embodied in a _pagus_. The house as the religious centre
of the _familia_; its holy places. Vesta, Penates,
Genius, and the spirit of the doorway. The _Lar
familiaris_ on the land. Festival of the Lar belongs to
the religion of the _pagus_: other festivals of the
_pagus_. _Religio terminorum._ Religion of the
household: marriage, childbirth, burial and cult of the
dead 68-91

LECTURE V

THE CALENDAR OF NUMA

Beginnings of the City-state: the _oppidum_. The
earliest historical Rome, the city of the four regions;
to this belongs the surviving religious calendar. This
calendar described; the basis of our knowledge of early
Roman religion. It expresses a life agricultural,
political, and military. Days of gods distinguished from
days of man. Agricultural life the real basis of the
calendar; gradual effacement of it. Results of a fixed
routine in calendar; discipline, religious confidence.
Exclusion from it of the barbarous and grotesque.
Decency and order under an organising priestly authority
92-113

LECTURE VI

THE DIVINE OBJECTS OF WORSHIP

Sources of knowledge about Roman deities. What did the
Romans themselves know about them? No personal deity in
the religion of the family. Those of the City-state are
_numina_, marking a transition from animism to
polytheism. Meaning of _numen_. Importance of names,
which are chiefly adjectival, marking functional
activity. Tellus an exception. Importance of priests in
development of _dei_. The four great Roman gods and
their priests: Janus, Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus.
Characteristics of each of these in earliest Rome. Juno
and the difficulties she presents. Vesta 114-144

LECTURE VII

THE DEITIES OF THE EARLIEST RELIGION:
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS

No temples in the earliest Rome; meaning of _fanum, ara,
lucus, sacellum_. No images of gods in these places,
until end of regal period. Thus deities not conceived as
persons. Though masculine and feminine they were not
married pairs; Dr. Frazer's opinion on this point.
Examination of his evidence derived from the _libri
sacerdotum_; meaning of Nerio Martis. Such combinations
of names suggest forms or manifestations of a deity's