Religions of Rome Volume 1 A History Author:Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life in Rome, from the foundation of the city to its rise to world empire and its conversion to Christianity. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the firs... more »t centuries of the Christian era.« less