Cicero 'Haruspex' : : Political Prognostication and the Viscera of a Deceased Body Politic / / Maridien Schneider.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Schneider, Maridien ,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

This monograph explores Marcus Tullius Cicero's awareness and interpretation of contemporary political events as reflected in his private correspondence during the last years of both the Roman republic and his own life. Cicero's correspondence gives a detailed view of current political events in Rome and constitutes, together with Caesar's writings, our major contemporary evidence for the circumstances of the civil war of 49 BC. The theoretical input of Cicero's predecessors, their perceptions of constitutional development (in particular of Roman politics) as well as Cicero's perception of their political theories are scrutinized to determine the extent of Cicero's awareness of a larger pattern of political events.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Prospectus -- Preface -- I. Origines -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of scholarship -- 3. Historical Overview -- 4. The evidence -- 5. Philosophy and politics -- 6. The Roman concept of decline -- 7. Theory and practice vs practice and theory -- II. Mediis In Rebus -- 8. Cicero’s period of governorship in Cilicia -- 9. Close encounters -- 10. And so the end draws near -- III. Exitus -- 11. ‘Non multo, inquam, secus possum vaticinari’ -- 12. Conspectus -- 13. Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index Rerum -- Index Locorum