1 Earliest Rome

10.4d(iii) & (iv); tombs 4.13; see also death
and after-life and funeral feast
Cacu(s) 7.1c
Caecus, see Claudius
Caesar (Gaius Julius Caesar, consuls B.C.,
dictatorafter 49 B.c.): coins 9.2b; divine
honours 9.2b; festivals commemorating 3.5; in
Forum of Augustus 4.2a; and Jews 12.6c(ii);
and Lupercalia 5.2b; portents at death 13.2; as
priest 8.5a; see also Index of Sources
calendar 1.2; ch. 3 (passim)
camillus {camilli) (priestly attendant) 4.3a & b,
6.1b
Capitolium 1.9b, 9.1a, 9.5d; of colonia 10.2c
Castor (and Pollux) 1.7b, 2.Id, 13.3; temple of
4.7
catacombs, Jewish 12.6d
Cerialia (April 19) 3.3a; 3.3b; 3.3d
Christianity 12.7; buildings and cult places 4.15;
12.7f(iv); critique of Mithraism 12.5e,
12.7a(i); critique of pagan religion 2. Id, 2.2c,
5.2e, 6.7a, 6.8a, 12.7a, 8.10a, 13.6, 13.8,
13.9; under Constantine 11.13; demons 12.7a;
Donatism 11.13b; élite involvement 12.7c(ii)
& (iii); gnostic 12.7e(i) & (iv); god 2.10 b &
c; and Judaism 12.7b(i), 12.7e(iii);
Manichaeism 11.12; membership 11.11c,
12.7c; Montanism 7.6b, 12.7f(iii); Naassene
movement 12.7e(iv); pagan critique of 2.10 b
& c, 9.6d, 11.1 lc & d; pluralism 7.6b,
12.7a(i), 12.7e; response to pagan critique
2.10c, 9.6d; and Greek philosophy 12.7e(v);
rituals of 12.7d(i); and animal sacrifice 6.8;
Sibylline tradition in 7.5b; slave involvement
12.7c(i); spread of 11.11, 12.7b, 12.7c(ii);
Valentinian movement 12.7e(ii);
see also Christians andpersecution of
Christians
Christians 12.7; bishops 7.6b (intro); 12.7b(ii),
12.7c(iii); martyrdom of 7.9b, 11.11a, 12.7f,
13.8; see also Christianity ^^persecution of
Christians
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero, consulGb B.c.): as
augur 8.2c; dispute on interpretation of
response of haruspices 7.4a; addresses pontijices
8.2a; see also Index of Sources
Claudia Quinta (Roman matron, late third
century B.C.) 2.7a & b
General index
Claudius (emperor, A.D. 41-54): extension of
pomerium4.8b &c c; festivals commemorating
3.5; as god 9.2c
Claudius (Appius Claudius Caecus, censor 312
B.C) 1.6c
Clodius (Publius Clodius Pulcher, tribune 58
B.C) 7.4a
coloniae, religion of 10.1b & c, 10.2, 11.5c
Commodus (emperor, A.D. 176-92): attempted
assassination at festival of Magna Mater 5.6b;
festival commemorating 3.5; as Hercules
2.8c
conversion: to Christianity 11.11c, 12.7b(i); in
cultoflsis 12.4b; to Judaism 12.6d(ii), 12.6e
Concordia (Concord) 2.3a; temple of 4.7
Constantine (emperor, A.D. 312—37): and
Christianity 4.15 c&d, 8.10b, 11.13;
regulations against magic, 11.2c
curio (curiones) (priests of the curiae) 8.1a
curses, see spells
Cybele 2.5, 13.6; see aho Magna Mater
Dea Dia 4.5,6.2
death and after-life 9.6, 13.1b, 13.3; Christian
12.7d(ii); Jewish 12.6d(iii); Lupercalia (as
festival of dead) 5-2c; rebirth (apogenesis) 11.6,
12.5g; see aho burial and funeral feast
decemviri sacris faciundis, see quindecimviri sacris
faciundis
Decius (emperor, A.D. 249-51) 6.8c
deification 2.8, 9.2, 9.3; see aho 'imperial cult'
deities ch. 2 {passim); anthropomorphic 2.1, 2.4a
& b; British 2.9b; evolution of 1.1;
'functional' deities 2.2c, 6.2; Gallic 2.9b;
images of 1.1a, 2.5, 2.10b & c; innovation 2.6,
2.7, 2.8; location of 2.4c; polytheism ch. 2
(intro); see aho abstractions, deified and deity,
Christian; deity, Jewish
deity, Christian 2.10b & c; Jewish 11.8a, 12.6a
Demeter 7.5a; Karpophoros 7.6c(ii);
Thesmophoros 7.6c(i)
demons 12.7a
devotio 6.6a
Diana: at Aricia 1.5c; at Rome (Aventine) 1.5d;
10.1; in prayers, rituals etc. 5.5b, 5.7b; society
of 12.2; varieties of 2. Id; see aho Artemis
Diocletian (emperor, A.D.284-305), ruling
against Manichees 11.12
Dionysos 12.7a(i); see aho Bacchus
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