Rome, Pollution and Propriety Dirt, Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity
Book contents
- Rome, Pollution and Propriety
- Series page
- Rome, Pollution and Propriety
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Note on contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Approaches to pollution and propriety
- Part I Antiquity
- 2 Pollution, religion and society in the Roman world
- 3 Purification in ancient Rome
- 4 Pollution, propriety and urbanism in Republican Rome
- 5 The ‘sacred sewer’: tradition and religion in the Cloaca Maxima
- 6 Crime and punishment on the Capitoline Hill
- 7 On the burial of unchaste Vestal Virgins
- Part II Modernity
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Purification in ancient Rome
from Part I - Antiquity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
Book contents
- Rome, Pollution and Propriety
- Series page
- Rome, Pollution and Propriety
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Note on contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Approaches to pollution and propriety
- Part I Antiquity
- 2 Pollution, religion and society in the Roman world
- 3 Purification in ancient Rome
- 4 Pollution, propriety and urbanism in Republican Rome
- 5 The ‘sacred sewer’: tradition and religion in the Cloaca Maxima
- 6 Crime and punishment on the Capitoline Hill
- 7 On the burial of unchaste Vestal Virgins
- Part II Modernity
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Rome, Pollution and ProprietyDirt, Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity, pp. 59 - 66Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012