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Acta Arvalia

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maintained by priests to assure that the correct divinity was invoked in public rituals. What appears to be a gerundive form would be unusual, though not unique to these four deities. Most
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of participating members, the name of the place where sacrifices occurred, and specific dates. They are an important source for ancient Roman
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that demarcated the official confines of the city in earliest times, the Arvales emerged from obscurity toward the end of the
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Though "the richness of details and the abundance of the epigraphical corpus remain unexplained" (Rüpke 2004:36).
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preserve the names of four "functional goddesses" that are otherwise unknown. They were to be invoked for a
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Romulus et ses frères: Le collège des frères arvales, modèle du culte public dans la Rome des empereurs
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are lacking: the first instance of a Latin hymn text, the famous and incomprehensibly archaic
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and a useful one for the study of Rome's distinctive archaic religious traditions. Actual
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Rituals in Ink: A Conference on Religion and Literary Production in Ancient Rome
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Les frères arvales: recrutement et origine sociale sous les Julio-Claudiens
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as an elite group, to judge from the status of their known members in the
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Quinti Septimi Florentis Tertulliani 'De Anima'" (Brill, 2010), p. 444.
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Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie
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were inscribed in marble tablets fastened to the walls of the
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Fragments of the inscriptions were first recovered by
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thought that perhaps the names were addressed to the
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document routine rituals and special occasions, the
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Index

Arval Brothers (Arvales fratres)
sodalitas
ancient Roman religion
Temple of Dea Dia
grove
Magliana Vecchia
Tiber
Monte delle Piche
early Latin
Varro
Jörg Rüpke
vota
prosopography
liturgies
Carmen Arvale
Wilhelm Henzen
pomerium
Roman Republic
Augustan period
piaculum
gerundives
W.H. Roscher
indigitamenta
lists of Roman deities
theonyms
active
agent nouns
passive
Hendrik Wagenvoort
numen

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