It takes the average reader 8 hours and 17 minutes to read Romanising Oriental Gods by Jaime Alvar Ezquerra
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The traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of three major cults, of Cybele and Attis, Isis and Serapis, and Mithras. Although their differences are plain, these cults present sufficient common features to justify their being taken typologically as a group. All were selective adaptations of much older cults of the Fertile Crescent. It was their relative sophistication, their combination of...
Romanising Oriental Gods by Jaime Alvar Ezquerra is 486 pages long, and a total of 124,416 words.
This makes it 164% the length of the average book. It also has 152% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 19 minutes to read Romanising Oriental Gods aloud.
Romanising Oriental Gods is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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