In your EPQ project you may want to focus on one of the following questions:

• How was religious identity discussed in the Graeco-Roman world? You can for example look at the debate between Christians and Pagans in Late Antiquity or the way in which Christian orthodoxy was discussed or you can look at Plato’s understanding of religion and its influence on modern and contemporary thought.
• How far did religion play a role in the political and cultural development of the Roman empire? You can for example focus on the relationship between religion and authority and on the role of late antique emperors, from Constantine onwards, in shaping the relationship between Christian religion and political power across the Roman empire
• How far did religious practice reflect notions about identity and status in the Greek and Roman world? You can consider aspects like:
  • public religious practices such as prayer, sacrifice and divination
  • architecture (temples, sanctuaries)
  • domestic religious practice (domestic cults and religious practices)
  • funerary religious practice (burials, cemeteries, catacombs)
  • gender and religious practice (such as the role of women in some Greek festivals, the role of the Vestal in Rome)
• Was there a difference between state religion and private religion in the Roman world? And how did it reflect in the material culture of the Roman empire?

Religious identity, being it Greek, Roman, Jewish or Christian, can be traced through the written sources and material culture, revealing a great degree of interconnections and interactions.

• Hesiod, Theogony
• Plato, Metaphysics
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (open link) 
  • Oxford Bibliographies (open link) 
• Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods
• Epistles of Paul
• Beard, M., North, J. and Price, S., 1998. Religions of Rome, Volume 2: A Sourcebook. Cambridge University Press.
• Cotter, W., 2012. Miracles in Greco-Roman antiquity: A sourcebook for the study of New Testament miracle stories. Routledge.
• Kraemer, R.S. ed., 2004. Women's religions in the Greco-Roman world: a sourcebook. Oxford University Press.
• Lee, A.D., 2015. Pagans and Christians in late antiquity: a sourcebook. Routledge.
• Rice, D.G. and Stambaugh, J.E., 2012. Sources for the Study of Greek Religion: Corrected Edition (Vol. 14). Society of Biblical Lit.

Architecture

• The Parthenon in Athens (Greece)
• The Panhellenic sanctuary of Delphi (Greece)
• Sanctuary of Demetra and Kore at Eleusis (Greece)
• The temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus Capitolinus in Rome (Italy)
• The Lateran Basilica (Rome), Constantinian phase
• The Temple of Sulis Minerva in Baths (UK)
• The London mithraeum (UK) (open link)
• The Sebasteion of Aphrodisias (Turkey)

Artefacts

• Senatus consultum (decree of the Roman Senate) the Bacchanalibus (open 4.3 S.C de Bacchanalibus pdf)
• Roman oil lamp with chrismon symbol (open 4.3 Oil lamp pdf)
• Roman stele from Tamugadi/Timgad (Algeria) (open 4.3 Stele Timgad pdf)
• Roman mosaic from Tipasa (Algeria) (open 4.3 Tipasa pdf)

Artefacts from the Great North Museum (Newcastle)

• Roman relief with Mercury (Britain) (open link)
• Roman imperial coin (open link) featuring the emperor Constantine on the obverse and the god Sol Invictus (invincible Sun) on the reverse. What can this coin tell us about Constantine’s religious policy at the time when it was minted and how does it reflect the changes that occurred in imperial religious policies during his reign?

• Allen, R. E. (2006). Studies in Plato’s metaphysics II. Las Vegas: Parmenides.
• Bispham, E. and Smith, C., 2014. Religion in archaic and republican Rome and Italy: evidence and experience. Routledge.
• Bodel, J. and Olyan, S.M. eds., 2012. Household and family religion in antiquity (Vol. 6). John Wiley & Sons.
• Clark, G., Clark, E.G. and Gillian, C., 2004. Christianity and Roman society. Cambridge University Press.
• Dillon, M., 2003. Girls and women in classical Greek religion. Routledge.
• Dunn, J.D. and Dunn, J.D. eds., 2003. The Cambridge Companion to St Paul. Cambridge University Press.
• Evans, N., 2010. Civic rites: Democracy and religion in ancient Athens. Univ of California Press.
• Flower, H.I. ed., 2014. The Cambridge companion to the Roman republic. Cambridge University Press.
• Frankfurter, D., 1998. Religion in Roman Egypt: assimilation and resistance. Princeton University Press.
• Hagg, R. and Marinatos, N. eds., 2002. Greek sanctuaries: new approaches. Routledge.
• Henig, M.M. and Henig, M., 2003. Religion in Roman Britain. Routledge.
• Kamen, D., 2013. Status in classical Athens. Princeton University Press.
• Larson, J. and Larson, J.L., 2007. Ancient Greek cults: a guide. Routledge.
• Lee, A.D., 2015. Pagans and Christians in late antiquity: a sourcebook. Routledge.
• Lenski, N. and Lenski, N.E. eds., 2012. The Cambridge companion to the age of Constantine. Cambridge University Press.
• Mikalson, J., 2010. Greek popular religion in Greek philosophy. Oxford University Press.
• Mikalson, J.D., 2009. Ancient Greek Religion (Vol. 9). John Wiley & Sons.
• Mylonas, G.E., 2015. Eleusis and the Eleusinian mysteries (Vol. 2182). Princeton University Press.
• Ogden, D. ed., 2010. A companion to Greek religion. John Wiley & Sons.
• Orlin, E.M., 2002. Temples, religion, and politics in the Roman Republic (Vol. 164). Brill.
• Pedley, J., 2005. Sanctuaries and the sacred in the ancient Greek world. Cambridge University Press.
• Petridou, G., 2016. Divine epiphany in Greek literature and culture. Oxford University Press.
• Raja, R. and Rüpke, J. eds., 2015. A Companion to the Archaeology of Religion in the Ancient World. John Wiley & Sons.
• Rousseau, P. and Raithel, J. eds., 2009. A companion to Late Antiquity. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Rüpke, J. ed., 2011. A companion to Roman religion (Vol. 78). John Wiley & Sons.
• Scott, M., 2014. Delphi and Olympia. Cambridge University Press.
• Watts, D., 2014. Christians and Pagans in Roman Britain (Routledge Revivals). Routledge.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (open link)
• Oxford Bibliographies (open link) 
• Perseus digital library (open link)
• The Grove Art Online (open link)