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020			_a9781139506373 (ebook)
020			_z9781107032507 (hardback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aDG124 _b.C65 2013
082	0	0	_a292.07 _223
100	1		_aCole, Spencer, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aCicero and the Rise of Deification at Rome / _cSpencer Cole.
246	3		_aCicero & the Rise of Deification at Rome
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (216 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThis 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.
650		0	_aCicero, Marcus Tullius
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107032507
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139506373
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37279 _d37279