SACRED BRITANNIA: THE GODS AND RITUALS OF ROMAN BRITAIN

Two thousand years ago, the Romans invaded an almost mythical island on the edge of the known world. They brought with them a pantheon of new deities and a clutch of exotic eastern cults including Christianity. But what native cosmologies did they encounter, and how did they react to them? Under their rule, the old gods were challenged, adopted, adapted, absorbed and re-configured. This book draws on literary, archaeological and iconographic evidence to illuminate the complex two-way traffic between imported and indigenous cults.