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Divination, prediction and the end of the Roman Republic / Federico Santangelo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: xi, 357 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107026841 (hardback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DG254 .S253 2013
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Printed Books Accademia di Danimarca Biblioteca AN/re. SantFed 01 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan 201501123122ACDAN

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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