Cicero and Roman Religion

Eight Studies
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-515-12643-4
Verlag: Franz Steiner

Buch, Deutsch, Englisch, 154 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

Reihe: Classics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beltrao da Rosa, Claudia

Santangelo, Federico

Beltrão da Rosa, Claudia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Beltrao da Rosa, Claudia
Claudia Beltrão da Rosa is Professor of Ancient History at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO).

Santangelo, Federico
Federico Santangelo is Professor of Ancient History at Newcastle University.