Divination, prediction and the end of the Roman Republic / Federico Santangelo.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: xi, 357 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781107026841 (hardback)
- DG254 .S253 2013
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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