Roman Republican Augury

Roman Republican Augury

Freedom and Control

Driediger-Murphy, Lindsay G.

Oxford University Press

03/2019

296

Dura

Inglês

9780198834434

15 a 20 dias

480

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Frontmatter
Texts and Abbreviations
0: Introduction
0.1: Of Gods and Men
0.2: Why Now?
0.3: What Is Needed?
0.4: How? Four Guiding Principles
1: Do As I Say, Not As I Do? Report versus Reality in Augury
1.1: Introduction
1.2: Principle 1 in the High and Late Empire: Comments on Signification
1.3: Principle 1 in the High and Late Empire: Claims that Augural Rules Gave Humans the Freedom to Accept or Reject Signs
1.4: Principle 1 in the Middle (and Late) Republic: Claims that Human Awareness of Signs Determined their Validity
1.5: Principle 2 in the Early Principate: The Claim that Augural Rules Gave Humans Freedom to 'Create' Signs by Reporting Them
1.6: Principle 2 in the Late Republic: The Claim that Humans Contrived Auspication so as to Receive Favourable Signs and Avoid Receiving Unfavourable Ones
1.7: Conclusions
2: Convenience or Conversation? Why 'Watching the Sky' was More than Wishful Thinking
2.1: Introduction
2.2: What Was Sky-Watching?
2.3: Did Sky-Watching Invariably Produce Signs?
2.4: Was Sky-Watching Technically Sufficient to Prohibit Assemblies?
2.5: Possible Objections: The Timing of Servare de Caelo
2.6: But Would It Actually Work?
Appendix: Ancient References to the Bibulus Affair
3: Out of Control? The Effects of Augury on Roman Public Life
3.1: Introduction
3.2: Motives, Part 1: Cicero, the Augurium Salutis, and the Limits of our Knowledge
3.3: Motives, Part 2: Two Methodological Problems and Two Abdicating Consuls
3.4: Motives, Part 3: The Consul, his Colleague, a Tribune, and Roman Respect for Augury
3.5: The Dynamics of State Divination
3.6: But Did It Really Matter?
3.7: Conclusion: When Signs Said No
4: Conclusion
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
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