Roman Religion and the Cult of Diana at Aricia Book

List of Maps and Figures     xi
Preface     xiii
Acknowledgments     xxiii
Abbreviations     xxvii
Grove and Goddess
The Sanctuary of Diana at Aricia to the Augustan Age     3
The Approach     3
The Site     7
From the Archaic Age to ca. 300 B.C.E.     10
The Transformation of the Sanctuary     14
The Wealth and Finances of the Sanctuary     19
The Sanctuary through the Late Republic     23
The End of the Republic and the Politicization of the Sanctuary     26
The Sanctuary in the Augustan Age     34
Octavian's "Arician Mother"     34
Apollo and Diana, Rome and Aricia     40
Octavian and the Bones of Orestes     41
The Sanctuary in Augustan Literature     48
Grattius and the Sacrifice     49
The Sanctuary in the Empire     55
The Century after Augustus     55
Statius and the Ides of August     60
From Trajan to the Third Century     63
The Closing of the Sanctuary     67
Diana: Her Name and Her Appearance     71
The Linguistic Evidence     71
Representations of Diana in the Sanctuary     75
Cult Statues     77
Diana as an Artemis Figure     80
Negotiation of Image and Symbol     82
The Nature of Transformation     85
The Grove, the Goddess, and the History of Early Latium     87
The Latin People and Diana     87
The Cato Fragment     88
Sacred Disarmament in the Forest     89
Turnus Herdonius and Tarquinius Superbus     90
The Dictator Latinus     94
Lex Arae Dianae in Aventino     95
Servius Tullius and the Aventine Cult of Diana     97
The Aftermath of the Foundation of the Aventine Cult     102
The Failure of Servius' Federal Cult     104
The Ides of August in Rome and Aricia     105
The Cato Inscription and the Politics of the Cult of Diana     108
Latin Diana in the Archaic Period: A Summary     109
The Many Faces of Diana     112
Diana: The Problem     112
The Nature of the Hunting Cult     114
The Moon and the Huntress     121
The Techne of Hunting: The Nets     125
Diana Trivia, Guardian of the Roads     128
Diana and the Underworld     131
The Triple Diana      134
Diana Lucina: Guardian of Women in Childbirth     135
Teaching and Training the Young     138
Diana as Victrix, Opifer, and Conservatrix     140
Diana and Sexuality     141
Diana: The Resolution     144
Fugitives and Kings, Greeks and Slaves
The Necessary Murderer     147
Frazer and the Rex Nemorensis     147
Wissowa     149
The Errors of Frazer and Wissowa     150
The Rex Nemorensis     153
The Ritual: Meeting the Challenge     155
Taking the Bough     159
The Tree     162
The Bough     164
The Combat     167
The Funeral     170
The Descent to the Underworld     175
Summary of the Ritual     177
The Evolution of the Meaning of the Rex Nemorensis     178
"We Are Fugitives"     185
Fugitive Slaves in the Latin World     186
Kings     195
Diana on the Aventine     200
Orestes and Iphigenia     201
The Madness of Orestes     205
Virbius, Hippolytus and Egeria     208
Virbius     208
Virbius and Hippolytus     209
Servius' Account     213
Virbius' Death     215
Virbius as Consort to Diana     219
Youth, Age, and Concealment     219
Egeria     222
Egeria in Latium     224
The Tears of Egeria     226
Egeria and the Exiles     227
Egeria and Birth     230
Virbius and Egeria     231
Healing and Ritual
Diana the Healer     235
Diana and Healing     235
Religious Healing and Hippocratic Medicine     236
Rationalist Treatments: Wounds     242
Rabies     245
Skin Diseases     246
Knowledge through Ritual     249
The Distinction between Rationalist Medicine and Sanctuary Medicine     252
Grattius' Cynegetica and Diana's Sanctuary     254
Ritual Healing and the Maniae     256
Sanctuary Medicine     257
The "Accursed Itch"     258
Sanctuary Medicine and the Humoral Theory of Disease     261
Diagnosis by Metaphor and Analogy     264
Making and Metaphors     267
The Theory of the Maniae in Its Therapeutic Application     269
At the Gates of the Underworld     271
Furor, the Maniae, and the Common Man     275
The Theory of Humors, Mysticism, and the Development of Italic Cults     277
Religious Healing in the Sanctuary     278
Conclusion: Diana and Her Worshippers     280
The Worshippers     280
Approaching the Sanctuary     282
Consulting the Goddess     285
What Did Ritual Healing Accomplish?     286
Judging Diana     289
The Goddess, Diana     290
Between Aricia and Rome     292
Appendix     297
Select Bibliography     303
Index Locorum     319
Index     329