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Roman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control proposes a new way of Professor in Latin and Roman Social/Religious
understanding augury, a form of Roman state divination designed to consult History at the University of Calgary, Canada.
the god Jupiter.
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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
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the study of Roman religion, politics, and cultural history by focusing instead Freedom and Control Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence
Henry Spelman
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with their gods.
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Daniel King
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
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which contradicted human wishes, and that its rules and precepts did not Republic to Principate
permit human beings to create or ignore signs at will. This analysis allows the Hannah Cornwell
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 Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy Orality and Performance in Classical
and desires, which did not always overlap with those of his human enquirers. Attic Prose
When human will and divine will clashed, it was the will of Jupiter which A Linguistic Approach
was supposed to prevail. In theory as in practice, it was the Romans, not Alessandro Vatri
their supreme god, who were bound by the auguries and auspices.
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