Household Gods: Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome by Alexandra Sofroniew

Household Gods: Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome

Alexandra Sofroniew

160 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction classics history informative slow-paced
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Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides official worship in rural sacred areas and at temples in towns, the ancients kept household shrines with statuettes of different deities that could...

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