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Divination, prediction and the end of the Roman Republic /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Santangelo, Federico
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Rome > History > Republic, 265-30 B.C.
Divination > Rome.
Rome > Politics and government > 510-30 B.C.
Political culture > Rome > History.
Social change > Rome > History.
Table of 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.