CLA233H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bacchanalia, Tertullian, Lucretius
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Group of chief priest in rome, 16 men in charge of religious cases and rituals. Member of a priestly college that interprets signs, especially based on the movements of birds. A civic position centered on where you were as a magistrate. Member of a priestly college that interprets prophecies and examines sacrificial entrails, especially the liver. Looks at omens e. g. the position of the liver. Civic role of 15 men that guarded and consulted the sibylline books. Asclepius: a book about famous men (shelton 408, helped with the plague that was ravaging rome in 293 bce. Bacchus: livy (shelton 435, suppression of the bacchanalia in 186 bce, elite romans portrayed them as drunks and wild as a way to suppress them. Philo (shelton 441: augustus had tolerance towards the jews, but his successors tended to persecute them. Suetonius (shelton 442: tiberius"s ban of foreign cults (egyptian and jewish) Suetonius (shelton 445: claudius"s expulsion of the jews from rome.
