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Index
Coverpage
Half title page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 People Flee
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Poplifugia: People Flee
1.3 Nonae Caprotinae: People Advance
1.3.1 Ritual Rehearsals
1.4 Matters of Fertility
1.4.1 Consus and the Nones of July
1.4.2 Pales and the Nones of July
1.5 Some Conclusions
2 And Romulus Disappears
2.1 Introduction
2.2 On a Conflation of Days
2.2.1 July 7: Romulus Disappears
2.2.2 July 5: Romulus Disappears
2.2.3 July 5 and July 7 as the Nones
2.2.4 Different – But the Same
2.3 Variant Aetiologies
2.4 The Poplifugia and the Crisis of the Warrior
2.4.1 Crisis of the Invading Enemy
2.4.2 Crisis of the Disappearing Romulus
2.5 The Problem of Direction
2.6 Some Conclusions
3 At the Shrines of Vulcan
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Regicide and the Sanctuary of Vulcan
3.2.1 The Sanctuary of Vulcan in Comitio
3.2.2 Locus Funestus; Locus Optimus
3.2.3 The Sanctuary of Vulcan in Campo
3.3 Language of the Forbidden: Part 1
3.3.1 Consus and Tutulina
3.3.2 Numa Pompilius
3.4 Days of the Forbidden
3.5 Language of the Forbidden: Part 2
3.6 Some Conclusions
4 Where Space Varies
4.1 Introduction
4.2 What’s in a Name?
4.3 Boundary and Movement
4.3.1 The Disappearance of Romulus in Comitio
4.3.2 The Pomerium and the Sanctuaries of Vulcan
4.3.3 Priest, Warrior, Populus: Rituals of Space Transcended
4.4 The Smaller Poplifugium
4.5 The Larger Poplifugium
4.5.1 The Disappearance of Romulus in Campo
4.6 Some Conclusions
5 Warriors in Crisis
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Overview of the Dysfunctional Warrior
5.2.1 The Indic Warrior
5.2.2 The Irish Warrior
5.2.3 The Italic Warrior
5.3 Roman Cult Tradition
5.3.1 The Pre-Capitoline Triad
5.3.2 Calendar and Cult
5.3.3 Temporal Anomalies: Wrinkles in Time
5.3.4 Warrior-Crisis and the Conflation of Days
5.4 Some Conclusions
6 Structures: Matrix and Continuum
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Feature (1): Crisis of the Warrior
6.2.1 The Contemporary Case: The American Warrior
6.2.2 The Ancient Case: The Indic, Irish, and Italic Warrior
6.2.3 Roman Ritual Aetiology and the Crisis of the Warrior
6.3 Camillus and the Crisis of the Warrior
6.3.1 The ἕτερος λόγος: Camillus, the Second Romulus
6.3.2 The Integration of Myth along an Axis of Historicity
6.4 Some Conclusions
7 Remote Spaces
7.1 Introduction
7.2 The Indic Warrior
7.3 The Irish Warrior
7.4 The Italic Warrior
7.4.1 Semo Sancus
7.4.2 The Aventine and the Pomerium
7.5 Roman Ritual
7.5.1 Ritual Enunciation
7.6 Some Conclusions
8 Erotic Women and the (Un)Averted Gaze
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The Irish Warrior
8.3 The Italic Warrior
8.3.1 Tiresias and the Unaverted Gaze
8.4 The Indo-Iranian Warrior
8.4.1 The Indic Warrior
8.4.2 The Armenian Warrior
8.4.3 The Nart Warrior
8.4.4 The Erotic Feminine in Indo-Iranian Tradition
8.5 The Debilitating Gaze
8.5.1 The Indic Warrior and His Stand-in
8.5.2 The Nart Warrior
8.6 Fire and the Feminine: The Recovery of the Warrior
8.6.1 Fire and Monovalency
8.6.2 Fire and Feminine Agency
8.7 Roman Ritual – and Myth
8.7.1 The Poplifugia/Nonae Caprotinae
8.7.2 Horatius and Horatia
8.8 Some Conclusions
9 Clairvoyant Women
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Indo-Iranian Warrior
9.2.1 The Indic Warrior
9.2.2 The Iranian Warrior
9.3 The Irish Warrior
9.4 The Italic Warrior
9.5 Roman Ritual
9.5.1 Fire and the Feminine
9.5.2 Naming the Clairvoyant Woman
9.6 Some Conclusions
10 Watery Spaces
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The Indo-Iranian Warrior
10.2.1 The Indic Warrior
10.2.2 The Iranian Warrior
10.3 The Irish Warrior
10.4 The Italic Warrior
10.5 Roman Ritual
10.5.1 The Caprae Palus
10.5.2 The Comitium
10.6 Some Conclusions
11 Return to Order
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The Indo-Iranian Warrior
11.2.1 The Indic Warrior
11.2.2 The Iranian Warrior
11.3 The Irish Warrior
11.4 The Italic Warrior
11.4.1 Semo Sancus and Indra
11.4.2 The Second Romulus and the Roman Return to Order
11.5 Roman Ritual
11.5.1 The Sororium Tigillum
11.5.2 The Poplifugia
11.5.3 Romulus, Numa, and the Mythic Matrix
11.6 Some Conclusions
12 Further Conclusions and Interpretations
Bibliography
Index
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