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Cicero and the rise of deification at Rome /
"This book tells a part of the back-story to major religious transformations emerging from the tumult of the late Republic. It considers the dynamic interplay of Cicero's approximations of mortals and immortals with a range of artifacts and activities that were collectively closing the div...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The cultural work of metaphor; Backgrounds: Greek divinization in Sicily; Divine assimilation in the early speeches; Pro lege Manilia: presenting the divine savior at Rome; Speculations and metaphorical frames: the consular year speeches; Chapter 2 Experiments and invented traditions; Cross-domain mapping in the post-exilic speeches; Pro Sestio: the Herculean statesmen of Rome; Authorizing apotheosis in the De re publica and De legibus; Chapter 3 Charting the posthumous path.
- Deferring deification in the Caesarian speechesExcavation and innovation: Tusculan Disputations; Chapter 4 Revisions and Rome's new god; De natura deorum and the question of elite skepticism; De senectute and De amicitia: Cato, Laelius, and the parallel world of Cicero's dialogues; The Philippics: exit Caesar, enter Octavian; Conclusions; References; Index.