What does topos mean?
Topos means A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula..
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/ˈtoʊpɒs/ · noun
A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula..
The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.
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Topos means A literary theme or motif; a rhetorical convention or formula..
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The ritual of weighing the soul was an iconographic topos familiar to Christianity from the ceremony of the weighing of sins at the Last Judgement.
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