id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-571 Religion in ancient Rome - Wikipedia .html text/html 21197 1764 61 His Sabine successor Numa was pious and peaceable, and credited with numerous political and religious foundations, including the first Roman calendar; the priesthoods of the Salii, flamines, and Vestals; the cults of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus; and the Temple of Janus, whose doors stayed open in times of war but in Numa's time remained closed. Roman historians[15] regarded the essentials of Republican religion as complete by the end of Numa's reign, and confirmed as right and lawful by the Senate and people of Rome: the sacred topography of the city, its monuments and temples, the histories of Rome's leading families, and oral and ritual traditions.[16] According to Cicero, the Romans considered themselves the most religious of all peoples, and their rise to dominance was proof they received divine favor in return.[17] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-571.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-571.txt