Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic

Informationen zum Autor Federico Santangelo is Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University. His previous publications include Sulla, the Elites and the Empire: A Study of Roman Policies in Italy and the Greek East (2007). Klappentext The first comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late Republic. Zusammenfassung The first comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics! culture and divination in the late Republic! in the context of complex religious! political and intellectual developments. The book draws on a wide range of literary! iconographic and archaeological evidence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - the power of signs; 1. The De diuinatione in context; 2. The terms of the debate; 3. Fringe divination?; 4. The haruspices and the rise of prophecy; 5. Etruscan ages and the end of the Republic; 6. Alien sooth: the Sibylline Books; 7. Wild prophecies; 8. Foresight, prediction, and decline in Cicero's correspondence; 9. Between fortune and virtue: Sallust and the decline of Rome; 10. Divination, religious change, and the future of Rome in Livy; 11. Signs and prophecies in Virgil; 12. The rise of monarchy; Envoi - away from the future; Appendix 1. Mark Antony and the election of Dolabella; Appendix 2. Glossary.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Federico Santangelo, Federico (University of Newcastle Upon Santangelo, Santangelo Federico
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 09.05.2013
• EAN: 9781107026841
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02684-1
• Seiten: 370
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, History of Religion, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient religions & mythologies, New Testaments, BCE period – Protohistory, Fortune-telling & divination, Biblical Studies & Exegesis