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The cultural sphere is undoubtedly formalized in the ideal polis as proposed in the Laws, insofar as certain behaviours that are normally not subject to any control are regulated and sanctioned. Noack analyses three preludes: preludes to marriage (VI 772d5-774c2), preludes to rules pertaining to finding and obtaining treasures, which relates to the concept of inheritance (XI 913a1-914a5), and, thirdly, testaments (XI 922d4-8). Through these chosen examples, Noack argues that the concept of homo economicus in the NIE-that people are primarily interested in maximizing their personal benefit (see p. 78)-can be compared with the equally vague concept of pleasure in the Laws (cf. II 664b-c: a life of pleasure and a life of virtue are the same) as the basis for a person's decision making. However, the preludes to the laws in the Laws are mainly ethical rules, and they override the cost-benefit calculation and encourage citizens to take actions that run counter to their maximization of benefits-such as not accepting one's monetary inheritance. This argument does not solve the problematic "pleasure principle" in the Laws but, all in all, the NIE is an interesting tool for analysing the complexities of the many quite curious stipulations in the longest work of Plato's oeuvre.
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Rome matters. Roman religion is, basically, the religion of one of the hundreds of Mediterranean city states. Many features of this type of territorially bound religion, centred around a politically independent community, characterise Roman religion down to the end of antiquity. However, Roman cults, gods, iconography, rituals, texts, were exported to many places throughout the Roman Empire. A change of the point of view produces similarly ambivalent results. Many of the religious traditions or concepts that attracted people in Rome originated outside of Rome and were shared by many non-Romans. At the same time, even the major religious traditions of antiquity gained distinct features at Rome and these Roman varieties informed developments outside Rome. After all, Rome was a capital, politically for the Imperium Romanum, religiously not only for the cult of the Capitoline triad, but for Isis or Christianity as well. It is one of the many attractions of the theme of “Roman religion” that in dealing with the traditions of a metropolis (and its growing “hinterland”) we are able to look into transformations reaching far beyond. At the same time we are reminded of one of the truths of modern globalisation: place and local culture matters. Religion matters. Ancient religion is not longer the object of – at best – antiquarian research, interested in “Altertümer” and pre-rational behaviour, i. e. the European exotic. With the cultural and the following “turns,” religious institutions, signs and practices, religious mentalities and language, have come to the centre of mainstream historical and literary studies. Thus, analysis of religion itself can no longer be handled as an isolated sector of culture but has to be contextualized within its cultural, social, and economic setting and has to be analysed for its political function and its use in legitimating power or resistance. Aims The volume aims to help its readers - put the manifold religious symbols, discourses, practices, which they encounter in literally every field of ancient studies, into a larger framework; - offer a broad range of methodological approaches to seemingly intransigent phenomena; the presuppositions and limits of these approaches will be made explicit; - offer basic information about the most important religious symbols and institutions; and - attempt at coherent narratives, yet not to formulate new orthodoxies, but rather to suggest that narrative is an important form of historical explanation and a didactically useful tool.
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Edizioni Quasar e s t r a t t o © Roma 2007, Edizioni Quasar di Severino Tognon srl, Finito di stampare nel mese di settembre 2007 presso la Arti grafiche La Moderna, via di Tor Cervara 171 -Roma Questa pubblicazione è stampata con i contributi del Dipartimento di Filologia greca e latina dell'Università di Roma «La Sapienza» e del Di par ti men to di Antichità e tradizione classica dell'Università di Roma «Tor Vergata» e s t r a t t o Manuela Giordano