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4 juin 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.pur.89962
- isbn: 9782753535220
- eisbn: 9782753560208
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Peter Stewart, « Ephemerality in Roman Votive Images », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.89962
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There are many aspects of modern religious practice which provide at least superficial analogies for Greek and Roman ritual, rendering them less remote if not necessarily easier to interpret. Such is the case with the veneration of divine images in Catholic or Orthodox Europe, for example, or the polytheistic Hinduism of India. The use of votive offerings in both of those traditions is also especially illuminating because it fleshes out a manner of using objects and images in cult, which for ...