This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the intersection
between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late
Republic. It discusses how the practice of divination changed at a
time of great political and social change and explores the evidence
for a critical reflection and debate on the limits of divination
and prediction in the second and first centuries BC. Divination was
a central feature in the workings of the Roman government and this
book explores the ways in which it changed under the pressure of
factors of socio-political complexity and disruption. It discusses
the ways in which the problem of the prediction of the future is
constructed in the literature of the period. Finally, it explores
the impact that the emergence of the Augustan regime had on the
place of divination in Rome and the role that divinatory themes had
in shaping the ideology of the new regime.
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