, epic poetry and rhetoric, and Roman religion and the social history of Roman women.