Divine qualities [[electronic resource] ] : cult and community in Republican Rome / / Anna J. Clark
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| Autore: |
Clark Anna <1974->
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| Titolo: |
Divine qualities [[electronic resource] ] : cult and community in Republican Rome / / Anna J. Clark
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (391 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 292.07 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cults - Rome |
| Cults - Social aspects - Rome | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Rome Religion |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Divine qualities |
| ISBN: | 1-281-15000-2 |
| 9786611150006 | |
| 0-19-152770-X | |
| 1-4356-3111-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996209838003316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
Oxford classical monographs.