Stealing From the Gods : Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination
Stealing from the Gods investigates how authors writing between the first century BCE and second century CE addressed the issue of temple robbery or sacrilegium. As a self-proclaimed empire of pious people, the Romans viewed temple robbery as deeply un-Roman and among the worst of offenses. On the o...
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University of Michigan Press
2026
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