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
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In a message dated 8-22-1999 4:39:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> 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
>
>
>
>
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