Cicero And The Rise Of Deification At Rome

Author : Spencer Cole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107656352

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Cicero and the Rise of Deification at Rome by Spencer Cole Pdf

This book tells a part of the back-story to major religious transformations emerging from the tumult of the late Republic. It considers the dynamic interplay of Cicero's approximations of mortals and immortals with a range of artifacts and activities that were collectively closing the divide between humans and gods. A guiding principle is that a major cultural player like Cicero had a normative function in religious dialogues that could legitimize incipient ideas like deification. Applying contemporary metaphor theory, it analyzes the strategies and priorities configuring Cicero's divinizing encomia of Roman dynasts like Pompey, Caesar and Octavian. It also examines Cicero's explorations of apotheosis and immortality in the De re publica and Tusculan Disputations as well as his attempts to deify his daughter Tullia. In this book, Professor Cole transforms our understanding not only of the backgrounds to ruler worship but also of changing conceptions of death and the afterlife.

Author : Spencer Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107598265

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Cicero and the Rise of Deification at Rome by Spencer Cole Pdf

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

Author : Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107140066

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Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws by Marcus Tullius Cicero Pdf

The second edition of James E. G. Zetzel's masterly translation of Cicero's major works of political philosophy, On the Commonwealth and On the Laws.

Author : Nathan Gilbert,Margaret Graver,Sean McConnell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781009170338

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Power and Persuasion in Cicero's Philosophy by Nathan Gilbert,Margaret Graver,Sean McConnell Pdf

Explores Cicero's thought on a range of issues including political leadership, persuasive rhetoric, and the right use of power.

Author : D. H. Berry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195326468

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Cicero's Catilinarians by D. H. Berry Pdf

The Catilinarians are a set of four speeches that Cicero, while consul in 63 BC, delivered before the senate and the Roman people against the conspirator Catiline and his followers. Or are they? Cicero did not publish the speeches until three years later, and he substantially revised them before publication, rewriting some passages and adding others, all with the aim of justifying the action he had taken against the conspirators and memorializing his own role in the suppression of the conspiracy. How, then, should we interpret these speeches as literature? Can we treat them as representing what Cicero actually said? Or do we have to read them merely as political pamphlets from a later time? In this, the first book-length discussion of these famous speeches, D. H. Berry clarifies what the speeches actually are and explains how he believes we should approach them. In addition, the book contains a full and up-to-date account of the Catilinarian conspiracy and a survey of the influence that the story of Catiline has had on writers such as Sallust and Virgil, Ben Jonson and Henrik Ibsen, from antiquity to the present day.

Author : David Boucher,Paul Kelly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political science
ISBN : 9780198708926

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Political Thinkers by David Boucher,Paul Kelly Pdf

An introduction to the history of Western political thought written by scholars from four continents. This collection provides an overview of the canon of great theorists from Socrates and the Sophist to contemporary thinkers such as Habermas and Foucault.

Author : M. David Litwa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000606089

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Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes by M. David Litwa Pdf

Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes is the definitive study of the early Christian theologian Carpocrates, his son Epiphanes, and the leader of the Carpocratian movement in Rome, Marcellina. It contains the first full-length study of and commentary on the fragments of Epiphanes, the earliest reports on Carpocrates and Marcellina, as well as the Epistle to Theodore (containing the so-called Secret Gospel of Mark). Readers also encounter an up-to-date history of research on the Carpocratian movement, and three full profiles of all we can know from the earliest Carpocratian leaders. Written in an accessible style, but based on the most careful historical and linguistic research, this volume is a landmark, helping to redefine the field of early Christian history. Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes is a welcome addition to the libraries of all students of early Christian theology, researchers investigating early Christian diversity, and scholars of Gnostic, Nag Hammadi and related materials.

Author : Katharina Volk
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691253954

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The Roman Republic of Letters by Katharina Volk Pdf

An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic—and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war In The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion. It was a period of intense cultural flourishing and extreme political unrest—and the agents of each were very often the same people. Members of the senatorial class, including Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Cato, Varro, and Nigidius Figulus, contributed greatly to the development of Roman scholarship and engaged in a lively and often polemical exchange with one another. These men were also crucially involved in the tumultuous events that brought about the collapse of the Republic, and they ended up on opposite sides in the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the early 40s. Volk treats the intellectual and political activities of these “senator scholars” as two sides of the same coin, exploring how scholarship and statesmanship mutually informed one another—and how the acquisition, organization, and diffusion of knowledge was bound up with the question of what it meant to be a Roman in a time of crisis. By revealing how first-century Rome’s remarkable “republic of letters” was connected to the fight over the actual res publica, Volk’s riveting account captures the complexity of this pivotal period.

Author : Kit Morrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191071249

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Pompey, Cato, and the Governance of the Roman Empire by Kit Morrell Pdf

Provincial governance under the Roman republic has long been notorious for its corrupt officials and greedy tax-farmers, though this is far from being the whole story. This book challenges the traditional picture, contending that leading late republican citizens were more concerned about the problems of their empire than is generally recognized, and took effective steps to address them. Attempts to improve provincial governance over the period 70-50 BC are examined in depth, with a particular focus on the contributions of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey) and the younger Marcus Porcius Cato. These efforts ranged well beyond the sanctions of the extortion law, encompassing show trials and model governors, and drawing on principles of moral philosophy. In 52-50 BC they culminated in a coordinated reform programme which combined far-sighted administrative change with a concerted attempt to transform the ethos of provincial governance: the union of what Cicero called 'Cato's policy' of ethical governance with Pompey's lex de provinciis, a law which transformed the very nature of provincial command. Though more familiar as political opponents, Pompey and Cato were united in their interest in good governance and were capable of working alongside each other to effect positive change. This book demonstrates that it was their eventual collaboration, in the late 50s BC, that produced the republic's most significant programme of provincial reform. In the process, it offers a new perspective on these two key figures as well as an enriched understanding of provincial governance in the late Roman republic.

Author : Bobby Xinyue
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192668486

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Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry by Bobby Xinyue Pdf

Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry offers a new interpretation of one of the most prominent themes in Latin poetry, the divinization of Augustus, and argues that this theme functioned as a language of political science for the early Augustan poets as they tried to come to terms with Rome's transformation from Republic to Principate. Examining an extensive body of texts ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Horace's final book of the Odes (covering a period roughly from 43 BC to 13 BC), this study highlights the multifaceted metaphorical force of divinizing language, as well as the cultural complications of divinization. Through a series of close readings, this book challenges the view that poetic images of Augustus' divinization merely reflect the poets' attitude towards Augustus or their recognition of his power, and puts forward a new understanding of this motif as an evolving discourse through which the first generation of Augustan poets articulated, interrogated, and negotiated Rome's shift towards authoritarianism.

Author : James Leigh Strachan-Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:32044051143303

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Cicero and the Fall of the Roman Republic by James Leigh Strachan-Davidson Pdf

Author : Sophia Papaioannou,Andreas Serafim,Kyriakos Demetriou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110699623

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Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome by Sophia Papaioannou,Andreas Serafim,Kyriakos Demetriou Pdf

It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural institutions and structures, while also being influenced, or even determined, by them. Rhetoric is used to address the divine, to invoke the gods, to talk about the sacred, to express piety and to articulate, refer to, recite or explain the meaning of hymns, oaths, prayers, oracles and other religious matters and processes. The 13 contributions to this volume explore themes and topics that most succinctly describe the firm interrelation between religion and rhetoric mostly in, but not exclusively focused on, Greek and Roman antiquity, offering new, interdisciplinary insights into a great variety of aspects, from identity construction and performance to legal/political practices and a broad analytical approach to transcultural ritualistic customs. The volume also offers perceptive insights into oriental (i.e. Egyptian magic) texts and Christian literature.

Author : Anthony Briggman,Ellen Scully
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813235349

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New Narratives for Old by Anthony Briggman,Ellen Scully Pdf

Guilds and conferences have grown up around historical theology, yet no volume has ever been dedicated to the definition and illustration of the method undergirding historical theology. This volume both defines and illustrates the methodology of historical theology, especially as it relates to the study of early Christianity, and situates historical theology among other methodological approaches to early Christianity, including confessional apologetics, constructive theology, and socio-cultural history. Historical theology as a discipline stands in contrast to these other approaches to the study of early Christianity. In contrast to systematic or constructive approaches, it remains essentially historical, with a desire to elucidate the past rather than speak to the present. In contrast to socio-historical approaches, it remains essentially theological, with a concern to value and understand the full complexity of the abstract thought world that stands behind the textual tradition of early Christian theology. Moreover, historical theology is characterized by the methodological presupposition that, unless good reason exists to think otherwise, the theological accounts of the ancient church articulate the genuine beliefs of their authors. The significance of this volume lies in the methodological definition it offers. The strength of this volume lies in the fact that its definition of the historical method of studying theology is not the work of a single mind but that of over twenty respected scholars, many of whom are leaders in the field. The volume begins with an introductory essay that orients readers to various approaches to early Christian literature, it moves to two technical essays that define the historical method of studying early Christian theology, and then it illustrates the practice of this method with more than twenty essays that cover a period stretching from the first century to the dawn of the seventh.

Author : Theodore D. Papanghelis,Stephen J. Harrison,Stavros Frangoulidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110303698

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Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature by Theodore D. Papanghelis,Stephen J. Harrison,Stavros Frangoulidis Pdf

Neither older empiricist positions that genre is an abstract concept, useless for the study of individual works of literature, nor the recent (post) modern reluctance to subject literary production to any kind of classification seem to have stilled the discussion on the various aspects of genre in classical literature. Having moved from more or less essentialist and/or prescriptive positions towards a more dynamic conception of the generic model, research on genre is currently considering "pushing beyond the boundaries", "impurity", "instability", "enrichment" and "genre-bending". The aim of this volume is to raise questions of such generic mobility in Latin literature. The papers explore ways in which works assigned to a particular generic area play host to formal and substantive elements associated with different or even opposing genres; assess literary works which seem to challenge perceived generic norms; highlight, along the literary-historical, the ideological and political backgrounds to "dislocations" of the generic map.

Author : Fergus J. King
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161595455

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Epicureanism and the Gospel of John by Fergus J. King Pdf

The Gospel of John and Epicureanism share vocabulary and reject the conventions of Graeco-Roman theology. Would it then have been easy for an Epicurean to become a Christian or vice-versa? Fergus J. King suggests that such claims become unlikely when detailed analyses of the two traditions are set out and compared. The first step in his examination looks at evidence for potential engagement between the two traditions historically and geographically. Both traditions address concerns about the good life, death, and the divine. However, this correspondence soon unravels as their worldviews are far from identical. Shared terms (like Saviour), their respective rituals, and teaching about community life reveal substantial differences in ethos and behaviour.