Se nettoyer à Rome. IIe siècle avant J.-C.-IIe siècle après J.-C. Pratiques et enjeux. Antiquité Ascension: A Privileged Event for

Ascension: A Privileged Event for Monks

bestiality is combined with mysticism

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Se nettoyer à Rome. IIe siècle avant J.-C.-IIe siècle après J.-C. Pratiques et enjeux. Antiquité Ascension: A Privileged Event forThis book examines how Romans in the late Republic and early Empire viewed bodily cleansing. By addressing several practical questions (what is one cleansing oneself of? for what purpose? where is it done, with what means, and how?) and drawing on anthropological, archaeological, and lexicological analyses, it delineates the domains in which the Romans classified the categories of dirt, bodily care, and proper self presentation. The vocabulary of