How do the Galli of the Magna Mater cult occupy gendered space in Latin Literature?
The galli were the self-castrated devotees of Magna Mater, a Phrygian goddess introduced to Rome in 204BCE during Hannibal’s invasion of Italy (Roller, 1999, p.263),1 ostensibly due to a prophecy claiming that her arrival in Rome would expel the invaders.2 Magna Mater’s arrival in Rome was consequen...
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New Classicists
2021-03-01
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