Jorg Rupke is Fellow in Religious Studies at the Max Weber Center at the University of Erfurt. He is author or editor of several books, including Religion of the Romans.

"An erudite and fascinating book, and a very serious contribution to our understanding of the Roman republic."-Jeffrey Tatum, Victoria University of Wellington "This study is the most recent contribution to the area of Roman Republican religion by one of the most significant historians of that field in the 21st century. Drawing on the observations of Max Weber and Wolfgang Schluchter, Rupke presents a brilliant, erudite argument that Roman Republican religion evolved through a process of rationalization that began in the fourth century B.C.E. and culminated with the rise of the Principate in the first century B.C.E."-Choice

• Introduction1. The Background: Roman Religion of the Archaic and Early Republican Periods2. Institutionalizing and Ordering Public Communication3. Changes in Religious Festivals4. Incipient Systematization of Religion in Second-Century Drama: Accius5. Ritualization and Control6. Writing and Systematization7. The Pontifical Calendar and the Law8. Religion and Divination in the Second Century9. Religion in the Lex Ursonensis10. Religious Discourses in the Second and First Centuries: Antiquarianism and Philosophy11. Ennius's Fasti in Fulvius's Temple: Greek Rationality and Roman Tradition12. Varro's tria genera theologiae: Crossing Antiquarianism and Philosophy13. Cicero's Discourse on Religion14. Greek Rationality and Roman Traditions in the Late RepublicNotesBibliographyIndex LocorumGeneral IndexAcknowledgments

Jorg Rupke is Fellow in Religious Studies at the Max Weber Center at the University of Erfurt. He is author or editor of several books, including Religion of the Romans.

"An erudite and fascinating book, and a very serious contribution to our understanding of the Roman republic."-Jeffrey Tatum, Victoria University of Wellington "This study is the most recent contribution to the area of Roman Republican religion by one of the most significant historians of that field in the 21st century. Drawing on the observations of Max Weber and Wolfgang Schluchter, Rupke presents a brilliant, erudite argument that Roman Republican religion evolved through a process of rationalization that began in the fourth century B.C.E. and culminated with the rise of the Principate in the first century B.C.E."-Choice

• Introduction1. The Background: Roman Religion of the Archaic and Early Republican Periods2. Institutionalizing and Ordering Public Communication3. Changes in Religious Festivals4. Incipient Systematization of Religion in Second-Century Drama: Accius5. Ritualization and Control6. Writing and Systematization7. The Pontifical Calendar and the Law8. Religion and Divination in the Second Century9. Religion in the Lex Ursonensis10. Religious Discourses in the Second and First Centuries: Antiquarianism and Philosophy11. Ennius's Fasti in Fulvius's Temple: Greek Rationality and Roman Tradition12. Varro's tria genera theologiae: Crossing Antiquarianism and Philosophy13. Cicero's Discourse on Religion14. Greek Rationality and Roman Traditions in the Late RepublicNotesBibliographyIndex LocorumGeneral IndexAcknowledgments

Jorg Rupke is Fellow in Religious Studies at the Max Weber Center at the University of Erfurt. He is author or editor of several books, including Religion of the Romans.

"An erudite and fascinating book, and a very serious contribution to our understanding of the Roman republic."-Jeffrey Tatum, Victoria University of Wellington "This study is the most recent contribution to the area of Roman Republican religion by one of the most significant historians of that field in the 21st century. Drawing on the observations of Max Weber and Wolfgang Schluchter, Rupke presents a brilliant, erudite argument that Roman Republican religion evolved through a process of rationalization that began in the fourth century B.C.E. and culminated with the rise of the Principate in the first century B.C.E."-Choice

• Introduction1. The Background: Roman Religion of the Archaic and Early Republican Periods2. Institutionalizing and Ordering Public Communication3. Changes in Religious Festivals4. Incipient Systematization of Religion in Second-Century Drama: Accius5. Ritualization and Control6. Writing and Systematization7. The Pontifical Calendar and the Law8. Religion and Divination in the Second Century9. Religion in the Lex Ursonensis10. Religious Discourses in the Second and First Centuries: Antiquarianism and Philosophy11. Ennius's Fasti in Fulvius's Temple: Greek Rationality and Roman Tradition12. Varro's tria genera theologiae: Crossing Antiquarianism and Philosophy13. Cicero's Discourse on Religion14. Greek Rationality and Roman Traditions in the Late RepublicNotesBibliographyIndex LocorumGeneral IndexAcknowledgments