03171nam a2200553Ki 4500 ocn867631036 OCoLC 20200709060007.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 140107s2013 enk o 000 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T 9781107689848 (electronic bk.) 1107689848 (electronic bk.) 9781107032507 1107032504 (OCoLC)867631036 656921 (N$T) e------ aw----- ff----- DG124 .C65 2013eb OCC 036020 bisacsh REL 072000 bisacsh 292.07 23 HIS002000 bisacsh N$TA Cole, Spencer. Cicero and the rise of deification at Rome / Spencer Cole. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier "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"-- Provided by publisher. Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. The cultural work of metaphor; 2. Experiments and invented traditions; 3. Charting the posthumous path; 4. Revisions and Rome's new god; Conclusions. Description based on print version record. Apotheosis Rome. Emperor worship Rome. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. HISTORY / Ancient / General. bisacsh BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / Paganism & Neo-Paganism bisacsh RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology bisacsh Electronic books. Print version: Cole, Spencer. Cicero and the rise of deification at Rome 9781107032507 (DLC) 2013021439 (OCoLC)852681818 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=656921 Cover image http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/32507/cover/9781107032507.jpg EBSCOhost EBSC 656921 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 54068 54068