Ladri di vestiti in Sicilia: Adrano, Efesto, i Palici e la giustizia divina

Abstract

This study aims at making a comparison between the local traditions of the sanctuaries of Adrano, of Efesto in Enna and the Palici and the situations of daily life narrated in the confessional inscriptions and in the prayers for justice. My purpose is to find points of contact and analogies that allow us to reconstruct the presence of common models in the choice and use of certain forms of religious communication. Secondly, I intend to make some considerations on the way in which the contact with the Greeks and their culture has made sure that new forms and media of religious communication were introduced within the local cults. The new media of religious communication made possible that the local religious elements were not obliterated, but thanks to a process of redefinition, which finds interesting parallels also in other regions of the Greek and Roman world, these continued to exist in a new (Greek) habit.

Keywords

• Divine Justice
• Hellenisation
• Sicily
• Greeks
• local people