| Accounts of the Roman religion in recent standard works; a hard
and highly formalised system. Its interest lies partly in this
fact. How did it come to be so? This the main question of
the first epoch of Roman religious experience. Roman religion
and Roman law compared. Roman religion a technical subject.
What we mean by religion. A useful definition applied to the
plan of Lectures I.-X.; including (1) survivals of primitive or
quasi-magical religion; (2) the religion of the agricultural family;
(3) that of the City-state, in its simplest form, and in its first
period of expansion. Difficulties of the subject; present position
of knowledge and criticism. Help obtainable from (1) archaeology,
(2) anthropology . . . | [1]-23 |