Federico Santangelo is Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University. His previous publications include Sulla, the Elites and the Empire: A Study of Roman Policies in Italy and the Greek East (2007).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction - the power of signs 1. The De diuinatione in context 2. The terms of the debate 3. Fringe divination? 4. The haruspices and the rise of prophecy 5. Etruscan ages and the end of the Republic 6. Alien sooth: the Sibylline Books 7. Wild prophecies 8. Foresight, prediction, and decline in Cicero's correspondence 9. Between fortune and virtue: Sallust and the decline of Rome 10. Divination, religious change, and the future of Rome in Livy 11. Signs and prophecies in Virgil 12. The rise of monarchy Envoi - away from the future Appendix 1. Mark Antony and the election of Dolabella Appendix 2. Glossary.
Introduction - the power of signs 1. The De diuinatione in context 2. The terms of the debate 3. Fringe divination? 4. The haruspices and the rise of prophecy 5. Etruscan ages and the end of the Republic 6. Alien sooth: the Sibylline Books 7. Wild prophecies 8. Foresight, prediction, and decline in Cicero's correspondence 9. Between fortune and virtue: Sallust and the decline of Rome 10. Divination, religious change, and the future of Rome in Livy 11. Signs and prophecies in Virgil 12. The rise of monarchy Envoi - away from the future Appendix 1. Mark Antony and the election of Dolabella Appendix 2. Glossary.
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