J.A. North taught Greek and Roman History in the Department of History at UCL, from 1963, and became Professor and Head of Department in 1992. He retired as Emeritus Professor in 2003. From 2014 to 2016, North was the Director of the Institute of Classical Studies. From an early stage in his career, North's research centred on the Religious History of Rome from the early Republic onwards; later, on the relations between pagan religious society under the Empire and the emergence of the Christian religion; more recently still, on the religious activities of Roman slaves and freed slaves.

The volume captures a moment in time in the debates on Roman Republican religion, and while some aspects of that moment are regrettable, other aspects are very much to be appreciated for moving the discourse to the place where it is now. Scholars of Roman religion have much work to do and much to look forward to. It is a delight to think about what the next volume of collected articles along these lines might look like.

• 1: Christopher Smith: Dead Dogs and Rattles: Time, Space, and Ritual Sacrifice in Iron Age Latium 2: John Scheid: The Priest and the Magistrate: Reflections on the Priesthoods and Public Law at the End of the Republic 3: Mary Beard: Acca Larentia Gains a Son: Myths and Priesthood 4: Jörg Rüpke: Religion and War: On the relationship of a society's religious and political systems 5: Andreas Bendlin: Not the One nor the Many; A Pragmatic Approach to Religious Behaviour in a Polytheistic Society: The Example of Rome 6: John North: Action and Ritual in Roman Historians: Or How Horatius Held the Door-Post 7: Olivier de Cazanove: Rites and Practices of Warfare in Italy between Romans and Samnites: Going under the Yoke and the Samnite Legio Linteata 8: Rebecca Flemming: Festus and the Role of Women in Roman Religion 9: Denis Feeney: Interpreting Sacrificial Ritual in Roman Poetry: Disciplines and their Models 10: Daniel Gargola: The Ritual of Centuriation: Frontinus, Hyginus Gromaticus and Centuriation 11: Filippo Coarelli: The Lucus Pisaurensis and the Romanisation of the Ager Gallicus 12: Filippo Coarelli: Rome and the Great Places of Worship in Italy 13: Mary Beard: Cicero and Divination. The Formation of a Latin Discourse 14: Alfred Schmid: The Peace of Augustus, The Equinox and the Centre of the World

J.A. North taught Greek and Roman History in the Department of History at UCL, from 1963, and became Professor and Head of Department in 1992. He retired as Emeritus Professor in 2003. From 2014 to 2016, North was the Director of the Institute of Classical Studies. From an early stage in his career, North's research centred on the Religious History of Rome from the early Republic onwards; later, on the relations between pagan religious society under the Empire and the emergence of the Christian religion; more recently still, on the religious activities of Roman slaves and freed slaves.

The volume captures a moment in time in the debates on Roman Republican religion, and while some aspects of that moment are regrettable, other aspects are very much to be appreciated for moving the discourse to the place where it is now. Scholars of Roman religion have much work to do and much to look forward to. It is a delight to think about what the next volume of collected articles along these lines might look like.

• 1: Christopher Smith: Dead Dogs and Rattles: Time, Space, and Ritual Sacrifice in Iron Age Latium 2: John Scheid: The Priest and the Magistrate: Reflections on the Priesthoods and Public Law at the End of the Republic 3: Mary Beard: Acca Larentia Gains a Son: Myths and Priesthood 4: Jörg Rüpke: Religion and War: On the relationship of a society's religious and political systems 5: Andreas Bendlin: Not the One nor the Many; A Pragmatic Approach to Religious Behaviour in a Polytheistic Society: The Example of Rome 6: John North: Action and Ritual in Roman Historians: Or How Horatius Held the Door-Post 7: Olivier de Cazanove: Rites and Practices of Warfare in Italy between Romans and Samnites: Going under the Yoke and the Samnite Legio Linteata 8: Rebecca Flemming: Festus and the Role of Women in Roman Religion 9: Denis Feeney: Interpreting Sacrificial Ritual in Roman Poetry: Disciplines and their Models 10: Daniel Gargola: The Ritual of Centuriation: Frontinus, Hyginus Gromaticus and Centuriation 11: Filippo Coarelli: The Lucus Pisaurensis and the Romanisation of the Ager Gallicus 12: Filippo Coarelli: Rome and the Great Places of Worship in Italy 13: Mary Beard: Cicero and Divination. The Formation of a Latin Discourse 14: Alfred Schmid: The Peace of Augustus, The Equinox and the Centre of the World

J.A. North taught Greek and Roman History in the Department of History at UCL, from 1963, and became Professor and Head of Department in 1992. He retired as Emeritus Professor in 2003. From 2014 to 2016, North was the Director of the Institute of Classical Studies. From an early stage in his career, North's research centred on the Religious History of Rome from the early Republic onwards; later, on the relations between pagan religious society under the Empire and the emergence of the Christian religion; more recently still, on the religious activities of Roman slaves and freed slaves.

The volume captures a moment in time in the debates on Roman Republican religion, and while some aspects of that moment are regrettable, other aspects are very much to be appreciated for moving the discourse to the place where it is now. Scholars of Roman religion have much work to do and much to look forward to. It is a delight to think about what the next volume of collected articles along these lines might look like.

• 1: Christopher Smith: Dead Dogs and Rattles: Time, Space, and Ritual Sacrifice in Iron Age Latium 2: John Scheid: The Priest and the Magistrate: Reflections on the Priesthoods and Public Law at the End of the Republic 3: Mary Beard: Acca Larentia Gains a Son: Myths and Priesthood 4: Jörg Rüpke: Religion and War: On the relationship of a society's religious and political systems 5: Andreas Bendlin: Not the One nor the Many; A Pragmatic Approach to Religious Behaviour in a Polytheistic Society: The Example of Rome 6: John North: Action and Ritual in Roman Historians: Or How Horatius Held the Door-Post 7: Olivier de Cazanove: Rites and Practices of Warfare in Italy between Romans and Samnites: Going under the Yoke and the Samnite Legio Linteata 8: Rebecca Flemming: Festus and the Role of Women in Roman Religion 9: Denis Feeney: Interpreting Sacrificial Ritual in Roman Poetry: Disciplines and their Models 10: Daniel Gargola: The Ritual of Centuriation: Frontinus, Hyginus Gromaticus and Centuriation 11: Filippo Coarelli: The Lucus Pisaurensis and the Romanisation of the Ager Gallicus 12: Filippo Coarelli: Rome and the Great Places of Worship in Italy 13: Mary Beard: Cicero and Divination. The Formation of a Latin Discourse 14: Alfred Schmid: The Peace of Augustus, The Equinox and the Centre of the World