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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966965103321

Autore

Cole Spencer (Ph. D.)

Titolo

Cicero and the rise of deification at Rome / / Spencer Cole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

9781139892421

1139892428

9781107702844

1107702844

9781107701755

1107701759

9781107667006

1107667003

9781107689848

1107689848

9781107703759

1107703751

9781107598263

1107598265

9781139506373

1139506374

9781107596573

1107596572

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 208 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

HIS002000

Disciplina

292.07

Soggetti

Apotheosis - Rome

Emperor worship - Rome

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.


Sommario/riassunto

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 and Tusculan Disputations as well as his attempts to deify his daughter Tullia. In this book, Professor Cole transforms our understanding not only of the backgrounds to ruler worship but also of changing conceptions of death and the afterlife.