By Eric M. Orlin
The luck and gentle functioning of the Roman Republic trusted a cautious balancing of the pursuits of the person and the pursuits of the commonwealth. This paintings examines the method wherein new temples have been vowed, equipped, and devoted as a manner of analyzing key positive aspects of the interrelated political and non secular platforms of Republican Rome. It questions prior scholarship on numerous issues, suggesting that the Senate, and never simply person generals, performed an important function within the development of latest temples and emphasizing the excessive measure of cooperation among the senate and its magistrates. The capability through which the Romans erected new temples sheds vital gentle at the courting among person initiative and collective accountability in Republican Rome.
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34 According to the literary tradition, the kings of Rome had built temples to the following deities: Jupiter Feretrius, Jupiter Stator, Vesta, Janus, Saturn, Pallor and Pavor, Jupiter Capitolinus, Diana, and Fortuna. 35 The first temple vowed under the Republie was the temple of Castor, which was built in the middle of the Forum, near the Temple of Vesta and the spring of Juturna. 36 For the next sixty years this was the sole temple in Rome, as far as we know, with any aspect devoted to healing.
T h e assumption made by most scholars is that the loss of Livy's history for the years 292219 ־is responsible for our lack of knowledge about many of these temples. 42). 29 In one case our sources give a clear answer: the temple of Concordia, vowed by Cn. 19). For the other cases, however, we are left with speculation. T h e temple of Faunus was built with money collected from the pecuarii; it could either thank the patron of the flocks for his help in bringing these shepherds to heel, or it could have been a request for his help when the aediles set out to do so.
Following a general's vow in battle. 63 In the case of Postumius's vow, his promises may have served a dual purpose: a reward for past successes, but also to offer a further incentive to sack the enemy's camp. T h e propitiatory and gratulatory aspects could thus be represented in a single vow. 2). 46. 8. 7: in ipso discrimine quo templa deis immortalibus voveri mos erat Iovi Victori, si legiones hostium judisset, pocillum mulsi priusquam temetum biberet. . 62 tion, a vow not recorded anywhere else.