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UNINA9910464353603321 |
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Autore |
Cole Spencer (Ph. D.) |
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Titolo |
Cicero and the rise of deification at Rome / / Spencer Cole [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-139-89242-8 |
1-107-70284-4 |
1-107-70175-9 |
1-107-66700-3 |
1-107-68984-8 |
1-107-70375-1 |
1-107-59826-5 |
1-139-50637-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vii, 208 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Apotheosis - Rome |
Emperor worship - Rome |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- 1. The cultural work of metaphor -- 2. Experiments and invented traditions -- 3. Charting the posthumous path -- 4. Revisions and Rome's new god -- Conclusions. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book tells a part of the back-story to major religious transformations emerging from the tumult of the late Republic. It considers the dynamic interplay of Cicero's approximations of mortals and immortals with a range of artifacts and activities that were collectively closing the divide between humans and gods. A guiding principle is that a major cultural player like Cicero had a normative function in religious dialogues that could legitimize incipient ideas like deification. Applying contemporary metaphor theory, it analyzes the strategies and priorities configuring Cicero's divinizing encomia of Roman dynasts like Pompey, Caesar and Octavian. It also examines Cicero's explorations of apotheosis and immortality in the De re publica |
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