Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic

Bibliographic Data

ID19890993
AuthorsFederico Santangelo (0000-0003-4222-5841, Newcastle University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-05-09
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueDivination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139208659
OpenAlexW1534134011
Open LibraryOL34561149M
ISBN9781139208659
LanguageEN
Citations received33

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late Republic. It discusses how the practice of divination changed at a time of great political and social change and explores the evidence for a critical reflection and debate on the limits of divination and prediction in the second and first centuries BC. Divination was a central feature in the workings of the Roman government and this book explores the ways in which it changed under the pressure of factors of socio-political complexity and disruption. It discusses the ways in which the problem of the prediction of the future is constructed in the literature of the period. Finally, it explores the impact that the emergence of the Augustan regime had on the place of divination in Rome and the role that divinatory themes had in shaping the ideology of the new regime

Art · Divination · Epistemology · Ideology · Literature · Political science · Political structure · Politics · The Republic · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Culture · politics and government · Rome · Social change

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