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John M. McMahon wrote:
> Are there examples from Classical Antiquity for the kind of
> belief in the continued existence of a person, presumably
> famous, despite highly reliable evidence of his/her death?


The actor, singer and city planner L. Domitius Ahenobarbus; then a
certain Galilean or Syrian rabbi whom Pliny the Younger mentions in a
letter somewhere...

feliciter,

Lorenzo Smerillo

Research Lector Late Antiquity
Biblioteca Nazionale Protocenobio Sublacense (ROMA)
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