- 162 pages
- English
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction (Claudia Beltrão da Rosa / Federico Santangelo)
- Cicero, the Augures, and the Commonwealth in De Legibus (Valentina Arena)
- The God and the Consul in Cicero’s Third Catilinarian (Claudia Beltrão da Rosa)
- The Ontophanies of Diana in Segesta (Cicero, Verrines 2 4 72–82) (Patricia Horvat / Alexandre Carneiro C. Lima)
- A Reading of Cicero’s De Haruspicum Responso. Some Reflections on Roman Identity (MarÃa Emilia Cairo)
- Epicurean pietas and Political Action in Lucretius and Cicero (Maria Eichler)
- Cicero on Divine and Human Foresight (Federico Santangelo)
- Foreign Gods in the Age of Cicero (Greg Woolf)
- Editing Ciceronian Religion in the Enlightenment (Katherine A. East)
- General Index
- Index Locorum