Divination, prediction and the end of the Roman Republic [electronic resource] / Federico Santangelo.

By: Santangelo, FedericoContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: xii, 357 p. : illISBN: 9781107248557 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Divination -- Rome | Political culture -- Rome -- History | Social change -- Rome -- History | Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C | Rome -- Politics and government -- 510-30 B.CGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 937/.09 LOC classification: DG254 | .S253 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : the power of signs -- The de diuinatione in context -- The terms of the debate -- Fringe divination? -- The haruspices and the rise of prophecy -- Etruscan ages and the end of the republic -- Alien sooth : the Sibylline Books -- Wild prophecies -- Foresight, prediction, and decline in Cicero's correspondence -- Between fortune and virtue : Sallust and the decline of Rome -- Divination, religious change, and the future of Rome in Livy -- Signs and prophecies in Virgil -- Divination and monarchy.
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Introduction : the power of signs -- The de diuinatione in context -- The terms of the debate -- Fringe divination? -- The haruspices and the rise of prophecy -- Etruscan ages and the end of the republic -- Alien sooth : the Sibylline Books -- Wild prophecies -- Foresight, prediction, and decline in Cicero's correspondence -- Between fortune and virtue : Sallust and the decline of Rome -- Divination, religious change, and the future of Rome in Livy -- Signs and prophecies in Virgil -- Divination and monarchy.

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