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Roman Religion
Religio Romana; the cult of the Roman state
c.750 BCE – c.400 CE · Classical Mediterranean · Revived / Reconstructed · Italy and the Roman empire
III. THE AXIAL AGE — c.900 – 200 BCE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.753 BCE Traditional founding of Rome.
- c.700–673 BCE Numa's reforms, as tradition has it.
- 390 BCE Gauls sack Rome; the failure is blamed on neglected ritual.
- 205 BCE The Magna Mater is imported from Anatolia on Sibylline advice during the war with Hannibal.
- 186 BCE The Senate violently suppresses the Bacchanalia — thousands executed. The template for later persecutions.
- 44 BCE Julius Caesar deified after death.
- 29 BCE onward Augustus restores temples and priesthoods and establishes the imperial cult.
- 64 CE Nero's persecution of Christians after the fire.
- 249–251, 303–311 CE Empire-wide persecutions under Decius and Diocletian, both organised around a requirement to sacrifice.
- 313 CE Edict of Milan legalises Christianity.
- 380 CE Edict of Thessalonica makes Nicene Christianity the state religion.
- 382 CE The Altar of Victory removed from the Senate house; Symmachus appeals for tolerance and Ambrose defeats him.
- 394 CE Theodosius bans public pagan rites; the Vestal fire is extinguished.
### Sources
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