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Divination, prediction and the end of the Roman Republic / / Federico Santangelo



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Autore: Santangelo Federico Visualizza persona
Titolo: Divination, prediction and the end of the Roman Republic / / Federico Santangelo Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 357 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 937/.09
Soggetto topico: Divination - Rome
Political culture - Rome - History
Social change - Rome - History
Soggetto geografico: Rome History Republic, 265-30 B.C
Rome Politics and government 510-30 B.C
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction : the power of signs -- The de diuinatione in context -- The terms of the debate -- Fringe divination? -- The haruspices and the rise of prophecy -- Etruscan ages and the end of the Republic -- Alien sooth : the Sibylline Books -- Wild prophecies -- Foresight, prediction, and decline in Cicero's correspondence -- Between fortune and virtue : Sallust and the decline of Rome -- Divination, religious change, and the future of Rome in Livy -- Signs and prophecies in Virgil -- Divination and monarchy.
Sommario/riassunto: This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late Republic. It discusses how the practice of divination changed at a time of great political and social change and explores the evidence for a critical reflection and debate on the limits of divination and prediction in the second and first centuries BC. Divination was a central feature in the workings of the Roman government and this book explores the ways in which it changed under the pressure of factors of socio-political complexity and disruption. It discusses the ways in which the problem of the prediction of the future is constructed in the literature of the period. Finally, it explores the impact that the emergence of the Augustan regime had on the place of divination in Rome and the role that divinatory themes had in shaping the ideology of the new regime.
Altri titoli varianti: Divination, Prediction & the End of the Roman Republic
Titolo autorizzato: Divination, prediction and the end of the Roman Republic  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9781139208659
9781107250215
1-107-24149-9
1-139-88936-2
1-107-24772-1
1-107-25021-8
1-107-24855-8
1-139-20865-9
1-107-25104-4
1-107-24938-4
9781107026841
1107026849
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823202303321
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