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Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic

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by Federico Santangelo (university Of Newcastle Upon Tyne)

    • Author

      Federico Santangelo (university Of Newcastle Upon Tyne)

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Cambridge University Press

    • Published

      May 2013

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      Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic

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      Product Description

      This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late Republic.

      It discusses how the practice of divination changed at a time of great political and social change and explores the evidence for a critical reflection and debate on the limits of divination and prediction in the second and first centuries BC. Divination was a central feature in the workings of the Roman government and this book explores the ways in which it changed under the pressure of factors of socio-political complexity and disruption. It discusses the ways in which the problem of the prediction of the future is constructed in the literature of the period.

      Finally, it explores the impact that the emergence of the Augustan regime had on the place of divination in Rome and the role that divinatory themes had in shaping the ideology of the new regime.

      • Provides a comprehensive discussion of Roman divination in the late Republic and early Principate
      • Discusses divination against the backdrop of wider intellectual developments
      • Engages with a wide range of Continental European scholarship, to present readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date picture of the topic

      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.

      Specification

      • Author

        Federico Santangelo (university Of Newcastle Upon Tyne)

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Cambridge University Press

      • Published

        May 2013

      • Weight

        663g

      • Page Count

        370

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 23 mm

      • ISBN

        9781107026841

      • ISBN-10

        1107026849

      • Eden Code

        4062148

      More Information

      • Author/Creator: Federico Santangelo (university Of Newcastle Upon Tyne)

      • ISBN: 9781107026841

      • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

      • Release Date: May 2013

      • Weight: 663g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 23 mm

      • Eden Code: 4062148


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