The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic: An Introduction to the Study of the Religion of the Romans

· 1921

This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the underscore character as _italic_. Bold face type is delimited with the equals sign as =bold=. A word of explanation seems needed about the form this book has taken. Many years ago I became specially interested in the old Roman religion, chiefly, I think, through studying Plutarch’s _Quaestiones Romanae_, at a time when bad eyesight was compelling me to abandon a project for an elaborate study of all Plutarch’s works. The ‘scrappy’ character not only of the _Quaestiones_, but of all the material for the study of Roman ritual, suited weak eyes better than the continual reading of Greek text…

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