Religion in Cicero
Contributors: Coleman, Kathleen M.; Jones, Christopher P.; Striker, Gisela
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Description: This study describes the religious content of the Ciceronian corpus and reappraises Cicero's religious stance. Chapter 1 develops a working definition of religion in terms of interested supernatural agents, briefly situating it within the historiography of religion. Support for this definition from scholars in a range of academic disciplines is demonstrated. It is then engaged in Chapter 2 as a tool with which to locate and classify religious material in the Ciceronian corpus, approaching the texts genre by genre and indicating certain difficulties encountered when seeking to divide the religious from the non-religious.
Notes: Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2012