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Clark, Anna J.

DIVINE QUALITIES Cult and Community in Republican Rome Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Oxford University Press, 2007

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Anno di pubblicazione
2007
Autore
Clark, Anna J.
Editori
Oxford University Press
Soggetto
Roman Republic Social & Cultural Paganism
Descrizione
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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Hardcover ISBN 0199226822

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Hard bump to 1 corner. Small corrections in pen to about 8 pages by R. E. Fantham. Light shelfwear to DJ. ; 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. The resources brought into existence by cult (temples, altars, coin images, statues, passwords, votive inscriptions) were visible and accessible to a broad range of people. Divine qualities were relevant to a broader social spectrum than is usually recognized, and this has important consequences for our understanding of Roman society. ; Oxford Classical Monographs; 380 pages