Sketches And Studies in Italy And Greece, Third Series
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Spartian's brief phrase, _aliiseum devotum pro Hadriano_, may seem to point to the first form ofself-devotion; the testimony of Aurelius Victor clearly supports thesecond: yet it does not much matter which of the two explanations weadopt. The point is whether Antinous gave his life willingly to savethe Emperor's, or whether he was murdered for the satisfaction ofsome superstitious curiosity. It was absolutely necessary that thevicarious victim should make a free and voluntary oblation ofhimself.... That the notion of vicarious suffering was familiar to theancients is sufficiently attested by the phrases [Greek:antipsychoi], [Greek: antandroi], and _hostia succidanea_. We findtraces of it in the legend of Alcestis, who died for Admetus, and ofCheiron, who took the place of Prometheus in Hades. Suetoniusrecords that in the first days of Caligula's popularity, when he waslabouring under dangerous illness, many Romans of both sexes vowedtheir lives for his recovery in temples of the gods. That thissuperstition retained a strong hold on the popular imagination inthe time of Hadrian is proved by the curious affirmation ofAristides, a contemporary of that Emperor.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Spartian's brief phrase, _aliiseum devotum pro Hadriano_, may seem to point to the first form ofself-devotion; the testimony of Aurelius Victor clearly supports thesecond: yet it does not much matter which of the two explanations weadopt. The point is whether Antinous gave his life willingly to savethe Emperor's, or whether he was murdered for the satisfaction ofsome superstitious curiosity. It was absolutely necessary that thevicarious victim should make a free and voluntary oblation ofhimself.... That the notion of vicarious suffering was familiar to theancients is sufficiently attested by the phrases [Greek:antipsychoi], [Greek: antandroi], and _hostia succidanea_. We findtraces of it in the legend of Alcestis, who died for Admetus, and ofCheiron, who took the place of Prometheus in Hades. Suetoniusrecords that in the first days of Caligula's popularity, when he waslabouring under dangerous illness, many Romans of both sexes vowedtheir lives for his recovery in temples of the gods. That thissuperstition retained a strong hold on the popular imagination inthe time of Hadrian is proved by the curious affirmation ofAristides, a contemporary of that Emperor.
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