Pollution and religion in Ancient Rome

Pollution and Religion in Ancient Rome

📁 Pollution and Religion in Ancient Rome

✍ Jack J. Lennon 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Pollution could come from any number of sources in the Roman world. Bodily functions, sexual activity, bloodshed, death - any of these could cause disaster if brought into contact with religion. Its presence could invalidate sacrifices, taint religious officials, and threaten to bring down the

Religion, Institutions and Society in An

📁 Religion, Institutions and Society in Ancient Rome

✍ Scheid, John 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Collège de France 🌐 English

By opposing sectarian discourses with the universal weapons of history, philology and anthropology, in short, the entire arsenal of science and reason, the history of religions of the past enables us to deflate modern myths, and not only those of others but also our own. It allows us to identify the

Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece

📁 Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome

✍ Sophia Papaioannou; Andreas Serafim; Kyriakos Demetriou 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Walter de Gruyter GmbH 🌐 English

It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural institutions and structures, while also being influenced, or even determined, by them. Rhetoric is used to address t

Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece

📁 Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome

✍ Sophia Papaioannou (editor); Andreas Serafim (editor); Kyriakos Demetriou (edito 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 De Gruyter 🌐 English

It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural institutions and structures, while also being influenced, or even determined, by them. Rhetoric is used to address t

Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece

📁 Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome

✍ Sophia Papaioannou (editor); Andreas Serafim (editor); Kyriakos Demetriou (edito 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 De Gruyter 🌐 English

It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural institutions and structures, while also being influenced, or even determined, by them. Rhetoric is used to address t

On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and th

📁 On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome

✍ Jörg Rüpke 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Cornell University Press 🌐 English

Was religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jorg Rupke, one of the world's leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it was a lived religion

Pollution and religion in Ancient Rome

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