Want to know what the future has in store for richardflynn.net? Then come and look at the βeta version of the site I’ve been developing. Come and poke around, trying things out, and please, send feedback! I don’t yet know when the new site will be launched definitively, but it’ll be over the course of the next few months. (Written 15th April 2008)
To what extent was it a government-organized affair? Consider issues like the regular use of formulae of refusal, offically sponsored calendars, prohibition on the cult of governors, etc.
Is it hopeless for us to try to understand the feelings involved?
What difference did it make that the emperor was also pontifex maximus?
[Due Tuesday 1.v.2007 Complete!]
Can we—should we—try to write a special history of women’s religion? Is it true to say that there were more rituals of transition (rites de passage) for women than for men? How might religion have framed sexual politics in the Roman Empire?
What sorts of deities did women worship, how, and why? Distinguish […]
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