Prophets and emperors : human and divine authority from Augustus to Theodosius /
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| Author / Creator: | Potter, D. S. (David Stone), 1957- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994. |
| Description: | viii, 281 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Revealing antiquity. 7 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1722198 |
Table of Contents:
- Prophecy and Cult
- Active and Passive Religios Experience
- Inductive and Subjective Prognostication
- Oracles and Prophets: The Age of Subjective Divination
- The Nature of Prophetic Inspiration
- Scholars, Poets, and Sibyls
- Scholarship
- Prophecy in Literature
- Tradition and Transformation: The Case of the Sibylline Oracles
- Readers and Writers of Prophetic Texts in the Roman Empire
- Prophecy and the Informed Public
- Oracular Responses to History
- The Emperor's Message
- Analyzing the Emperors' Messages
- Imperial History in the Sibylline Oracles
- Prophecy and Personal Power in the Roman Empire
- The Republican Background
- Court Politics
- Prophecy and Political Unrest
- Eastern Wisdom in Roman Prophetic Books
- East and West in Fact and Fiction
- Hermes Trismegistus and Julianus the Chaldean
- The Closing of the Roman Mind
- Epilogue: Power, Culture, and Communication
- Notes
- Index