CHAPTER XI.
RELIGION Absence of real religious feeling; neglect of worship, except in the family; foreign cults, e.g.of Isis; religious attitude of Cicero and other public men: free thought, combined with maintenance of the ius divinum; Lucretius condemns all religion as degrading: his failure to produce a substitute for it; Stoic attitude towards religion: Stoicism finds room for the gods of the State; Varro's treatment of theology on Stoic lines; his monotheistic conception of Jupiter Capitolinus; the Stoic Jupiter a legal rather than a moral deity; Jupiter in the Aeneid; superstition of the age; belief in portents, visions, etc.; ideas of immortality; sense of sin, or despair of the future.
EPILOGUE INDEX ILLUSTRATIONS PLAN OF HOUSE OF THE SILVER WEDDING AT POMPEII MAP TO ILLUSTRATE THE POSITION OF CICERO'S VILLAS PLAN OF THE VILLA OF DIOMEDES AT POMPEII PLAN OF A TRICLINIUM MAP ROME IN THE LAST YEARS OF THE REPUBLIC _At end of Volume_ Translations of passages in foreign languages in this book will be found in the Appendix following page 362..