Roman Republican augury: freedom and control

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...

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1. Verfasser: Driediger-Murphy, Lindsay 1983- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2019
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Oxford classical monographs
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:This edition previously issued in print: 2018. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:9780191872495
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198834434.001.0001

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