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Why did republican Rome clamp down on the bacchic cult? 2017-09-07 08:57:23 Post No. 3344703
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Why did republican Rome clamp down on the bacchic cult?
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There appear to be three main hypothesis I've come across:
1)moral panic
2) conspiracy
3) a suspicion of foreign cultural influence following the Punic wars
4 to stop people misusing the cult for personal gain
There is an interesting theory that the specific restriction that only 3 women and 2 men could gather was because this was below the threshold of witnesses needed to ratify legal documents and some people may have been misusing the cult as a front for killing people after getting written into their wills. Hence the charges of conspiracy and the very specific wording of the law restricting the bacchic rites.
Source: http://www.academia.edu/3676241/Livy_and_the_Bacchanalia
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Ignore my number mistake I'll call myself a faggot and be done with it.
The law itself stated that:
>no men should be priests of Bacchus
>no more than 5 people should meet unless explicitly permitted by the praetor urbanus in the presence of at least 100 senators
>revelries shall not take place for longer than 3 market days
If it really was just a moral panic why mass executions?
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Think how frothed up people get about modern moral panics. You don't think there'd be people stringing up """"satanic paedophiles"""" or waving J K Rowling's head on a stick if they could get away with it?
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>>3344703
kang sokrateez?
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