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W_1_11 — Roman Religion, Augury, and Imperial Cult
Roman religion was not a personal faith system but a civic technology — a complex apparatus of ritual obligations, priestly colleges, and divinatory techniques designed to maintain the pax deorum ("peace of the gods") up
C_1_07 — Hero's Journey and the Monomyth
Joseph Campbell's "Hero's Journey" (1949) proposes that the world's mythological narratives share a single underlying structure — the monomyth — in which a hero departs from the ordinary world, undergoes initiatory trial
B_5_04 — Euhemerism and Historical Figures Behind Mythological Beings
Euhemerism is the interpretive method named after Greek mythographer Euhemerus of Messene (~300 BCE), who argued in his Sacred History (Hiera Anagraphe) that the gods of Greek religion were originally human kings and war
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