This book is not a comprehensive survey of all major aspects of Roman religious history spanning one thousand years. Rather, it is a collection of six studies that are bound together by a single analytical theme: namely, time. Yet, in the process of delving into these six different topics the study surveys a large portion of Roman religious history in a representative fashion, from earliest times to the end of the ancient world and the triumph of Christianity.
Gary Forsythe is Associate Professor of Ancient History, Texas Tech University. He is the author of A Critical History of Early Rome (2005) and of The Historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the Roman Annalistic Tradition (1994), as well as numerous articles and reviews.