105- Religious Reshuffle

About this episode

This episode discusses the religious restructuring during Numa Pompilius' rule and its implications for Roman society.

Numa Pompilius' rule is a lot less exciting than that of Romulus in terms of warfare. Instead, we get a whole lot of religious restructuring, instilling piety into the rabble that is Roman society, and a mysterious burial with sacred texts the later Republic will never address again... That and calendar administration. Time period: 716- 672 BCE Relevant individuals: Numa Pompilius Sources for this episode: Cassius Dio (1961), Dio’s Roman History in Nine Volumes. Volume II. Translated by E. Cary. London, United Kingdom and Cambridge, Massachusetts: William Heinemann Ltd. and Harvard University Press. Dionysus of Halicarnassus (1960), The Roman Antiquities of Dionysus of Halicarnassus. Translated by E. Cary. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd. Livy (1971), The Early History of Rome. Translated by A. de Selincourt. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd. Marks, A. and Tingay, G. (date unknown), Romans. London: Usborne Publishing. M's Chronicle of the Roman Republic (TBA).Plutarch (1938), Plutarch's Lives (Volume I). London and New York: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. and E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown)…

People in this episode

Hosts: Vince, Cassie

Topics covered

• religious restructuring
• Roman society
• calendar administration
• Numa Pompilius
• sacred texts
• piety

Keywords

• Numa Pompilius
• religion
• Roman history
• sacred texts
• calendar
• piety

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Cassius Dio (1961), Dio’s Roman History in Nine Volumes. Volume II. Translated by E. Cary., Dionysus of Halicarnassus (1960), The Roman Antiquities of Dionysus of Halicarnassus. Translated by E. Cary., Livy (1971), The Early History of Rome. Translated by A. de Selincourt., Marks, A. and Tingay, G. (date unknown), Romans., M's Chronicle of the Roman Republic (TBA)., Plutarch (1938), Plutarch's Lives (Volume I)., Wikipedia (date unknown), Via Sacra (online)

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