Divination, prediction and the end of the Roman Republic /

Main Author: Santangelo, Federico
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
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300 |a xii, 357 p. ;   |c 24 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 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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650 0 |a Political culture   |x History  |z Rome  
650 0 |a Social change   |x History  |z Rome  
651 0 |a Rome   |x History   |y Republic, 265-30 B.C. 
651 0 |a Rome   |x Politics and government   |y 510-30 B.C. 
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