Название: Roman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control
Автор: Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198834438
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 304
Размер: 1,6 МБ
Язык: Английский
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 aspects (especially its place in defining, structuring, and circumscribing the precise constitutional powers of magistrates), or upon its role in maintaining and perpetuating Roman social and political structures (primarily as a tool of the elite).