Law and Divination in the Late Roman Republic

In this chapter the author explores the links and the interaction between divination and law in a positive sense, by discussing the lines of contact between these two crucial areas of Roman intellectual life. The affinities between divination and law have been widely explored in the scholarly literature in a number of different cultures. The author intends to concentrate on three problems. First, he deals with the late Republican debate on the relationship between augury and divination, which should be understood as part of a broader reflection on augural law. Secondly, he discusses some uses of the word divinatio in a legal context, trying to consider how the boundaries between divination and law were debated and defined between the second and the first centuries bc. Finally, the author explores the concepts of prudentia and prudens , the relationship of which with the divinatory and legal spheres calls for further scrutiny. Keywords:augural law; Divination; Roman

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