Troster,Manuel.
Themes, character, and politics in Plutarch's Life of Lucullus : the construction of a Roman aristocrat.
Edited by Claudia Beltrao Da Rosa (a cura di), Federico Santangelo. Franz Steiner Verlag
2008,
cm.18x24,
pp.205,
legatura editoriale cartonata.
Postdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beitrage.,201. Con una ampia lettera autografa a penna dell'autore ad una nota studiosa fiorentina di storia antica.
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.
EAN:
9783515091244
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