| Description |
xii, 357 p. : ill. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Divination -- Rome.
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Political culture -- Rome -- History.
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Social change -- Rome -- History.
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Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C.
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Rome -- Politics and government -- 510-30 B.C.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781107026841 (hardback) |
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9781107248557 (electronic bk.) |
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