Croyances et rites dans la Rome Antique. - BAYET, J.,
KORTE INHOUD
'Our task is to understand as well as to analyse.' This volume consists of fifteen papers by the late Jean Bayet on ancient religious topics, mainly, but not exclusively, Roman, published between 1935 and 1961. As many of them appeared in less familiar or accessible journals everyone interested in the history of Roman religion or indeed in Roman history itself will welcome the appearance of this important collection here assembled by four of Bayet's former pupils. B., author of 'L'Histoire politique et psychologique de la religion romaine', as well as diverse papers on Latin literature, was a disciple of Franz Cumont, a friend of Georges Dumézil and a neo-anthropologist of the Lévy-Bruhl school. Consequently he is less concerned with the externals of religion than with its more intimate and personal aspects. In particular he is constantly at pains to emphasize the continuing vitality of primitive beliefs connected with determinism and causality which survived among the Romans and proved stubbornly resistant t...
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Parijs, 1971. 1st ed. 384p. Paperback. Nice copy. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: BAYET, J.,] [Uitgever: Payot] [Jaar: 1971] [Titel: Croyances et rites dans la Rome Antique.]
