LIVING LIKE AN ANCIENT ROMAN RELIGION BEYOND STATE SACRIFICES
A Roman relief depicting several men preparing for a sacrifice (restraining a bull and sheep) that was part of the Suovetaurilia. Roman state religion involved increasingly-elaborate public displays of piety at large temple complexes. Most Romans, however, would not have participated in such sacrifices.
© CREDIT THISIt is often said that Roman religion was a civic affair that had little need for individual belief, that it was a transactional relationship by which the gods protected and aided a city in exchange for worship. The fact that individual piety was not needed to perform religious
