Cicero, de Haruspicum Responsis: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press (UK)ISBN-13:9780192868954ISBN-10:192868950UPC:9780192868954Book Category:History, Literary Collections, ReligionBook Subcategory:Ancient, Ancient, Classical & MedievalSize:9.00 x 6.40 x 1.80 inchesWeight:1.702Product ID:SCDY3W7RXT
Cicero, de Haruspicum Responsis: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary
During the Roman Republic, any unnatural event occurring in nature--from a talking cow to a hermaphrodite to an earthquake--was deemed a prodigium. A prodigy signaled awareness of a rupture of order not only in nature but in politics and morality. As a result of its cosmic significance, any potential prodigy demanded authentication. Unsurprisingly, prodigies proliferate during political crises,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University Press (UK)ISBN-13:9780192868954ISBN-10:192868950UPC:9780192868954Book Category:History, Literary Collections, ReligionBook Subcategory:Ancient, Ancient, Classical & MedievalSize:9.00 x 6.40 x 1.80 inchesWeight:1.702Product ID:SCDY3W7RXT
Anthony Corbeill, Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics, University of Virginia Anthony Corbeill is Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and is author of Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic (Princeton, 1996), Nature Embodied: Gesture in Ancient Rome (Princeton,...
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