What Was Pax Deorum And How Important Was It?

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What Was Pax Deorum And How Important Was It?
AncientPages.com | May 1, 2018 
 

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Pax Deorum (“peace of the gods”) signified the central goal of Roman state religion.

The Pax Deorum provided divine protection to the Roman Empire, which needed this kind of security as much as it needed material protection from the army’s side. Thus politics and religion cooperated with each other.

Also all the citizens of Rome had to participate in the process. In order to obtain a mutually beneficial and satisfactory state of peace between Rome and its deities, people had to provide the gods with worship and cult.

The gods, on the other hand, safeguarded Rome's public welfare.

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