Divine qualities [[electronic resource] ] : cult and community in Republican Rome / / Anna J. Clark

• Record Nr.: UNISA996209838003316
• Autore: Clark Anna <1974->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-281-15000-2; 9786611150006; 0-19-152770-X; 1-4356-3111-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (391 p.)
• Collana: Oxford classical monographs
• Disciplina: 292.07
• Soggetti: Cults - Rome; Cults - Social aspects - Rome; Rome Religion
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-348) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Divine qualities -- Introducing new god(desse)s -- Staging divine qualities-- Capitolizing on divine qualities-- On the civic stage -- The last years of the republic -- Conclusions.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores an aspect of how Romans thought about themselves. Its subject is 'divine qualities': qualities like Concord, Faith, Hope, Clemency, Fortune, Freedom, Piety, and Victory, which received public cult in Rome in the Republican period. Anna Clark draws on a wide range of evidence (literature, drama, coins, architecture, inscriptions and graffiti) to show that these qualities were not simply given cult because they were intrinsically important to 'Romans'. They ratherbecame 'Roman' through claims, counter-claims, appropriations and explorations of them by different individuals. Th