Special Lecture :
"Death and Life View of Ancient Roman People and Its Transformation"

Lecturer : Prof. John North (London University, University College of London, Department of history)

• 1. Priests and Law in Republican Rome
  
  November 7,2005 17:00-18:30
  at 314 lecture room, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo
  How did the religious law of Rome relate to the constitution as conceived in the middle republic? What part did the priests play in political life.
  
  
  
• 2. Cicero and Republican Divination
  
  November 9,2005 17:00-18:30
  at 214 lecture room, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo
  What is Cicero's argument in his On Divination and how does it illuminate his attitude to the religious life of his time?
  
  
• 3. Caesar at the Lupercalia of 44 BCE
  
  November 11,2005 17:00-18:30
  at 214 lecture room, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo
  How did Caesar's changes to the ritual of the Lupercalia relate to the overall meaning of the festival? In what ways were festivals important to the major political figures? How did they express attitudes towards the past and towards the ancestors of living Romans?
  
  
• 4. The Underground Basilica at the Porta Maggiore
  
  November 15,2005 17:00-18:30
  at 214 lecture room, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo
  The remnant of a dissident sect in the first century CE, as reflected in their meeting house? The ideas about life and death that they were seeking to express.
  
  
• 5. Choice, Chance and Change in the History of Pagan Religions
  
  November 17,2005 16:00-18:00
  at 215 lecture room, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo
  The general development of Roman paganism in the imperial period. The impact of competition with other religious movements., including changing atttudes to deaqth and salvation.