Blod, sved og tårer - prodigier i romersk religion
Modern research has often viewed prodigies as weird and meaningless: either as the byproduct of ignorance, fear and mass hysteria - focusing on phychological aspects, or as calculating politicians' means of manipulating superstition - focusing on the possibility of fraud in political situations...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | Danish |
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Univ.
[1998]
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Religionsvidenskabeligt tidsskrift
Year: 1998, Volume: 33, Pages: 35-47 |
Further subjects: | B
Varsler
B Prodigier |
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Summary: | Modern research has often viewed prodigies as weird and meaningless: either as the byproduct of ignorance, fear and mass hysteria - focusing on phychological aspects, or as calculating politicians' means of manipulating superstition - focusing on the possibility of fraud in political situations. This article is an attempt at presenting prodigies and their expiation as an important institution within official Roman religion and as a stable and effective means of sustaining a religious, political and social equilibrium in accordance with pax deorum and mos maiorum. |
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ISSN: | 1904-8181 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religionsvidenskabeligt tidsskrift
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.7146/rt.v0i33.2655 |