Collegium septemviri epulones in Roman public religion

Academic aims of the project:

The project is one of the newest pieces of research on Roman religion in its citizenship and public aspects. It presents a contemporary approach to the analysed subject, based on an emic reading of the source materials in accordance with the principles of close reading. This approach aims to note the originality of the religious experience of Ancient Romans using the example of the activities of the college septemviri epulones. 

• analysis of the activities of the septemviri epulones college in the Roman public religion; 
• redefinition of the role of sacrifices in Roman religion;
• preparation of a dictionary of ritual terms in Roman religion;
• preparation of a prosoprographic list of the members of the college septemviri epulones; 
• analysis of the function of Jupiter in the public aspect of Roman religion.