Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic
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Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic

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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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781107240360
Topic
Geschichte
Subtopic
Altertum

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Introduction The power of signs
  6. Chapter 1 The De diuinatione in context
  7. Chapter 2 The terms of the debate
  8. Chapter 3 Fringe divination?
  9. Chapter 4 The haruspices and the rise of prophecy
  10. Chapter 5 Etruscan ages and the end of the Republic
  11. Chapter 6 Alien sooth: the Sibylline Books
  12. Chapter 7 Wild prophecies
  13. Chapter 8 Foresight, prediction and decline in Ciceros correspondence
  14. Chapter 9 Between fortune and virtue
  15. Chapter 10 Divination, religious change and the future of Rome in Livy
  16. Chapter 11 Signs and prophecies in Virgil
  17. Chapter 12 Divination and monarchy
  18. Envoi Away from the future
  19. Appendix Mark Antony the augur and the election of Dolabella
  20. Glossary
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index locorum
  23. General index