The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome

THE RELIGION OF NUMA AND OTHER ESSAYS ON THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT ROME BY JESSE BENEDICT CARTER London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1906 _All rights reserved_ TO K.F.C. PREFACE This little book tries to tell the story of the religious life of the Romans from the time when their history begins for us until the close of the reign of Augustus. Each of its five essays deals with a distinct period and is in a sense complete in itself; but the dramatic development inherent in the whole forbids their separation save as acts or chapters. In spite of modern interest in the study of religion, Roman religion has been in general relegated to specialists in ancient history an…

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