HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Peloponnesian War, Christianization, The Bacchae
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One purpose was to ward off evil spirits and promoted health and futility and purified the city. Mythical she wolf who suckled the founders of rome, romulus and remus. Statue of capitoline wolf-5th century bc, romulus and remus added closer to. Became christianized and associated itself with st. valentine. Best kind of desire is intellectual desire. Common playwright aristophanes, horrible idea that someone is your other half. The historian thucydides rejects mythology in his history of the peloponnesian war: it may well be that my history will seem less easy to listen to because of the absence in it of to muthodes ( the story-like") In 380 ad emperor theodosius 1 makes it illegal to convert from christianity to pagan religion. Becomes illegal to worship all the mythological gods. When christianity begins its a cult not a big religion. 4th century ad, christianity becomes major religion in rome. One of rome"s major tactics was incorporation rather than exclusion-made rome successful.
