Divination, prediction and the end of the Roman Republic [electronic resource] / Federico Santangelo.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the power of signs
- The de diuinatione in context
- The terms of the debate
- Fringe divination?
- The haruspices and the rise of prophecy
- Etruscan ages and the end of the republic
- Alien sooth : the Sibylline Books
- Wild prophecies
- Foresight, prediction, and decline in Cicero's correspondence
- Between fortune and virtue : Sallust and the decline of Rome
- Divination, religious change, and the future of Rome in Livy
- Signs and prophecies in Virgil
- Divination and monarchy.