Author: Beltrão da Rosa, Claudia & Santangelo, Federico (eds)
Title: Cicero and Roman Religion. Eight Studies
Place edition: Stuttgart
Editor: Franz Steiner Verlag
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 154
Review:
Author initials: Beltrão da Rosa & Santangelo 2020
Title: Cicero and Roman Religion. Eight Studies
Place edition: Stuttgart
Editor: Franz Steiner Verlag
Year edition: 2020
Pages: 154
Review:
Antonio Gonzales, Dialogue d’histoire ancienne, 236-237, 2024 (link) ; Alexander Nice, Latomus 3 (2021) ; Celia Schultz, BMCR 2020.11.04 (link) ; Nicoletta Bruno, Arctos, Vol. 56 (2022).
Description: This book gathers eight papers devoted to specific aspects of Cicero's engagement with Roman religion, and seeks to make a wider contribution to the understanding of Cicero's work as historical evidence. By engaging with religion as a fundamental factor of social cohesion and political stability, both in his theoretical works and his speeches, Cicero shaped a wide-ranging and ambitious discourse around themes and images that were firmly located in first-century BCE Rome. His contribution also proved very influential in the centuries to come. The volume focuses on the relationship between law, religion, and religious authority in Cicero; the interplay between divine images, ritual contexts, and the conceptualization of the divine; Cicero's construction of a Greek deity for a Roman audience; the role of religious elements in the shaping of a Roman political identity; the tension between 'natural law' and Roman pietas; the problem of divine and human foresight; the relationship between theoretical views of the gods and late Republican public cult; and the reception, use, and readaptation of Ciceronian theology in the English Enlightenment [Editor] Cet ouvrage rassemble huit articles consacrés à des aspects spécifiques de l’engagement de Cicéron dans la religion romaine, et cherche à apporter une contribution plus large à la compréhension de l’œuvre de Cicéron en tant que preuve historique. En abordant la religion comme un facteur fondamental de cohésion sociale et de stabilité politique, tant dans ses ouvrages théoriques que dans ses discours, Cicéron a façonné un discours ambitieux et de grande envergure autour de thèmes et d’images fermement ancrés dans la Rome du premier siècle avant notre ère. Le volume se concentre sur la relation entre la loi, la religion et l’autorité religieuse chez Cicéron ; l’interaction entre les images divines, les contextes rituels et la conceptualisation du divin ; la construction par Cicéron d’une divinité grecque pour un public romain ; le rôle des éléments religieux dans la formation d’une identité politique romaine ; la tension entre le « droit naturel » et la pietas romaine ; le problème de la prévoyance divine et humaine ; la relation entre les conceptions théoriques des dieux et le culte public de la fin de la République ; et la réception, l’utilisation et la réadaptation de la théologie cicéronienne [Antonio Gonzalez, BMCR 2020.11.04] Claudia Beltrão da Roma and Federico Santangelo, Introduction (p. 9-22) Valentina Arena, Cicero, the Augures, and the Commonwealth in De Legibus (p. 23-44) Patricia Horvat and Alexandre Carneiro C. Lima, The Ontophanies of Diana in Segesta (Cicero, Verrines 2.4.72-82) (p. 45-58) María Emilia Cairo, A Reading of Cicero’s De Haruspicum Responso. Some Reflections on Roman Identity (p. 73-86) Maria Eichler, Epicurean pietas and Political Action in Lucretius and Cicero (p. 87-104) Federico Santangelo, Cicero on Divine and Human Foresight (p. 105-116) Greg Woolf, Foreign Gods in the Age of Cicero (p. 117-134) Katherine A. East, Editing Ciceronian Religion in the Enlightenment (p. 135-146)Author initials: Beltrão da Rosa & Santangelo 2020
