Jorg Rupke is Fellow in Religious Studies at the Max Weber Center at the University of Erfurt. He is author or editor of several books, including Religion of the Romans.

Introduction
1. The Background: Roman Religion of the Archaic and Early Republican Periods
2. Institutionalizing and Ordering Public Communication
3. Changes in Religious Festivals
4. Incipient Systematization of Religion in Second-Century Drama: Accius
5. Ritualization and Control
6. Writing and Systematization
7. The Pontifical Calendar and the Law
8. Religion and Divination in the Second Century
9. Religion in the Lex Ursonensis
10. Religious Discourses in the Second and First Centuries: Antiquarianism and Philosophy
11. Ennius's Fasti in Fulvius's Temple: Greek Rationality and Roman Tradition
12. Varro's tria genera theologiae: Crossing Antiquarianism and Philosophy
13. Cicero's Discourse on Religion
14. Greek Rationality and Roman Traditions in the Late Republic
Notes
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
Acknowledgments