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Kazanzakis had a really charming subplot in one of his novels. A poor man owned a donkey, which he treated with great love. It was taken from him by a rich man to whom he owed money. The poor donkey, of course, was miserable, as it was no longer loved. It prayed to its god, which was a white donkey. . . pat sloane ============================================================= In a message dated 8-22-1999 4:39:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: > At 10:45 21/08/99 -0400, you wrote: > >At 11:21 AM 8/20/99 +0000, you wrote: > > > >>There is a nice > >>bit of anti-Christian graffiti surviving from c.200 from the Palatine > >>Hill in Rome depicting someone praying in front of a crucified donkey > >>with the inscription "Alexamenos worships his god". > >>Cheers, > >>Jim Bugslag > >> > > > > >A nice reproduction can be found in Peter Brown's The World of Late > >Antiquity. > >Michael F. Hynes > >Columbia University > > > The more recent approach to this graffito is to my knowledge O. > Ricoux's "Le crucifié onocéphale du Palatin", in C. Auvray-Assayas (ed.) > _Images Romaines_, Paris, Presses de l'Ecole Normale Superieure, 1998, pp. > 61-8. > > Here is the abstract: "The graffito [...] was generally interpreted > as a blasphemous caricature aimed at the Christians. It is more likely to be > the most ancient evidence of the existence in Rome of a religious syncretism" > > > Best Regards > > Carlos > > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%