- Piccole ‘curiosità’ delle religioni antiche. Un approccio antropologico
- Edited by Ginevra Benedetti, Francesca Prescendi
Un dio per erede
- Maurizio Bettini
- © 2025 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0767-6.03
Some texts show us that in Rome both the hereditary capacity and the rights connected to the ius trium liberorurm could also be attributed to a divinity. What is even more surprising, however, is that such attribution was deliberated by the praetor or by an imperial constitutio deciding which divinity to admit or not. This is a custom that cannot help but arouse the «curiosity» of us moderns, as a phenomenon completely foreign to our mental frameworks. One might be tempted to ignore or discard this information, but it would be a mistake. Even in this case, in fact, following the impulse of «curiosity» for apparently minor or bizarre details leads to opening a broader cultural horizon.
- Keywords:
- law,
- gods,
- testament,
- control,
- citizenship,
University of Siena, Italy
- Bettini 2014 = M. Bettini, Elogio del politeismo. Quello che possiamo imparare oggi dalle religioni antiche, Bologna 2014.
- Bettini 2022 = M. Bettini, Roma. Città della parola, Torino 2022.
- Ramon 2016/2017 = A. Ramon, I beni degli dèi. Considerazioni sul regime giuridico delle ‘res sacrae’ e ‘religiosae’. Tesi di Dottorato. Università degli studi di Milano, a.a. 2016/2017.
Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Un dio per erede
Authors
Maurizio Bettini
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0767-6.03
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Book Title
Piccole ‘curiosità’ delle religioni antiche. Un approccio antropologico
Book Subtitle
Atti delle giornate di studio - Siena, 4 e 5 aprile 2024
Editors
Ginevra Benedetti, Francesca Prescendi
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
124
Publication Year
2025
Copyright Information
© 2025 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press, USiena Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0767-6
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0766-9
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0767-6
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0768-3
Series Title
Studi di Antichistica