Title Divination, prediction and the end of the Roman Republic / Federico Santangelo.

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : the power of signs -- The de diuinatione in context -- The terms of the debate -- Fringe divination? -- The haruspices and the rise of prophecy -- Etruscan ages and the end of the republic -- Alien sooth : the Sibylline Books -- Wild prophecies -- Foresight, prediction, and decline in Cicero's correspondence -- Between fortune and virtue : Sallust and the decline of Rome -- Divination, religious change, and the future of Rome in Livy -- Signs and prophecies in Virgil -- Divination and monarchy.
Summary	The first comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late Republic.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C.
	Divination -- Rome.
	Rome -- Politics and government -- 510-30 B.C.
	Political culture -- Rome -- History.
	Social change -- Rome -- History.
Chronological Term	510-30 B.C
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Santangelo, Federico. Divination, prediction and the end of the Roman Republic. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107026841 (DLC) 2012048526 (OCoLC)822028659
ISBN	9781107250215 (electronic book)
	1107250218 (electronic book)
	1139208659 (electronic book)
	9781139208659 (electronic book)
	9781107026841
	1107026849
	9781107248557 (EBL)
	1107248558