![]() ![]() The Roman conception of religion was even further removed from ours. Applied to public life, the term “political” meant more “politician” than “politics.” In the 19 th century, people had a penchant for comparing the ancient Greeks and Romans to the contemporary bourgeois, but that representation has lost currency since then. ![]() And yet politikos aner is not a politician, but a man imbued with a sense of community, of the life of the polis. Religion and politics are two terms so familiar to us that we might presume they meant the same thing in Rome that they mean to us today. Henri-Irénée Marrou wrote that an historian must always know the meaning of the words he uses. ![]()
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