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Acceptance, Imitation and Adaptation: How did the Natives of Roman Dalmatia Respond to Roman Cultural Presence?

Roman Dalmatia as a province emerged at the beginning of the 1st cent. CE, but the Roman presence in that region was already centuries long, especially in the littoral areas. The province was inhabited by populations of different linguistic and/ or ethnic affiliations as well as of different cultural habits. They, thus, responded in various ways to the Roman presence at the Eastern Adriatic and its hinterland, and eventually accepted new - Romanised - life patterns. The main focus of this paper describes the various ways in which religious life changed its appearance (and very probably its substance) with the Roman domination, by either accepting the worshipping of Roman deities, making the local deities similar to those of the Romans (interpretatio Romana) and/or adapting their natures but also places of worship. Integral part of this study is the issue of natives entering Roman priesthoods as a way of changing fashions in local religious lives.

Roman Dalmatia ; ancient religion ; Romanisation ; Eastern Adriatic ; cultural changes

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