Gods and men at Ostia. Port of Rome.
CNRS| N° d'inventaire | 22418 |
| Format | 14 x 21 |
| Détails | 295 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782271131270 |
The port of Rome, Ostia, located south of the mouth of the Tiber, constitutes an exceptional terrain for studying the religious life of an ancient city. Since the founding of the Roman colony at the end of the 4th century BC, gods and men coexisted in the city. Their common destiny would last until the last attestations of polytheistic cults at the end of the 5th century. A military port under the Republic, having a fundamental role in supplying the capital, from the 2nd century BC, Ostia is a city both particular and exemplary. It represents an extraordinary laboratory for those who wish to understand the cults during Antiquity: the communities and individuals practiced diverse and varied cults there, both "ancestral" and "foreign." The gods were the heart of the city, as the documentation shows, particularly for the first centuries of our era, when devotees of the gods, Jews and Christians, coexisted.
The port of Rome, Ostia, located south of the mouth of the Tiber, constitutes an exceptional terrain for studying the religious life of an ancient city. Since the founding of the Roman colony at the end of the 4th century BC, gods and men coexisted in the city. Their common destiny would last until the last attestations of polytheistic cults at the end of the 5th century. A military port under the Republic, having a fundamental role in supplying the capital, from the 2nd century BC, Ostia is a city both particular and exemplary. It represents an extraordinary laboratory for those who wish to understand the cults during Antiquity: the communities and individuals practiced diverse and varied cults there, both "ancestral" and "foreign." The gods were the heart of the city, as the documentation shows, particularly for the first centuries of our era, when devotees of the gods, Jews and Christians, coexisted.