Divination, prediction and the end of the Roman Republic /
The first comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late Republic.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.