Invoking Humans in Roman-Era Oaths: Emotional Relations and Divine Ambiguity.
This article examines Roman-era oaths invoking nondeities, especially persons. It argues that rather than invoking quasi-deities or persons to be punished by the gods in case of perjury, as usually understood in the past, these invocations could have two concurrent functions: honoring the invoked pe...
| Publicado en: | Numen: International Review for the History of Religions Vol. 68; no. 4; pp. 382 - 411 |
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2021
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