Divine qualities : cult and community in Republican Rome / Anna J. Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Anna, 1974-

Series:

Oxford classical monographs.

Oxford classical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--Religion.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores an aspect of how Romans thought about themselves. Its subject is 'divine qualities': qualities like Concord, Faith, Hope, Clemency, Fortune, Freedom, Piety, and Victory, which received public cult in Rome in the Republican period. Anna Clark draws on a wide range of evidence (literature, drama, coins, architecture, inscriptions and graffiti) to show that these qualities were not simply given cult because they were intrinsically important to 'Romans'. They ratherbecame 'Roman' through claims, counter-claims, appropriations and explorations of them by different individuals. Th

Contents:

Divine qualities

Introducing new god(desse)s

Staging divine qualities

Capitolizing on divine qualities

On the civic stage

The last years of the republic

Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-348) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-15000-2

9786611150006

0-19-152770-X

1-4356-3111-0

OCLC:

192174584