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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Santangelo, Federico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.