The Religion of Ancient Rome — Cyril Bailey

The conditions of our knowledge of the native religion of early Rome may perhaps be best illustrated by a parallel from Roman archæology The visitor to the Roman Forum at the present day if he wishes to reconstruct in imagination the Forum of the early Republic must not merely think away many strata of later buildings but we are told must picture to himself a totally different orientation of the whole the upper layer of remains which he sees before him is for his purpose in most cases not merely useless but positively misleading In the same way if we wish to form a picture of the genuine Roman religion we cannot find it immediately in classical literature we must banish from our minds all that is due to the contact with the East and Egypt and even with the other races of Italy and we must imagine so to speak a totally different mental orientation before the great influx of Greek literature and Greek thought which gave an entirely new turn to Roman ideas in general and in particular revolutionised religion by the introduction of anthropomorphic notions and sensuous representations

The conditions of our knowledge of the native religion of early Rome may perhaps be best illustrated by a parallel from Roman archæology The visitor to the Roman Forum at the present day if he wishes to reconstruct in imagination the Forum of the early Republic must not merely think away many strata of later buildings but we are told must picture to himself a totally different orientation of the whole the upper layer of remains which he sees before him is for his purpose in most cases not merely useless but positively misleading In the same way if we wish to form a picture of the genuine Roman religion we cannot find it immediately in classical literature we must banish from our minds all that is due to the contact with the East and Egypt and even with the other races of Italy and we must imagine so to speak a totally different mental orientation before the great influx of Greek literature and Greek thought which gave an entirely new turn to Roman ideas in general and in particular revolutionised religion by the introduction of anthropomorphic notions and sensuous representations

The conditions of our knowledge of the native religion of early Rome may perhaps be best illustrated by a parallel from Roman archæology The visitor to the Roman Forum at the present day if he wishes to reconstruct in imagination the Forum of the early Republic must not merely think away many strata of later buildings but we are told must picture to himself a totally different orientation of the whole the upper layer of remains which he sees before him is for his purpose in most cases not merely useless but positively misleading In the same way if we wish to form a picture of the genuine Roman religion we cannot find it immediately in classical literature we must banish from our minds all that is due to the contact with the East and Egypt and even with the other races of Italy and we must imagine so to speak a totally different mental orientation before the great influx of Greek literature and Greek thought which gave an entirely new turn to Roman ideas in general and in particular revolutionised religion by the introduction of anthropomorphic notions and sensuous representations

The conditions of our knowledge of the native religion of early Rome may perhaps be best illustrated by a parallel from Roman archæology The visitor to the Roman Forum at the present day if he wishes to reconstruct in imagination the Forum of the early Republic must not merely think away many strata of later buildings but we are told must picture to himself a totally different orientation of the whole the upper layer of remains which he sees before him is for his purpose in most cases not merely useless but positively misleading In the same way if we wish to form a picture of the genuine Roman religion we cannot find it immediately in classical literature we must banish from our minds all that is due to the contact with the East and Egypt and even with the other races of Italy and we must imagine so to speak a totally different mental orientation before the great influx of Greek literature and Greek thought which gave an entirely new turn to Roman ideas in general and in particular revolutionised religion by the introduction of anthropomorphic notions and sensuous representations

Cyril Bailey tarafından kaleme alınan The Religion of Ancient Rome Kanon Kitap eseri olarak okurlarla buluşuyor The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey Kitap Özeti The conditions of our knowledge of the native religion of early Rome may perhaps be best illustrated by a parallel from Roman archæology The visitor to the Roman Forum at the present day if he wishes to reconstruct in imagination the Forum of the early Republic must not merely think away many strata of later buildings but we are told must picture to himself a totally different orientation of the whole the upper layer of remains which he sees before him is for his purpose in most cases not merely useless but positively misleading In the same way if we wish to form a picture of the genuine Roman religion we cannot find it immediately in classical literature we must banish from our minds all that is due to the contact with the East and Egypt and even with the other races of Italy and we must imagine so to speak a totally different mental orientation before the great influx of Greek literature and Greek thought which gave an entirely new turn to Roman ideas in general and in particular revolutionised religion by the introduction of anthropomorphic notions and sensuous representations Yayınevi Kanon Kitap Yazar Cyril Bailey Sayfa 108 Sayfa Kağıt 2 Hamur Boyut 13 00x20 00 cm Basım Yılı Haziran 2024 Barkod 9786058103474 Kategori Tarih Kitapları Yabancı Dilde Kitaplar Araştırma İnceleme

The conditions of our knowledge of the native religion of early Rome may perhaps be best illustrated by a parallel from Roman archæology The visitor to the Roman Forum at the present day if he wishes to reconstruct in imagination the Forum of the early Republic must not merely think away many strata of later buildings but we are told must picture to himself a totally different orientation of the whole the upper layer of remains which he sees before him is for his purpose in most cases not merely useless but positively misleading In the same way if we wish to form a picture of the genuine Roman religion we cannot find it immediately in classical literature we must banish from our minds all that is due to the contact with the East and Egypt and even with the other races of Italy and we must imagine so to speak a totally different mental orientation before the great influx of Greek literature and Greek thought which gave an entirely new turn to Roman ideas in general and in particular revolutionised religion by the introduction of anthropomorphic notions and sensuous representations

The conditions of our knowledge of the native religion of early Rome may perhaps be best illustrated by a parallel from Roman archæology The visitor to the Roman Forum at the present day if he wishes to reconstruct in imagination the Forum of the early Republic must not merely think away many strata of later buildings but we are told must picture to himself a totally different orientation of the whole the upper layer of remains which he sees before him is for his purpose in most cases not merely useless but positively misleading In the same way if we wish to form a picture of the genuine Roman religion we cannot find it immediately in classical literature we must banish from our minds all that is due to the contact with the East and Egypt and even with the other races of Italy and we must imagine so to speak a totally different mental orientation before the great influx of Greek literature and Greek thought which gave an entirely new turn to Roman ideas in general and in particular revolutionised religion by the introduction of anthropomorphic notions and sensuous representations