How Long to Read The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden

How Long Does it Take to Read The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 5 minutes to read The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden by Harriet I. Flower

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing gods. These shrines were maintained primarily by ordinary Romans, and often by slaves and freedmen, for whom the lares cult provided a unique public leadership role. In this comprehensive and richly illustrated book, the first to focus on the lares, Harriet Flower offers a strikingly original account of these gods and a new way of understanding the lived experience of everyday Roman religion. Weaving together a wide range of evidence, Flower sets forth a new interpretation of the much-disputed nature of the lares. She makes the case that they are not spirits of the dead, as many have argued, but rather benevolent protectors—gods of place, especially the household and the neighborhood, and of travel. She examines the rituals honoring the lares, their cult sites, and their iconography, as well as the meaning of the snakes often depicted alongside lares in paintings of gardens. She also looks at Compitalia, a popular midwinter neighborhood festival in honor of the lares, and describes how its politics played a key role in Rome’s increasing violence in the 60s and 50s BC, as well as in the efforts of Augustus to reach out to ordinary people living in the city’s local neighborhoods. A reconsideration of seemingly humble gods that were central to the religious world of the Romans, this is also the first major account of the full range of lares worship in the homes, neighborhoods, and temples of ancient Rome. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

How long is The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden?

The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden by Harriet I. Flower is 416 pages long, and a total of 106,496 words.

This makes it 140% the length of the average book. It also has 130% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 41 minutes to read The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden aloud.

What Reading Level is The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden?

The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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