Prophets and Emperors : : Human and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius / / David Potter.

To the practical modern mind, the idea of divine prophecy is more ludicrous than sublime. Yet to our cultural forebears in ancient Greece and Rome, prophecy was anything but marginal; it was in fact the basic medium for recalling significant past events and expressing hopes for the future, and it of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
Series:Revealing Antiquity , 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (281 p.) :; 2 maps, 13 halftones
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