The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus

"The Religious Experience of the Roman People" by W. Warde Fowler is a lecture series examining the religious practices and beliefs of ancient Romans from their origins to the reign of Augustus. This book explains the growth of Roman religious structures and their relationships with Roman society, laws, and history. The author aims to reveal older instincts and beliefs that formed Rome's spiritual landscape, while acknowledging the difficulty of finding narratives from early times because of limited texts and Greek influences on Roman ideas, setting the stage for examining Roman spirituality, its connection to farming, family life, and the rules of the state.