Erika

Websites: Primary sources: Were i got my primary sources at... [|http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~natalieb/EarlyRome.htm#startprim] Another Website: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbookfull.html __**Primary sources:**__ 1) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/7Cnuma.html 2) http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/romrelig3.html 3) http://www.mircea-eliade.com/from-primitives-to-zen/099.html

__**Secondary Sources:**__ 1) http://www.unrv.com/culture/roman-religion.php Talk about the different gods that are in the webstie

2) http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/religion/ 3) http://library.thinkquest.org/28111/newpage1.htm 4) http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romel/html/religion.html 5) http://library.thinkquest.org/26907/religion.htm

__**My WORK Journal**__ 1) Discuss about our topic 2) look up information on religion and philosophy and posted urls about the information and topic 3) Seperate the topic so that two people research about philosophy and two people research about religon 4) Our gruop started to discuss if we were going to do a summary or outline 5) talking about the topic and writing down information about the topic 6) Writing a summary on the topic about religion 7) Going to start making PowerPoint 8) Working on the PowerPoint 9) Getting the finishing touches on the PowerPoint and game 10) Finished making the power point and Game 11) Practicing for our presentation 12) Practicing for the presentation 13) Practicing for the presentation

__**Summary**__ Roman religion was very in dept. The different types of that the religions the Romans. One main one was called Numa. This religion is about the different kings that have different responsibilities about the religons and have different aspects of organizing different things. Such as organizing festivals in the calendar also the kings orgnaze the presitly colleges which are colleges in which a person wanted to become a preist. They would appoint the first flamines, the most important preiests were jupitar, Mars, and Quirinus. This lead to the gods and godesses that the romans had. They belived in different gods and godesses, this was given to a peron depending in his/ her speicalties. Jupitar was to warshipp at a hilltop which meant that he was good at praying and would pray every day about the thought they had believe in. The next one was called the Saturn which means the god of crops. This shows that he/she was good at planting crops, and good at farming. Venus means the god of gardens. The person who planted and grew plants were good at gardening. Mars means god of agurcutre and war. A person who was useto being on land and fighting would be called mars because either the roman had a speicatly of fighting or making land and building up the economy. Minerva was the god of craftsman and their guilds. If he/she special;izaed in mking fabric/clothes or making any types of different desgins such as yarn,beads were considered craftsman. Vesta god of hearth. Diana and Herculies were both commence but to different gods. Diana commence to wood and the moon and Heculies commenced tibur. Mercury commenced to Cumae. Apollo was the god of healing. He/she specialized in healing different gods tha they belived in such as Cumae. All these god and godesses were passed down from generation to generation. The Romans also built temples to put the gods in and to worshipp them.

__**Information about religion**__ - Early Romans believed in a simple **//animism//** that there were spirits/powers, or //numina//, which surrounded all men. There were no temple/statues. The rites were clean and simple and they were practiced with an exactness believed pleasing to gods. On calendars, such old festivals were recorded with large letters. These were rural festivals, marking the year of the country people.

- Gods were imported to help

__Other Religous Facts__ The first temple was built by Etruscans for Jupiter, Juno and Minerva on the Capitoline Hill. Minerva later had her own temple on the Avetine Hill. Castor and Pollus were from Tusculum. Mercury, Castor and Pollux, Hercules, and Diana were of Greek origin. A famine in 493B.C., the Sibylline oracle at Cumae advised the adoption of the Greek Bacchus, Ceres, and Proserpina. In 432B.C., the temple of Apollo, the god of healing was adopted from Cumae. In 293B.C., the worship of Aesculapius, the god of medicine from Epidaurus was brought to the island of Tiber. The Asiatic //Magne Mater// (Cybele) was brought from Phrygia during the second Punic War. However, it was discontinued due to the orgiastic nature of her worship. This marked the beginning movement to Oriental religions. Over time, more and more Greek gods merged with Roman gods. The acquaintance with Greek myth, literature, and art made the identity complete.

-The Romans, happy to absorb and assimilate any culture they encountered thereby reaping the benefits of both its wealth and religious influence, were a mosaic of belief systems. Foreign gods and customs not only played major roles but were also given temples and priesthoods within Rome itself.