Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World by Richard Finn

Key Themes in Ancient History

Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World

Richard Finn

182 pages hardcover 2009

3 editions

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Asceticism deploys abstention, self-control, and self-denial, to order oneself or a community in relation to the divine. Both its practices and the cultural ideals they expressed were important to pagans, Jews, Christians of different kinds, and M...

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