Roman republican augury: freedom and control
Auteur :
Driediger-Murphy, Lindsay G.
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198834434
Date de publication :
13 mars 2019
Dimensions :
22,3 x 15,7 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
480 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.