Religion 2

Question 1

Religion and politics

Answer 1

Priests and politicians - same class and often same people.
Magistrates rather than priests perform the many rites which are connected with political activities.

Question 2

Religious feuds = political feuds

Answer 2

Early days - plebeians vs. patricians
Patricians claim monopoly on religious office and expertise
Political effect - what is interpreted ass sanctioned by gods can be claimed as the correct policy

Question 3

Lex Ogulnia 300 BC

Answer 3

Gave plebeians designated places in the colleges of pontiffs and augurs.
The patrician reaction was that it was a contamination of the state.

Question 4

Religion and politics in the late republic

Answer 4

Individuals used to endorse their own political actions

The quarrel of Cicero and Clodius.

Question 5

Quarrel of Cicero and Clodius

Answer 5

56 - Cicero interprets the haruspices’ responses as referring to Clodius’ profanation of Bona Dea. Clodius says they refer to Cicero destroying the shrine to liberty built on the site of his house