Cicero and Roman Religion
Eight Studies
Edited by Claudia Beltrao da Rosa Edited by Federico Santangelo
Paperback (Published)
(April 2020)
ISBN: 9783515126434
6.69 x 9.49 inches
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This 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.
This 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.
- Edited by Claudia Beltrao da Rosa
- Edited by Federico Santangelo
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Sertorius, the Exiles of the Sullan Regime and the Provinces of the Empire
Legitimacy, Morality and Imperial Discourse in the 70s BCE
From “Roma quadrata” to “la grande Roma dei Tarquini”
A Study of the Literary Tradition on Rome's Territorial Growth under the Kings
Language and Power in the Roman Empire and Early India
Hierarchy, Ambiguity, and the Art of Reading the Signs in Cosmopolitan Cultures
Religiöse Geheimniskommunikation in der Mittleren und Späten Römischen Republik
Separatheit, gesellschaftliche Öffentlichkeit und zivisches Ordnungshandeln
Vestigia
Miscellanea di studi storico-religiosi in onore di Filippo Coarelli nel suo 80° anniversario
Burial Rituals, Ideas of Afterlife, and the Individual in the Hellenistic World and the Roman Empire
Citizenship Practised, Citizenship Imagined
Multiple Ways of Experiencing Citizenship in the Greek World
Gespräche mit Göttern
Die poetologische Funktion kommunikativer Kultbilder bei Horaz, Tibull und Properz
Aspects of Roman Dance Culture
Religious Cults, Theatrical Entertainments, Metaphorical Appropriations
Zur literarischen Fiktion von Kindheit
Überlegungen zu den apokryphen Kindheitsevangelien Jesu im Rahmen der antiken Biographie
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