the image of somebody throwing a stone. In several Greek texts, a stone that is thrown against someone becomes a real instrument of contesting power. This is a case in which we can observe many associations [...] strong with the afterworld that the search for a simple contact becomes a real attempt to recall someone from the underworld. In the path drawn by the associations concerning the image examined above

It is extremely revealing that the first Egyptian temple in Rome was founded in the 180’s B.C. Someone, considering the precocity of the Sicilian episode, has hypothesized that the cult was imported from

triumph in death. In Drusus’ case, what seems to be new is the attribution of triumphal honors to someone who had not actually received them. Drusus dies in the midst of Augustus’ changes, but the consolation

non-Jewish burial. [24] Here, the cupids are what are unexpected; Cupid, a Roman god, is someone one would not consider acceptable to the sensibilities of Jewish monotheism. Apparently, however