Burial customs and the pollution of death in ancient Rome: procedures and paradoxes
The Roman attitude towards the dead in the period spanning the end of the Republic and the high point of the Empire was determined mainly by religious views on the (im)mortality of the soul and the concept of the “pollution of death”. Contamination through contact with the dead was thought to affec...
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Language: | English |
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University of the Free State
2005-06-01
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Series: | Acta Theologica |
Online Access: | https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/2085 |
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