Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World by Richard Finn

Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World

Key Themes in Ancient History

Richard Finn

194 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Asceticism deploys abstention, self-control & -denial, to order oneself or a community in relation to the divine. Both its practices & the cultural ideals they expressed were important to pagans, Jews, Christians of different kinds & M...

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