Stage 32- Roman Religious Beliefs

Stage 32- Roman Religious Beliefs

​What do you remember from last night's reading?

Multiple Choice

Verum/Falsum: Romans typically only practiced one religion or belief system.

• Verum

• Falsum

Open Ended

Give one example of religious synthesis (the blending of two religious traditions) as seen in the reading or in our stories.

Multiple Choice

Which belief system appealed to soldiers because it exalted the ideas of loyalty and fraternity?

• Astrology/Divination

• Christianity

• Mithraism

• Roman State Religion

• Mystery Cults/Worship of Isis

Open Ended

Describe 2 characteristics that defined a mystery cult.

Mithras

• Several different versions of god

• Roman deity- imported to Rome from Asia Minor in 60s BC

• appealed to men/soldiers

• no women allowed

Multiple Choice

Which belief system advocated that man's goal should be virtue, not pleasure?

• Stoicism

• Christianity

• Mithraism

• Roman State Religion

• Mystery Cults/Worship of Isis

Multiple Choice

Which belief system had the fundamental principal of "do ut des?"

• Stoicism

• Christianity

• Mithraism

• Roman State Religion

• Mystery Cults/Worship of Isis

• lists of important religious observations and festivals

• often displayed publicly outside temples or government buildings

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Ancient Fasti

Open Ended

Besides serving as places of worship, describe one other function served by Temples in ancient Rome:

Multiple Select

Choose all members of the Capitoline Triad:

• Apollo

• Venus

• Juno

• Jupiter

• Minerva

Fill in the Blanks

Name one type of divination (how you interpreted the omens/what the gods were saying to you);