Cicero and Roman Religion (eBook)

Eight Studies

Claudia Beltrao da Rosa, Federico Santangelo (Herausgeber)

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2020 | 1. Auflage
154 Seiten
Franz Steiner Verlag
978-3-515-12644-1 (ISBN)

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This e-book gathers eight papers devoted to specific aspects of Cicero's engagement with Roman religion, and seeks to make a wider contribution to the understanding of Cicero's work as historical evidence. By engaging with religion as a fundamental factor of social cohesion and political stability, both in his theoretical works and his speeches, Cicero shaped a wide-ranging and ambitious discourse around themes and images that were firmly located in first-century BCE Rome. His contribution also proved very influential in the centuries to come.

The volume focuses on the relationship between law, religion, and religious authority in Cicero; the interplay between divine images, ritual contexts, and the conceptualization of the divine; Cicero's construction of a Greek deity for a Roman audience; the role of religious elements in the shaping of a Roman political identity; the tension between 'natural law' and Roman pietas; the problem of divine and human foresight; the relationship between theoretical views of the gods and late Republican public cult; and the reception, use, and readaptation of Ciceronian theology in the English Enlightenment.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.4.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Antike • augurs • Cicero • divine images • Enlightenment • Ontophany • Polytheism • Religious Fundamentalism • Roman identity • Roman Religion
• ISBN-10: 3-515-12644-9 / 3515126449
• ISBN-13: 978-3-515-12644-1 / 9783515126441