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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 March 2019
- ISBN 9780198834434
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 223x157x22 mm
- Weight 480 g
- Language English 20
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Short description:
Scholarship on Roman Republican augury has previously tended towards the view that official divination was organized to tell its users what they wanted to hear. This volume argues instead that its rules did not allow humans simply to create or ignore signs at will: when human and divine will clashed it was the latter which was supposed to prevail.
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Roman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control proposes a new way of understanding augury, a form of Roman state divination designed to consult the god Jupiter.
Previous scholarly studies of augury have tended to focus either upon its legal-constitutional effects or upon its role in maintaining and perpetuating Roman social and political structures. This volume makes a new contribution to the study of Roman religion, politics, and cultural history by focusing instead upon what augury can tell us about how Romans understood their relationship with their gods.
Augury is often thought to have told Romans what they wanted to hear. This volume argues that augury left space for perceived expressions of divine will which contradicted human wishes, and that its rules and precepts did not permit human beings to create or ignore signs at will. This analysis allows the Jupiter whom Romans approached in augury to emerge as not simply a source of power to be channelled to human ends, but a person with his own interests and desires, which did not always overlap with those of his human enquirers. When human will and divine will clashed, it was the will of Jupiter which was supposed to prevail. In theory as in practice, it was the Romans, not their supreme god, who were bound by the auguries and auspices.
It is well informed, well written, and pays scrupulous attention to the sources...
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
Texts and Abbreviations
Introduction
Of Gods and Men
Why Now?
What Is Needed?
How? Four Guiding Principles
Do As I Say, Not As I Do? Report versus Reality in Augury
Introduction
Principle 1 in the High and Late Empire: Comments on Signification
Principle 1 in the High and Late Empire: Claims that Augural Rules Gave Humans the Freedom to Accept or Reject Signs
Principle 1 in the Middle (and Late) Republic: Claims that Human Awareness of Signs Determined their Validity
Principle 2 in the Early Principate: The Claim that Augural Rules Gave Humans Freedom to 'Create' Signs by Reporting Them
Principle 2 in the Late Republic: The Claim that Humans Contrived Auspication so as to Receive Favourable Signs and Avoid Receiving Unfavourable Ones
Conclusions
Convenience or Conversation? Why 'Watching the Sky' was More than Wishful Thinking
Introduction
What Was Sky-Watching?
Did Sky-Watching Invariably Produce Signs?
Was Sky-Watching Technically Sufficient to Prohibit Assemblies?
Possible Objections: The Timing of Servare de Caelo
But Would It Actually Work?
Appendix: Ancient References to the Bibulus Affair
Out of Control? The Effects of Augury on Roman Public Life
Introduction
Motives, Part 1: Cicero, the Augurium Salutis, and the Limits of our Knowledge
Motives, Part 2: Two Methodological Problems and Two Abdicating Consuls
Motives, Part 3: The Consul, his Colleague, a Tribune, and Roman Respect for Augury
The Dynamics of State Divination
But Did It Really Matter?
Conclusion: When Signs Said No
Conclusion
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
