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ROMAN RELIGION

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 577 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROMAN See also:RELIGION . In tracing the See also:history of the religion of the Roman See also:people we are not, as in the See also:case of See also:Greece, dealing with See also:separate, though interacting, developments in a number of See also:independent communities, but with a single community which won its way to the headship first of See also:Latium, then of See also:Italy and finally of a See also:European See also:empire. But this very fact of its ever-extending See also:influence, coupled with an See also:absence of dogmatism in belief, which made it at all times ready and even anxious to adopt See also:foreign customs and ideas, gave its religion a constantly shifting and broadening See also:character, so that it is difficult to determine the See also:original essentials. By the See also:time when Latin literature begins, the genuine Roman religion had already been overlaid by foreign cults and modes of thought, by the classical See also:period it was—except in formal observance—practically buried and to a large extent fossilized.

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