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Pollution and Religion in Ancient Rome (Hardcover, New)
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Pollution and Religion in Ancient Rome (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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