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Cicero and the Rise of Deification at Rome Hardcover - 2014

by Spencer Cole


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This book tells a part of the back-story to major religious transformations emerging from the tumult of the late Republic. It considers the dynamic interplay of Cicero's approximations of mortals and immortals with a range of artifacts and activities that were collectively closing the divide between humans and gods. A guiding principle is that a major cultural player like Cicero had a normative function in religious dialogues that could legitimize incipient ideas like deification. Applying contemporary metaphor theory, it analyzes the strategies and priorities configuring Cicero's divinizing encomia of Roman dynasts like Pompey, Caesar and Octavian. It also examines Cicero's explorations of apotheosis and immortality in the De re publica and Tusculan Disputations as well as his attempts to deify his daughter Tullia. In this book, Professor Cole transforms our understanding not only of the backgrounds to ruler worship but also of changing conceptions of death and the afterlife.

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  • Title Cicero and the Rise of Deification at Rome
  • Author Spencer Cole
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Date 2014-01-09
  • ISBN 9781107032507 / 1107032504
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Classics
  • Library of Congress subjects Cicero, Marcus Tullius, Emperor worship - Rome
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013021439
  • Dewey Decimal Code 292.07
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