Item 46 - Letter from Franz Cumont to J. G. Frazer

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Add. MS c/56/46

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Letter from Franz Cumont to J. G. Frazer

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  • 6 Nov. 1907 (Creation)

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Frazer, Sir James George (1854-1941), knight, social anthropologist and classical scholar
(1854-1941)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Bruxelles, 75 rue Montoyer - Thanks him for the book ['Adonis, Attis, Osiris'] and adds information to Frazer's theory of Attis and Easter from Ambrosiaster about heathens in the 4th century practicing blood atonement; discusses an alternate explanation for the origin of the sacred prostitutes, citing Strabo.

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  • French
  • Latin

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