THE AUGUSTAN REVIVAL
| Connection of Augustus and Virgil. Augustus aims at re-establishing the national pietas, and securing the pax deorum by means of the ius divinum. How this formed part of his political plans. Temple restoration and its practical result. Revival of the ancient ritual; illustrated from the records of the Arval Brethren. The new element in it; Caesar-worship; but Augustus was content with the honour of re-establishing the pax deorum. Celebration of this in the Ludi saeculares, 17 B.C. Our detailed knowledge of this festival; meaning of saeculum; description of the ludi, and illustration of their meaning from the Carmen saeculare of Horace. Discussion of the performance of this hymn by the choirs of boys and girls | [428]-451 |
LECTURE XX
CONCLUSION
| Religious ingredients in Roman soil likely to be utilised by Christianity. The Stoic ingredient; revelation of the Universal, and ennobling of Individual. The contribution of Mysticism; preparation for Christian eschatology. The contribution of Virgil; sympathy and sense of Duty. The contribution of Roman religion proper: (1) sane and orderly character of ritual, (2) practical character of Latin Christianity visible in early Christian writings, (3) a religious vocabulary, e.g. religio, pietas, sanctus, sacramentum. But all this is but a slight contribution; essential difference between Christianity and all that preceded it in Italy; illustration from the language of St. Paul | [452]-472 |
APPENDIX
| I. | On the Use of Huts or Booths in Religious Ritual | [473] |
| II. | Prof. Deubner's Theory of the Lupercalia | [478] |
| III. | The Pairs of Deities in Gellius | [481] |
| IV. | The Early Usage of the Words Ius and Fas | [486] |
| V. | The Worship of Sacred Utensils | [489] |
| INDEX | [491] |