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Romans and Greeks: Livy on human sacrifice and other crimes by Bacchic devotees in Italy (late first century BCE)
Ancient author: Livy (ca. 9 BCE), Roman History 38.16-27 (link; link to Latin); ILLRP 511 = CIL I² 581 (October 186 BCE). Comments: Livy’s story about worshippers of Dionysos Bacchos set around 186 BCE (but written around 9 BCE) can be viewed, in large part, as a glimpse into Roman elite assumptions about foreign threats from […]
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