Book contents
- Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity
- Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Philosophical Perspectives on Divination, Revelation, and Prophecy
- Part II Status, Role, and Functions of Human Intermediaries
- Part III Divine Transcendence and Pragmatic Purposes
- Chapter 9 Revelation and Roman Augury
- Chapter 10 ‘For Thy Kingdom Is Past Not Away, / Nor Thy Power from the Place Thereof Hurled’
- Chapter 11 ‘No Longer Does Phoebus Have a Cabin’
- Index
- References
Chapter 9 - Revelation and Roman Augury
from Part III - Divine Transcendence and Pragmatic Purposes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2023
Book contents
- Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity
- Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Philosophical Perspectives on Divination, Revelation, and Prophecy
- Part II Status, Role, and Functions of Human Intermediaries
- Part III Divine Transcendence and Pragmatic Purposes
- Chapter 9 Revelation and Roman Augury
- Chapter 10 ‘For Thy Kingdom Is Past Not Away, / Nor Thy Power from the Place Thereof Hurled’
- Chapter 11 ‘No Longer Does Phoebus Have a Cabin’
- Index
- References
Summary
This paper explores the relevance of the concept of revelation in Roman augury. Although augury is often regarded, not without reason, as being preoccupied with matters of narrow import and significance, it is a craft based on the detection and interpretation of divine signs, and thus builds into its operating process the question of the extent and quality to which the gods disclose to mankind their will and their attitudes. Revelation thus proves a productive vantage point on the workings of Roman augury, and more broadly of Roman public divination.
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- Divination and Revelation in Later Antiquity , pp. 179 - 190Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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