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- Title
Theodor Mommsen, Franz Cumont e la diffusione delle "religioni orientali".
- Authors
BONANNO, DANIELA
- Abstract
In the Archives of Franz Cumont (1868-1947) at the Belgian Academy in Rome a manuscript has been recently found. In the inventory of the archives of the Belgian scholar, the document was labelled as a draft of the introduction to the Les mystères de Mithra (1901). Nevertheless, a closer reading revealed that it is actually an original text, enriched with a score of 20 written comments in a different handwriting from that of F. Cumont. The comparison of this writing with that of the Franz Cumont correspondents revealed that the astute and sometimes very dry reader, was probably the German scholar Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903). We know that Franz Cumont had shared scientific values and friendship with him from the times of his stay in Germany between 1888-1889. The matching reading of Franz Cumont's text and Mommsen's annotations give us an interesting testimony of two different approaches, two different but complementary ways to "historize" the "oriental religions". I will put my attention on such aspects in this paper.
- Subjects
BELGIUM; MANUSCRIPT analysis; ARCHIVES; MOMMSEN, Theodor, 1817-1903; CUMONT, Franz Valery Marie, 1868-1947; ROMAN religion; MITHRAS (Zoroastrian deity); MIDDLE Eastern civilization
- Publication
Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni, 2013, Vol 79, Issue 2, p584
- ISSN
0393-8417
- Publication type
Article