Pollution and religion in ancient Rome
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 anger...
| Autres titres: | Pollution & Religion in Ancient Rome |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
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| Publié: |
Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2014.
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| Dans: | Année: 2014 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Römisches Reich
/ Religion
/ Contamination
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Purity, Ritual Rome
B Rome Religion B Pollution ; Religious aspects B Pollution Religious aspects B Pollution Religious aspects B Rome ; Religion B Rome Religion |
| Accès en ligne: |
Compte rendu Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Édition parallèle: | Print version: 9781107037908 |
| Résumé: | 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 anger of the gods upon the city. Orators could use pollution as a means of denigrating opponents and obstructing religious procedures, and writers could emphasise the 'otherness' of barbarians by drawing attention to their different ideas about what was or was not 'dirty'. Yet despite all this, religious pollution remained a vague concept within the Latin language, and what constituted pollution could change depending on the context in which it appeared. Calling upon a range of research disciplines, this book highlights the significant role that pollution played across Roman religion, and the role it played in the construction of religious identity. Defining pollution -- Lexical categories -- Pure and the polluted in Roman religion -- Birth, sex, and bodily margins -- Blood -- Death and remembrance -- Pollution and rhetoric -- Conclusion |
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| Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 1139795430 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139795432 |