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.
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