![]() ![]() ![]() Lipka's primary focus is on official Roman religion, and thus he has little to say about popular or private conceptions of Roman gods, and thus little to say about much of the population of Rome. Using John Scheid's 1 four-part thematic structure of Roman religion-space, time, ritual, actors (whom Lipka calls "personnel)", and adding his own two, functions and iconography-to focus entirely on how these constituent concepts can be used to define how the gods were conceived by Romans, the author attempts to create a "more general concept of 'god'" (8) than has previously been attempted. His ambition is "to fill a gap that appears to have existed already in Wissowa's seminal work (which took for granted the naming of the concept of "god") and was from there bequeathed to modern approaches of 'new historians' and 'sociologists' alike" (9). Quinn, California State Polytechnic University, Californiaīooks dealing with Roman gods are legion but none have approached the topic quite like Michael Lipka has. ![]() Religions of the Graeco-Roman World, 167. Michael Lipka, Roman Gods: A Conceptual Approach. ![]()
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