A braccetto con Giove: Angelo Brelich e la religione romana

Angelo Brelich (1913-1977) has been one of the most recognized and important scholars in the field of the History of religions in Italy. Among his diverse research interests (Greek religion, methodology, etc.), the first and one of the most important throughout his academic career was Roman religion. From his first work on the topic, Il mito nella storia di Cecilio Metello (1939), to the last unfinished one, Iuppiter e la formazione del politeismo romano, it is possible to follow the development of his attitude towards the discipline as well as his methodology, from his first mentor Károly Kerényi’s to Raffaele Pettazzoni’s one, marked out by historicism and by the use of historico-religious comparison