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Greco-Roman
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Undergraduate 3
03/31/2014

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Term
household or family God.
Definition
Lares
Term
Shrine dedicated to the Lares
Definition
Lararium
Term
Pantry god or god of food and abundance.
Definition
Penates
Term
Individual God, primarily for Paterfamilia
Definition
Genius
Term
female followers of Dionysus
Definition
Maenads
Term
Military exercise involving calvary riding in a circle.
Definition
Decursio
Term
Deifying initiation
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Apotheosis
Term
Hidden meaning or symbolic representation.
Definition
Allegorical
Term
animal horn
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Shofar
Term
latin word for duty
Definition
Pietas
Term
Cult statue that looks like rock
Definition
Beytle
Term
final resting place that looks like little dove houses
Definition
columbarium
Term
deifyied male
Definition
Divus
Term
Child of Isis and Osiris
Definition
Horus
Term
examiner of liver
Definition
Horospecs
Term
graveyard outside of the city
Definition
necropolis
Term
Initiation, secret knowledge, happy afterlife, from the East.
Definition
mystery cult
Term
combining two gods into one; serapis
Definition
Syncredism
Term
musical instrument played during Isis ceremonies
Definition
Sistrum
Term
cave-like place of worship for mystery cult Mithraism
Definition
Mithraeum
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