Federico Santangelo (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 369
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781009296359
• ISBN-10: 1009296353
• Artikelnr.: 64261520

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.