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toxins may come from any variety of assets within the Roman global. physically services, sexual intercourse, bloodshed, dying - any of those can cause catastrophe if introduced into touch with faith. Its presence may perhaps invalidate sacrifices, taint non secular officers, and threaten to convey down the anger of the gods upon town. Orators may perhaps use pollutants as a method of denigrating rivals and obstructing spiritual tactics, and writers may emphasise the 'otherness' of barbarians through drawing cognizance to their diverse principles approximately what used to be or was once now not 'dirty'. but regardless of all this, spiritual pollutants remained a imprecise proposal in the Latin language, and what constituted pollutants might switch counting on the context within which it seemed. Calling upon a number of examine disciplines, this ebook highlights the numerous position that toxins performed throughout Roman faith, and the function it performed within the building of spiritual identity.

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