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Imagining Insurance: Safety at Sea and the Samothracian Rites

Panel: 
"Would That Never" II: Ships, Shipwrecks, and Sea Travel in Classical Literature
Abstract: 

Safe travel at sea was the most famous benefit of initiation into the Samothracian mysteries. Abundant literary sources attribute this to the Dioskouroi, imagined as St. Elmo’s fire; iconographic evidence is more slender, but detectable in aniconic, archaising epigraphic images.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Sandra
Last Name: 
Blakely
Institution: 
Emory University