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Divine qualities : cult and community in Republican Rome
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Divine qualities : cult and community in Republican Rome

Author: Anna Clark
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series: Oxford classical monographs.
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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  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Anna Clark
ISBN: 0199226822 9780199226825
OCLC Number: 123818272
Description: xiv, 376 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Divine qualities --
Introducing new god(desse)s --
Staging divine qualities--
Capitalizing on divine qualities--
On the civic stage --
The last years of the republic --
Conclusions.
Series Title: Oxford classical monographs.
Responsibility: Anna J. Clark.
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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 rather became 'Roman' through claims, counter-claims, appropriations and explorations of them by different individuals.

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This is a solid and thorough study... This valuable book effectively shows how Roman religion can be used to investigate how Romans thought about their own world Micol Perfigli, The Classical Review Read more...

 
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