International audienceCicero’s Philippics provide a useful case study of the interrelationship of different modes of ritualization: linguistic, religious, and political. In Cicero’s view mastery of ritualized protocols establishes political agency, and their violation by Antony marks his opposition to the entire project of republicanism. Cicero’s exercise of political agency at a moment of extreme duress makes clear his understanding of the republic as a ritualized entity. Analysis of the Philippics thus complicates the modern distinctions between religion, political action, and eloquent speech retroactively imposed upon the Roman material and allows us instead to interpret the Roman republic as a set of interlocking ritualized practices in...
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This thesis examines Marcus Tullius Cicero's rhetorical and political strategy in late Roman republi...
"This book tells a part of the back-story to major religious transformations emerging from the tumul...
The aim of this thesis is to define and explore the nature of pollution and purity in pre-Christian ...
Les Philippiques de Cicéron nous fournissent un utile terrain pour étudier la relation entre différe...
This thesis studies the religious system of the city of Rome and its immediate hinterland from the e...
Thinking about incidence of sacred in urbanism and in creation of the urban form – and therefore on ...
Public spectacles incorporating oratory played a central role in the social and political life of th...
The reputation of the statesman M. Tullius Cicero in the Roman imperial period (ca. 31 BC – 300 AD) ...
This paper analyzes public divination in late republican Rome. Divination is conceptualized as a for...
Whether the result of internal revolution or external factors, in the late sixth century BC Rome und...
The purpose of this study is to illuminate the nature of legislative reform and its intertwining rel...
Collective and private religion.. For a long time, Roman religion was supposed to be decadent and de...
The late fourth and early third centuries B.C. witnessed important changes in the internal political...
Religion in the Late Republic was fused to politics. This study considers the relationship between v...
The Rhetorical Manipulation of History in Cicero’s Philippics. Rhetorical manipulation of history is...
This thesis examines Marcus Tullius Cicero's rhetorical and political strategy in late Roman republi...
"This book tells a part of the back-story to major religious transformations emerging from the tumul...
The aim of this thesis is to define and explore the nature of pollution and purity in pre-Christian ...