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Fatal Charades: Roman Executions Staged as Mythological Enactments
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Tertullian, illustrating the sacrilegious nature of pagan religion, records that in an auditorium he saw a person being burned to death in the role of Hercules and another being castrated as Attis; both of these examples he adduces to substantiate his assertion to his pagan audience that ‘criminals often adopt the roles of your deities’ (‘et ipsos deos vestros saepe noxii induunt’). The practice that Tertullian here deplores is the subject of this paper: the punishment of criminals in a formal public display involving role-play set in a dramatic context; the punishment is usually capital.
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- Authors
- Coleman, K. M.
- Venue
- Journal of Roman Studies
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1990-11
- Volume
- 80
- Pages
- 44-73
- ISSN
- 0075-4358 (ISSN-L)
- 1753-528X
- OpenAlex
- W2135647588
- Cited by
- 721
- References
- 13
- FWCI
- 2.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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