PERSIANO, MAGO E GUERRIERO. NOTE SULLA CARATTE RIZZAZIONE DI MANI E DEI MANICHEI NELLE FONTI GRECO-LATINE DEL IV SECOLO.
The perception of cultural otherness in Late Antiquity and within the Christian or pagan milieu shows a very interesting case of condemnation, about which these two sides of the Roman society were in agreement. The prophet Mani was in fact the target of a shared feeling of disapproval towards an ali...
| Publicado en: | Electrum Vol. 24; pp. 223 - 236 |
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Jagiellonian University Press
2017
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