Helpful Gods, Preaching Stoics, and Gossip from the Crossroads: Urban Religion in Horace's Satires and Epistles

Scholars generally hold that urban religion plays only a subordinate role in Horace's Satires and Letters. This article revises this verdict: it is precisely the many casual comments contained in both works which make clear how profoundly everyday religion is integrated into both works and into...

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Main Author: Egelhaaf-Gaiser, Ulrike 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Mohr Siebeck [2020]
In: Religion in the Roman empire
Year: 2020, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 310-336
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Horatius Flaccus, Quintus 65 BC-8 BC, Epistulae / Horatius Flaccus, Quintus 65 BC-8 BC, Saturae / Vatican Palace / City / Crossing / Popular piety / Saturnalia
RelBib Classification:AF Geography of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
BE Greco-Roman religions
Further subjects:B individual religion
B Tiberisland
B religious market
B compitum
B street preacher
B Saturnalia
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