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The Role of the Vestal Virgins in Roman Civic Religion - 9780773447653

Un libro in lingua di Thompson Lindsay J. O'Donnell James J. (FRW) edito da Edwin Mellen Pr, 2010

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This study introduces a question, somewhat disregarded or discounted in recent years, regarding the link between the Vestals and early Christian consecrated virgins. In a political interpretation of the ancient Roman virginity cult, this work demonstrates that female virginity was understood by both Christian and non-Christian Romans as a symbolic analogue of the securely intact body politic.

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