| List of Maps and Figures | p. xi |
| Preface | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxiii |
| Abbreviations | p. xxvii |
| Grove and Goddess | |
| The Sanctuary of Diana at Aricia to the Augustan Age | p. 3 |
| The Approach | p. 3 |
| The Site | p. 7 |
| From the Archaic Age to ca. 300 B.C.E. | p. 10 |
| The Transformation of the Sanctuary | p. 14 |
| The Wealth and Finances of the Sanctuary | p. 19 |
| The Sanctuary through the Late Republic | p. 23 |
| The End of the Republic and the Politicization of the Sanctuary | p. 26 |
| The Sanctuary in the Augustan Age | p. 34 |
| Octavian's "Arician Mother" | p. 34 |
| Apollo and Diana, Rome and Aricia | p. 40 |
| Octavian and the Bones of Orestes | p. 41 |
| The Sanctuary in Augustan Literature | p. 48 |
| Grattius and the Sacrifice | p. 49 |
| The Sanctuary in the Empire | p. 55 |
| The Century after Augustus | p. 55 |
| Statius and the Ides of August | p. 60 |
| From Trajan to the Third Century | p. 63 |
| The Closing of the Sanctuary | p. 67 |
| Diana: Her Name and Her Appearance | p. 71 |
| The Linguistic Evidence | p. 71 |
| Representations of Diana in the Sanctuary | p. 75 |
| Cult Statues | p. 77 |
| Diana as an Artemis Figure | p. 80 |
| Negotiation of Image and Symbol | p. 82 |
| The Nature of Transformation | p. 85 |
| The Grove, the Goddess, and the History of Early Latium | p. 87 |
| The Latin People and Diana | p. 87 |
| The Cato Fragment | p. 88 |
| Sacred Disarmament in the Forest | p. 89 |
| Turnus Herdonius and Tarquinius Superbus | p. 90 |
| The Dictator Latinus | p. 94 |
| Lex Arae Dianae in Aventino | p. 95 |
| Servius Tullius and the Aventine Cult of Diana | p. 97 |
| The Aftermath of the Foundation of the Aventine Cult | p. 102 |
| The Failure of Servius' Federal Cult | p. 104 |
| The Ides of August in Rome and Aricia | p. 105 |
| The Cato Inscription and the Politics of the Cult of Diana | p. 108 |
| Latin Diana in the Archaic Period: A Summary | p. 109 |
| The Many Faces of Diana | p. 112 |
| Diana: The Problem | p. 112 |
| The Nature of the Hunting Cult | p. 114 |
| The Moon and the Huntress | p. 121 |
| The Techne of Hunting: The Nets | p. 125 |
| Diana Trivia, Guardian of the Roads | p. 128 |
| Diana and the Underworld | p. 131 |
| The Triple Diana | p. 134 |
| Diana Lucina: Guardian of Women in Childbirth | p. 135 |
| Teaching and Training the Young | p. 138 |
| Diana as Victrix, Opifer, and Conservatrix | p. 140 |
| Diana and Sexuality | p. 141 |
| Diana: The Resolution | p. 144 |
| Fugitives and Kings, Greeks and Slaves | |
| The Necessary Murderer | p. 147 |
| Frazer and the Rex Nemorensis | p. 147 |
| Wissowa | p. 149 |
| The Errors of Frazer and Wissowa | p. 150 |
| The Rex Nemorensis | p. 153 |
| The Ritual: Meeting the Challenge | p. 155 |
| Taking the Bough | p. 159 |
| The Tree | p. 162 |
| The Bough | p. 164 |
| The Combat | p. 167 |
| The Funeral | p. 170 |
| The Descent to the Underworld | p. 175 |
| Summary of the Ritual | p. 177 |
| The Evolution of the Meaning of the Rex Nemorensis | p. 178 |
| "We Are Fugitives" | p. 185 |
| Fugitive Slaves in the Latin World | p. 186 |
| Kings | p. 195 |
| Diana on the Aventine | p. 200 |
| Orestes and Iphigenia | p. 201 |
| The Madness of Orestes | p. 205 |
| Virbius, Hippolytus and Egeria | p. 208 |
| Virbius | p. 208 |
| Virbius and Hippolytus | p. 209 |
| Servius' Account | p. 213 |
| Virbius' Death | p. 215 |
| Virbius as Consort to Diana | p. 219 |
| Youth, Age, and Concealment | p. 219 |
| Egeria | p. 222 |
| Egeria in Latium | p. 224 |
| The Tears of Egeria | p. 226 |
| Egeria and the Exiles | p. 227 |
| Egeria and Birth | p. 230 |
| Virbius and Egeria | p. 231 |
| Healing and Ritual | |
| Diana the Healer | p. 235 |
| Diana and Healing | p. 235 |
| Religious Healing and Hippocratic Medicine | p. 236 |
| Rationalist Treatments: Wounds | p. 242 |
| Rabies | p. 245 |
| Skin Diseases | p. 246 |
| Knowledge through Ritual | p. 249 |
| The Distinction between Rationalist Medicine and Sanctuary Medicine | p. 252 |
| Grattius' Cynegetica and Diana's Sanctuary | p. 254 |
| Ritual Healing and the Maniae | p. 256 |
| Sanctuary Medicine | p. 257 |
| The "Accursed Itch" | p. 258 |
| Sanctuary Medicine and the Humoral Theory of Disease | p. 261 |
| Diagnosis by Metaphor and Analogy | p. 264 |
| Making and Metaphors | p. 267 |
| The Theory of the Maniae in Its Therapeutic Application | p. 269 |
| At the Gates of the Underworld | p. 271 |
| Furor, the Maniae, and the Common Man | p. 275 |
| The Theory of Humors, Mysticism, and the Development of Italic Cults | p. 277 |
| Religious Healing in the Sanctuary | p. 278 |
| Conclusion: Diana and Her Worshippers | p. 280 |
| The Worshippers | p. 280 |
| Approaching the Sanctuary | p. 282 |
| Consulting the Goddess | p. 285 |
| What Did Ritual Healing Accomplish? | p. 286 |
| Judging Diana | p. 289 |
| The Goddess, Diana | p. 290 |
| Between Aricia and Rome | p. 292 |
| Appendix | p. 297 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 303 |
| Index Locorum | p. 319 |
| Index | p. 329 |
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