Harvard University Press has partnered with De Gruyter to make available for sale worldwide virtually all in-copyright HUP books that had become unavailable since their original publication. The 2,800 titles in the “e-ditions” program can be purchased individually as PDF eBooks or as hardcover reprint (“print-on-demand”) editions via the “Available from De Gruyter” link above. They are also available to institutions in ten separate subject-area packages that reflect the entire spectrum of the Press’s catalog. More about the E-ditions Program »
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Prophecy and Cult
- Active and Passive Religious Experience
- Inductive and Subjective Prognostication
- Oracles and Prophets: The Agents of Subjective Divination
- The Nature of Prophetic Inspiration
- 2. Scholars, Poets, and Sibyls
- Scholarship
- Prophecy in Literature
- Tradition and Transformation: The Case of the Sibylline Oracles
- Readers and Writers of Prophetic Texts in the Roman Empire
- 3. Prophecy and the Informed Public
- Oracular Responses to History
- The Emperor’s Message
- Analyzing the Emperors’ Messages
- Imperial History in the Sibylline Oracles
- 4. Prophecy and Personal Power in the Roman Empire
- The Republican Background
- Court Politics
- Prophecy and Political Unrest
- 5. Eastern Wisdom in Roman Prophetic Books
- East and West in Fact and Fiction
- Hermes Trismegistus and Julianus the Chaldean
- The Closing of the Roman Mind
- Epilogue: Power, Culture, and Communication
- Notes
- Index
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
I Tatti Renaissance Library
Loeb Classical Library
Murty Classical Library of India