Spencer Cole

Cicero and the Rise of Deification at Rome

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An innovative case study in religious change in Rome that examines how Cicero explores and experiments with concepts of deification.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 323g
• ISBN-13: 9781108730037
• ISBN-10: 1108730035
• Artikelnr.: 54641039

Autorenporträt

Spencer Cole is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. His publications include articles on Roman religion in both the republican and imperial periods, Augustan poetry, and Greek drama. He is also a contributor to The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The cultural work of metaphor
2. Experiments and invented traditions
3. Charting the posthumous path
4. Revisions and Rome's new god
Conclusions.