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By assuming divine status he could kindle in his subjects an enthusiastic awareness of religious community , of common devotion to this god manifest among them : something deeper , more emotionally stirring , more spiritually cohesive ...
By assuming divine status he could kindle in his subjects an enthusiastic awareness of religious community , of common devotion to this god manifest among them : something deeper , more emotionally stirring , more spiritually cohesive ...
Síða 136
The river's failure made the Emperor - Pharaoh's own failure of divine powers humiliatingly manifest to all . It was as though the godhead in him was moribund or already dead . That Hadrian and Antinous were acutely aware of the need to ...
The river's failure made the Emperor - Pharaoh's own failure of divine powers humiliatingly manifest to all . It was as though the godhead in him was moribund or already dead . That Hadrian and Antinous were acutely aware of the need to ...
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He was , first , the divine ephebe . Ancient Greece had seen in the beauty of innocent youth a spiritual element , blooming , fading and always mysteriously renewed and therefore deserving of veneration . In sculpture , poetry and ...
He was , first , the divine ephebe . Ancient Greece had seen in the beauty of innocent youth a spiritual element , blooming , fading and always mysteriously renewed and therefore deserving of veneration . In sculpture , poetry and ...
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Antinous the young Greek c 11023 | 15 |
Hadrian the Roman Emperor 76123 | 33 |
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