{"product_id":"roman-republican-augury-freedom-and-control-9780198834434","title":"Roman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control","description":"\u003cem\u003eRoman Republican Augury: Freedom and Control\u003c\/em\u003e proposes a new way of understanding augury, a form of Roman state divination designed to consult the god Jupiter. Previous scholarly studies of augury have tended to focus either upon its legal-constitutional aspects (especially its place in\u003cbr\u003edefining, structuring, and circumscribing the precise constitutional powers of magistrates), or upon its role in maintaining and perpetuating Roman social and political structures (primarily as a tool of the elite). This volume makes a new and original contribution to the study of Roman religion, \u003cbr\u003etheology, politics, and cultural history by challenging the prevailing view that official divination was organized to produce only the results its users wanted, and focusing instead upon what it can tell us about how the Romans understood their relationship with their gods. Rather than supposing\u003cbr\u003ethat augury, like other forms of Roman public divination, told Romans what they wanted to hear, it argues that augury in both theory and practice left space for perceived expressions of divine will which contradicted human wishes, and that its rules and precepts did not allow human beings simply to\u003cbr\u003ecreate or ignore signs at will. Analysis of the historical evidence for Romans receiving, and heeding, signs which would seem to have conflicted with their own desires allows the Jupiter whom they approached in augury to emerge as not simply a source of power to be tapped and channelled to human\u003cbr\u003eends, but as a person with his own interests and desires, which did not always overlap with those of his human enquirers. When human and divine will clashed, it was the will of Jupiter, not that of the man consulting him, which was supposed to prevail. In theory as in practice, it was the Romans, \u003cbr\u003enot their supreme god, who were 'bound' by the auguries and auspices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198834434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLindsay G. Driediger-Murphy, \u003cem\u003eAssistant Professor in Latin and Roman Social\/Religious History, Department of Classics and Religion, University of Calgary, Canada\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLindsay G. Driediger-Murphy is an Assistant Professor in Latin and Roman Social\/Religious History at the University of Calgary, Canada. After completing a DPhil in Ancient History at the University of Oxford in 2011 she became a Stipendiary College Lecturer at Oriel and Jesus Colleges, Oxford, \u003cbr\u003ebefore moving back to Canada to take up her current post. Her research and teaching focus on the religious history of the ancient world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932116762739,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9db1b1b0-83d5-484a-ae07-bdd75bea95d9.jpg?v=1647790452","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/roman-republican-augury-freedom-and-control-9780198834434","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}