Author: SYME, RONALD
Title: Some Arval Brethren
Description: Oxford University Press, 1980. Hardcover. ISBN: 0198148313. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Faint foxing to top of textblock. DJ has minor shelfwear. DJ spine is sunned. ; Arval Brethren (latin: Fratres Arvales) were a religious fraternity in ancient Rome who offered annual sacrifices to lares and gods to guarantee good harvests. The modern world knows them mainly for their stone-carved records of their oaths, rituals and sacrifices. ; 140 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0198148313 Roman Religion Paganism Augustus Caesar Roman History Rome Classical Greek & Roman Mystery Religions


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