The function of a divinely inspired text in Cicero’s De haruspicum responsis

Auteur: Corbeill, Anthony
Titre: The function of a divinely inspired text in Cicero’s De haruspicum responsis
Revue/Collection: in : D. H. Berry and A. Erskine, Ed., Form and Function in Roman Oratory
Lieu èdition: Cambridge
Éditeur: Cambridge UP
Annèe edition: 2010
Pages: 139-154
Mots-clès: 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.
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Sigle auteur: Corbeill 2010