Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic

ISBN: 9781107240360 出版年：2013 页码：372 Federico Santangelo Cambridge University Press

Introduction - the power of signs 1. The De diuinatione in context 2. The terms of the debate 3. Fringe divination? 4. The haruspices and the rise of prophecy 5. Etruscan ages and the end of the Republic 6. Alien sooth: the Sibylline Books 7. Wild prophecies 8. Foresight, prediction, and decline in Cicero's correspondence 9. Between fortune and virtue: Sallust and the decline of Rome 10. Divination, religious change, and the future of Rome in Livy 11. Signs and prophecies in Virgil 12. The rise of monarchy Envoi - away from the future Appendix 1. Mark Antony and the election of Dolabella Appendix 2. Glossary.