Roman Religion and Cults on the Danube Limes in Serbia
Abstract
Among different spheres of daily life led by Roman soldiers in the forts along the
Danube Limes, one of the important ones was the sphere of spiritual culture, beliefs
and religion. Although with the process of Romanisation, the official pantheon of
Roman deities was introduced to the indigenous population, with the building and
development of the defence frontier system on the Danube and Roman legions and
auxiliary units who were stationed there, came soldiers of different origin and provenience,
who brought with them their own religious beliefs and deities. Epigraphic
and archaeological monuments found in the Danube Limes localities testify to the
degree of acceptance or resistance of the autochthonous inhabitants towards different
Roman, Hellenised and Oriental cults and show some very interesting examples of
syncretism of the mentioned cults with unknown, indigenous gods and goddesses.
Keywords:
Danube Limes / Serbia / Roman cults / Army / Fortifications / Imperial cultSource:
Vivere Militare Est : From Populus to Emperors - Living on the Frontier, 2018, 1, 169-196Publisher:
- Belgrade : Institute of Archaeology
Funding / projects:
- Romanization, urbanization and transformation of urban centres of civil, military and residential character in Roman provinces on territory of Serbia (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-177007)
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Institution/Community
Археолошки институт / Institute of ArchaeologyTY - CHAP AU - Gavrilović Vitas, Nadežda M. PY - 2018 UR - http://rai.ai.ac.rs/handle/123456789/398 AB - Among different spheres of daily life led by Roman soldiers in the forts along the Danube Limes, one of the important ones was the sphere of spiritual culture, beliefs and religion. Although with the process of Romanisation, the official pantheon of Roman deities was introduced to the indigenous population, with the building and development of the defence frontier system on the Danube and Roman legions and auxiliary units who were stationed there, came soldiers of different origin and provenience, who brought with them their own religious beliefs and deities. Epigraphic and archaeological monuments found in the Danube Limes localities testify to the degree of acceptance or resistance of the autochthonous inhabitants towards different Roman, Hellenised and Oriental cults and show some very interesting examples of syncretism of the mentioned cults with unknown, indigenous gods and goddesses. PB - Belgrade : Institute of Archaeology T2 - Vivere Militare Est : From Populus to Emperors - Living on the Frontier T1 - Roman Religion and Cults on the Danube Limes in Serbia EP - 196 SP - 169 VL - 1 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_398 ER -
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Gavrilović Vitas, N. M.. (2018). Roman Religion and Cults on the Danube Limes in Serbia. in Vivere Militare Est : From Populus to Emperors - Living on the Frontier Belgrade : Institute of Archaeology., 1, 169-196. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_398
Gavrilović Vitas NM. Roman Religion and Cults on the Danube Limes in Serbia. in Vivere Militare Est : From Populus to Emperors - Living on the Frontier. 2018;1:169-196. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_398 .
Gavrilović Vitas, Nadežda M., "Roman Religion and Cults on the Danube Limes in Serbia" in Vivere Militare Est : From Populus to Emperors - Living on the Frontier, 1 (2018):169-196, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rai_398 .