The Religious Experience of the Roman People: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Religious Experience of the Roman People, credited to W. Warde Fowler, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Religious Experience of the Roman People by W. Warde Fowler. Read in English by Kazbek; Owlivia; KHand; Florence; andybeddy; Ellaqyint; ArturoJR17 ; mleigh A series of lectures delivered by Professor Fowler at Edinburgh University for a public audience, concerning the development and decay of the religion of the Roman City-state. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Religious Experience of the Roman People
• Author credits: W. Warde Fowler
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 15:22:23

Catalogue topics

• religion
• Roman

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Lecture I - Introductory — 56:10
2. 02 - Lecture II - On the Threshold of Religion: Survivals — 37:17
3. 03 - Lecture III - On the Threshold of Religion: Magic — 35:50
4. 04 - Lecture IV - The Religion of the Family — 43:42
5. 05 - Lecture V - The Calendar of Numa — 43:37
6. 06 - Lecture VI - The Divine Objects of Worship — 49:32
7. 07 - Lecture VII - The Deities of the Earliest Religion: General Characteristics — 42:22
8. 08 - Lecture VIII - Ritual of the Ius Divinum — 58:19
9. 09 - Lecture IX - Ritual (Continued) — 46:17
10. 10 - Lecture X - First Arrival of New Cults in Rome — 48:32
11. 11 - Lecture XI - Contact of the Old and New in Religion — 46:32
12. 12 - Lecture XII - The Pontifices and Secularisation of Religion — 36:38
13. 13 - Lecture XIII - The Augurs and the Art of Divination — 36:20
14. 14 - Lecture XIV - The Hannibalic War — 40:50
15. 15 - Lecture XV - After the Hannibalic War — 46:52
16. 16 - Section XVI - Greek Philosophy and Roman Religion — 36:42
17. 17 - Lecture XVII - Mysticism - Ideas of a Future Life — 39:10
18. 18 - Lecture XVIII - Religious Feelings in the Poems of Virgil — 55:00
19. 19 - Lecture XIX - The Augustan Revival — 48:21
20. 20 - Lecture XX - Conclusion — 35:17
21. 21 - Appendix I - On the Use of Huts or Booths in Religious Ritual — 10:41
22. 22 - Appendix II - Professor Deubner's Theory of the Lupercalia — 5:51
23. 23 - Appendix III - The Pairs of Deities in Gellius xiii 23 — 12:12
24. 24 - Appendix IV - Ius and Fas — 7:22

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