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Casting away body parts (1)

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Body parts
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.06 Human/divine/anthropomorphic symbols, imagery and iconographic motifs
02.06.03 Body parts
Eunuch devotees (kurgarru/gallos)
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.02 Cult of Ištar
03.02.02 Devotees of Ištar
03.02.02.02 Eunuch devotees (kurgarru/gallos)
Self-castration
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.02 Cult of Ištar
03.02.04 Transsexuality/androgyny
03.02.04.01 Self-castration

Keywords
body

Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Christian-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Sentences of Sextus 13:
Cast aside every part of the body that does not lead you to self control; for it is better to live continently without some body part than destructively with it. … You may see that people have saved the health of the rest of their body by chopping off and casting away parts. How much better to do this for continence?

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Sentences of Sextus 13

Bibliography

Stevenson 2002, 130

Stevenson, Walter. “Eunuchs and early Christianity.” In: Shaun Tougher (ed.). Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, London: Duckworth 2002, 123-142.

Amar Annus

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