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100 1 _aCole, Spencer.
245 1 0 _aCicero and the rise of deification at Rome /
_cSpencer Cole.
264 1 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
505 8 _aMachine 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aApotheosis
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650 0 _aEmperor worship
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600 1 0 _aCicero, Marcus Tullius.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Ancient / General.
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650 7 _aBODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / Paganism & Neo-Paganism
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650 7 _aRELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology
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655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aCole, Spencer.
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