Autore: Arena, Valentina
Titolo: Cicero, the Augures, and the Commonwealth in De Legibus
Rivista/Miscellanea: in : Claudia Beltrão da Rosa, Federico Santangelo, Cicero and Roman religion: eight studies. Potsdamer Alterumswissenschaftliche Beitrage, Band 72. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020, 154 p.
Editore: Franz Steiner Verlag
Anno edizione: 2020
Pagine: 23-44
Parole chiave: Politique - Politica - Politics, Religion - Religione - Religion
Descrizione: Valentina Arena tackles the received wisdom that Cicero’s attention to the augurs in the second and third books of Leg. is a result of his pride in his membership in the college. Arena instead makes a persuasive case that Cicero is taking part in a political debate that was live in the early 50s: the use and abuse of auspicia. He is responding to a law put forward by Clodius. Elsewhere, Cicero claimed that the lex Clodia de obnuntiatione aimed to destroy the auspicia. It is more likely, however, that it required only that the announcement of auspicia by magistrates be done in person—not a particularly revolutionary nor subversive move. Recognizing this as part of the backdrop to the writing of Leg. helps to make sense of Cicero’s particular focus on the augurs’ role in popular assemblies, both legislative and electoral. When Cicero asserts that augural auctoritas, derived from Jupiter, is supreme over the merely terrestrial auctoritas of magistrates, he argues against Clodius and for the primacy of the augurs’ ius obnuntiandi over the ius obnuntiandi and ius auspicandi of the magistrates. [Celia Schultz, BMCR 2020.11.04]
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Sigla autore: Arena 2020
Titolo: Cicero, the Augures, and the Commonwealth in De Legibus
Rivista/Miscellanea: in : Claudia Beltrão da Rosa, Federico Santangelo, Cicero and Roman religion: eight studies. Potsdamer Alterumswissenschaftliche Beitrage, Band 72. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020, 154 p.
Editore: Franz Steiner Verlag
Anno edizione: 2020
Pagine: 23-44
Parole chiave: Politique - Politica - Politics, Religion - Religione - Religion
Descrizione: Valentina Arena tackles the received wisdom that Cicero’s attention to the augurs in the second and third books of Leg. is a result of his pride in his membership in the college. Arena instead makes a persuasive case that Cicero is taking part in a political debate that was live in the early 50s: the use and abuse of auspicia. He is responding to a law put forward by Clodius. Elsewhere, Cicero claimed that the lex Clodia de obnuntiatione aimed to destroy the auspicia. It is more likely, however, that it required only that the announcement of auspicia by magistrates be done in person—not a particularly revolutionary nor subversive move. Recognizing this as part of the backdrop to the writing of Leg. helps to make sense of Cicero’s particular focus on the augurs’ role in popular assemblies, both legislative and electoral. When Cicero asserts that augural auctoritas, derived from Jupiter, is supreme over the merely terrestrial auctoritas of magistrates, he argues against Clodius and for the primacy of the augurs’ ius obnuntiandi over the ius obnuntiandi and ius auspicandi of the magistrates. [Celia Schultz, BMCR 2020.11.04]
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Sigla autore: Arena 2020
