This paper deals with a set of texts mentioning Marsian priests’ control over serpents, and with the identity representations associated to these practices, which changed along the centuries. Secondly, it analyses how these aristocratic representations were re-used by freedmen milieus, who utilise the serpent motive on Augustan tombs in order to affirm their adhesion to the local identity representations.
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