Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic

ISBN-13: 9781009296359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 369 str.

Federico (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Santangelo

Opis

The first comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late Republic.

Recenzje

'Santangelo's book constitutes an important contribution to the growing body of literature on ancient divination. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers, and useful in charting many of the ways in which the practice of divination shaped and was shaped by the political and intellectual concerns of the last century of the Roman Republic.' William E. Klingshirn, The Classical Journal

Spis treści

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.