id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 18222 Carter, Jesse Benedict The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome .txt text/plain 48245 2138 66 contrasting the original deities of Rome with the new foreign gods, Rome was not yet a god of the state and politics, but merely the so in old Roman religion some phase of a god's activity, expressed in an gods, and with no desire to introduce rival deities, that the new cults the course of time the Roman state acknowledged this Tivoli cult of of foreign gods had begun to exist for the Romans, in the good old days were taken into the cult of the Roman state, were given temples in the the goddess Diana into the state-cult of Rome, where she was brought Poseidon to Rome he was identified with an old Roman water-god these temples were erected were really Greek gods under Roman names. Now that the old Roman gods had been changed into new-fangled Greek of family worship old Roman religion was dead. ./cache/18222.txt ./txt/18222.txt