Information and links on the Religio Romana

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Specifically Roman

Primary texts :

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla : This site contains links to Virgil's Aeneid, Georgics, and Eclogues; Ovid's Metamorphoses and other works; the Priapeia, Satyricon; and Meditations of Marcus Aurelius; as well as Greek works by Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Sophocles, Aesop, Aeschylus, and Plato's Dialogues; with links to Bullfinch Mythology and the Sibylline Oracles.

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/classics/ovid.fasti.html : Ovid's Fasti in Latin

http://www.geocities.com/soho/2923/sallustius1.html : Sallustius on sacrifices.

http://members.tripod.com/~diipetes/sallustius.htm : Sallustius' On the Gods

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/ambrose-sym.html : Symmachus on restoring the Altar of Victory to the Senate.

http://campus.northpark.edu/history/classics/sources/julian.html : Emperor Julian's Letter to Arsacius

http://www.goddess-athena.org/encyclopedia/friends/proclus/commentary_on_the_Timaeus_X.htm : Excerpts from Proclus' Commentary mainly dealing with the use of pagan prayer.

http://cosmopolis.com/texts/porphyry-on-images.html : Porphyry on the use of images.

http://www.kheper.auz.com/topics/neoplatonism/neoplatonism.htm : Selections from Proclus, Porphyry, and Iamblichus

http://www.goddess-athena.org/encyclopedia/rituals/hymns/proclus.htm : Proclus' Hymn to Minerva

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/resources/rhetoric/prog-lib.htm : Libanius' Progymnasmata

http://ccat.sas.upenn/jod/apuleius : Apuleius' Apology

Mythology :

Forum Romanum, Dictionary of Mythology : includes a genealogical chart, name meanings, and a picture index.  

Encyclopedia Mythica: A huge compendium of information on Graeco-Roman mythology ; also sections on a wide variety of other cultures.

http://www.bulfinch.org : Bullfinch's Mythology

Scholarship :

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/7339 : Roman funeral rites

http://www.dccc.edu/frr/HTML/Ouriania.htm : On the image of the Underworld from Homer to the Neoplatonists

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/1957/collsac.htm : The Sacerdotal Collegia (in Italian)

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/bmcrsearch?spaeth : Book review of "The Roman Goddess Ceres" by B. Stanley Spaeth, U. Texas Press, 1996

http://www.geocities.com/margali99maincom/templeofceres.html : 

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/astdiv : On ancient divination and astrology

http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/magic  : Classical traditions in magic

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/cyprus/3470/persec.htm : On the persecutions of pagans.

Picture files:

http://www.bowdoin.edu/dept/clas/arch102/index#topics : Villanovan burials, Lapis Niger, Heroon of Aeneas at Lanuvium, Sanctuary of Fortuna at Praeneste, and much more related material.

http://tulane.edu/lester/text/westernarchitect/rome/rome.html : On Roman temples

http://www.infoplease.lycos.com/ceb/world/A0861476.html : Roman temple in 1870 photos of Baalbeck, in French.

http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/types/temple.html : A number of temples from around the world, including Roman and Greek temples.

http://www.vicb.fsnet.co.uk/arc_roman_temples.htm 

Virtual temples :

Temple of Iuno Web site where visitors can leave public prayers to the Goddess

Temple of the Dioscuri (Castor and Polux) Web site where visitors can leave public prayers to the Dioscuri.

Eclectic/Greek

Practicioner's sites and organisations :

Biblioteca Arcana Greek and Roman pagan rituals, rites, festivals, hymns, and poems.

Stele, The Resources for neo-pagans following Greek or Roman traditions.  

The Home Page of Pallas Athena: Dedicated to the Athena/Minerva

The Shadow of Olympus: Another Hellenic pagan site with fascinating personal insights and an emphasis on Athena.

The Hellenic Ring: www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3604/ 

The Greek Gods in Ritual: www.widdershins.org/vol5iss3/03.htm 

Cheiron Hellenic Pagan Site: www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6670/index.html 

A Greek View:  http://members.tripod.com/Diipetes/hellenism.htm  

A Hiera Mysteria:  www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/3867/ 

Societas Hellenica Antiquariorum: A Greek reconstructionist organization based in Greece.

Thiasos Olympikos: home.pon.net/rhinoceroslodge/thiasos.htm 

Temple of Hecate Online:  www.pacificnet.net/~spectre/Temple/main.html 

Primary texts : 

http://web/uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth : Greek texts on various myths

Scholarship :

Goddess Worship in Ancient Greece: www.-unix.oit.umass.edu/~clit387/Worship.html 

Graeco-Roman Studies: http://religion.rutgers.edu/vri/grk_rom.html   

Graeco-Roman Information: www.paganpathways.net/index.php 

Early Greece:  www.earlygreece.com/ 

Roman Rites and Religion:  www.sibyllinewicca.org/lib_historical/lib_h_rome.htm 

Ancient Greek Links:  www.webcom.com/shownet/medea/grklink.html

On Eleusian Mysteries:

http://users.erols.com/nbeach/eleusis.htm
http://www.san.beck.org/eleusis-3.html
http://marlowe.wimsey.com/~rshand/streams/scripts/eleusis.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/3193
http://topanga.net/iopan/mystai/htm