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.
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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783515126434
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-515-12643-4
- Verlag: Steiner Franz Verlag
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.04.2020
- Sprache(n): Deutsch,Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2020
- Serie: Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 290 g
- Seiten: 154
- Format (B x H): 170 x 240 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt