Religio Romana
Contents
Basic Principles of Roman Religion
Calendar of Holidays and Festivals
Declaration of Roman Paganism
Legends of Rome
Priests and Priesthoods
Foreign Priesthoods
Rites and Rituals
Religion of the Home: a brief history
Roman Gods and Goddesses
Roman Philosophy
Roman Beliefs about the Afterlife
What We Mean by Pagan Reconstructionism
Why the Religio Romana is Important to Nova Roma
Links on Roman religion and related topics
Religio Romana
Contents
Basic Principles of Roman
Religion
Calendar of Holidays and
Festivals
Declaration of Roman Paganism
Legends of Rome
Priests and Priesthoods
Foreign Priesthoods
Rites and Rituals
Religion of the Home: a brief history
Roman Gods and Goddesses
Roman Philosophy
Roman Beliefs about the Afterlife
What We Mean by Pagan
Reconstructionism
Why the Religio Romana is Important to Nova
Roma
Links on Roman religion and related
topics
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We use the term "legends" rather than "myths" of
Rome because the word myth has a modern connotation of falsehood. In the modern parlance,
a myth is a story that is perhaps significant or relevant historically or culturally, but
is ultimately founded not in truth but in imagination. We take the view that the legends
of the earliest days of Rome's founding may not be completely accurate historically, but
neither are they complete inventions of the storyteller. They speak to us on a level
that ordinary histories cannot, and their impact is made even greater by the plausibility
they contain. With some notable exceptions, the legends of Rome are not tales of the Gods
(the complex tales of Greek legend were only grafted on to the Gods of the Romans later,
as the impact of Greek culture on Roman religion was felt), but tales of mortals. Men and
women who exemplify the ideals of the Roman Citizen (or who represent their antithesis)
are at the heart of these legends. Thus they are closer to the men and women who heard and
hear them, and embrace them as guideposts for their own lives.
- Aeneas and the survivors of Troy
- Hercules and Cacus
- Romulus and Remus and the founding of Rome
- The Rape of the Sabine Women
- Tarpeia the Traitoress
- The Rape of Lucretia
- The Horatii and the Curiatii
- Horatius Cocles at the Bridge
- How Scaevola Lost His Hand
- Cloelia and the Hostages
- The Story of the Belly and the Limbs
- Appius and Verginia
- Coriolanus and the Siege of Rome
- Claudia and the Magna Mater
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