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Addendum: The Religious Roles of Children in the Provinces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2010

INGA C. MANTLE
Affiliation:
ingacm@gmail.com

Extract

In my previous article, ‘The Roles of Children in Roman Religion’, it was shown, from literary and visual evidence, that children of both sexes played a part in religious cult in choirs and groups, as assistants to priests and other sacrificants, at weddings and in private rites. Most of the evidence cited came from Rome and Italy, as indeed the title implies. Since writing it, however, I have been collecting Latin epitaphs to children throughout the provinces of the Roman empire, and in the course of this study I have come across a small amount of evidence for children in religious roles. It is worth considering whether such children, along with those represented visually, were participating in what might be called offi cial Roman religion or whether they were to some extent involved in their own local cults.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 2010

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