This book tells a part of the back-story to major religious
transformations emerging from the tumult of the late Republic. It
considers the dynamic interplay of Cicero's approximations of
mortals and immortals with a range of artifacts and activities that
were collectively closing the divide between humans and gods. A
guiding principle is that a major cultural player like Cicero had a
normative function in religious dialogues that could legitimize
incipient ideas like deification. Applying contemporary metaphor
theory, it analyzes the strategies and priorities configuring
Cicero's divinizing encomia of Roman dynasts like Pompey, Caesar
and Octavian. It also examines Cicero's explorations of apotheosis
and immortality in the De re publica and Tusculan Disputations as
well as his attempts to deify his daughter Tullia. In this book,
Professor Cole transforms our understanding not only of the
backgrounds to ruler worship but also of changing conceptions of
death and the afterlife.
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