Ushering in a new Republic : theologies of arrival at Rome in the first century BCE /

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Main Author: Luke, Trevor S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Performance, political theology, and arrival
  • The Sullan republic
  • The theology of departure and arrival in Sulla's memoir
  • Pompey's Recognitio equitum
  • Cicero's epic and civic theologies of departure and return
  • The Civil War
  • Julius Caesar as Rex : the Ovatio of January 44
  • Octavian's return in 36 : achieving his father's honors
  • The Res Gestae and the advent of the Princeps
  • The Res Gestae as divine relic
  • Theologies of arrival in the Res Gestae
  • Augustus as the new Numa
  • Conclusion: Apotheosis and succession.