Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic

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Cambridge University Press, 9 במאי 2013 - 357 עמודים
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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The De diuinatione in context
10
The terms of the debate
37
Fringe divination?
69
The haruspices and the rise of prophecy
84
Etruscan ages and the end of the Republic
115
the Sibylline Books
128
Wild prophecies
149
Foresight prediction and decline in Ciceros correspondence
174
Divination religious change and the future of Rome in Livy
192
Signs and prophecies in Virgil
220
Divination and monarchy
235
away from the future
267
Mark Antony the augur and the election of Dolabella
273
Glossary
279
Index locorum
337
General index
349

Sallust and the decline of Rome
182

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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).

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