Preview: Emma Southon describes the sacrifice of Vestal VirginOppia (483 BCE), a religious practice driven by superstition and omens like plague or drought. To placate the gods without performing dire

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Preview: Emma Southon describes the sacrifice of Vestal VirginOppia (483 BCE), a religious practice driven by superstition and omens like plague or drought. To placate the gods without performing direct human sacrifice, the Vestal was paraded through Rome and then walled alive in a cave with milk, bread, and a lamp to slowly starve or suffocate. 1593