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  • Roman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control

    Roman Republican Augury by Driediger-Murphy, Lindsay G.;

    Freedom and Control

    Sorozatcím: Oxford Classical Monographs;

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    • Kiadó OUP Oxford
    • Megjelenés dátuma 2019. március 13.

    • ISBN 9780198834434
    • Kötéstípus Keménykötés
    • Terjedelem296 oldal
    • Méret 223x157x22 mm
    • Súly 480 g
    • Nyelv angol
    • 20

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    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...

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    Tartalomjegyzék:

    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

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