At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire by Heidi Wendt (review)

• Autores: Adam Serfass
• Localización: Journal of early Christian studies: Journal of the North American Patristic Society, ISSN 1067-6341, Nº. 1, 2018, págs. 158-160
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Experts may have enjoyed the social benefits that they accrued, but it does not necessarily follow that they uniformly pursued their work in order to obtain those benefits; it is possible to conceive of other motives—altruism, for example, or a sense of vocation. [...]since many literary sources portray the experts unfavorably and since the experts regularly accused one another of self-aggrandizement, it is not easy to get at what really motivated them. [...]Wendt suggests that epigraphic and archaeological evidence could be brought to bear in her study (6, 218–19), but, relying mostly on literary sources, the book does not treat this evidence in detail. [...]readers of this review may have noticed a conspicuous absence from the list that opens it.