Author: Corbeill, Anthony
Title: The function of a divinely inspired text in Cicero’s De haruspicum responsis
Review/Collection: in : D. H. Berry and A. Erskine, Ed., Form and Function in Roman Oratory
Place edition: Cambridge
Editor: Cambridge UP
Year edition: 2010
Pages: 139-154
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Religion - Religione - Religion
Description: Cicero's De haruspicum responsis (On the responses of the soothsayers') is not the most familiar of texts, even to the Ciceronian. I shall begin, therefore, with a brief summary of the context of the speech, and then turn tohow the form of the speech as a literary critical exercise is dictated by the factthat a written text functions as the speech's principal piece of evidence. Cicero teaches his audience how a text based on ancient Etruscan loreequates, rather counterintuitively, the needs of their own contemporaryRome with the will of the gods. Cicero's treatment of the responses of the haruspices hinges upon asserting a fixed relationship between written religious texts and the world of nature external to those texts.
Works:
Link: https://www.academia.edu/36022380/_The_function_of_a_divinely_inspired_text_in_Cicero_s_De_haruspicum_responsis_Form_and_Function_in_Roman_Oratory_Ed_D_H_Berry_and_A_Erskine_Cambridge_Cambridge_UP_2010_139_154
Author initials: Corbeill 2010
Title: The function of a divinely inspired text in Cicero’s De haruspicum responsis
Review/Collection: in : D. H. Berry and A. Erskine, Ed., Form and Function in Roman Oratory
Place edition: Cambridge
Editor: Cambridge UP
Year edition: 2010
Pages: 139-154
Keywords: Éloquence - Eloquenza - Eloquence, Religion - Religione - Religion
Description: Cicero's De haruspicum responsis (On the responses of the soothsayers') is not the most familiar of texts, even to the Ciceronian. I shall begin, therefore, with a brief summary of the context of the speech, and then turn tohow the form of the speech as a literary critical exercise is dictated by the factthat a written text functions as the speech's principal piece of evidence. Cicero teaches his audience how a text based on ancient Etruscan loreequates, rather counterintuitively, the needs of their own contemporaryRome with the will of the gods. Cicero's treatment of the responses of the haruspices hinges upon asserting a fixed relationship between written religious texts and the world of nature external to those texts.
Works:
Link: https://www.academia.edu/36022380/_The_function_of_a_divinely_inspired_text_in_Cicero_s_De_haruspicum_responsis_Form_and_Function_in_Roman_Oratory_Ed_D_H_Berry_and_A_Erskine_Cambridge_Cambridge_UP_2010_139_154
Author initials: Corbeill 2010
