Sacred words : orality, literacy, and religion / / edited by A.P.M.H. Lardinois, J.H. Blok, M.G.M. van der Poel.

A prevalent view in the current scholarship on ancient religions holds that state religion was primarily performed and transmitted in oral forms, whereas writing came to be associated with secret, private and marginal cults, especially in the Greek world. In Roman times, religions would have become...

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Superior document:Orality and literacy in the ancient world ; v. 8
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 332.
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; v. 332.
Physical Description:1 online resource (429 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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