After Life in Roman Paganism: Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation by Franz Valery Marie Cumont

After Life in Roman Paganism: Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation

Franz Valery Marie Cumont

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According to a rite borrowed by the Romans from the Etruscans, a pit was dug in the centre of the city, when the latter's foundations were laid, in order to make the Inferi communicate with the upper world. First fruits and other gifts were thrown...

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