1: Dictator and Magister Equitum
2: Imperium and auspices
3: Dictator
4: Magister Equitum
5: Drowning the Chickens
6: Dictator interregni caussa
7: The road to perdition
8: The challenge to the auspices
Appendix: Consular abdication and interregnum
C. F. Konrad studied at the Universities of Oregon and North
Carolina. He has worked at the University of California, Santa
Barbara, University of Colorado, and the Center for Hellenic
Studies, Washington, D.C. He currently works as an Associate
Professor of Classics at Texas A&M University, and is the
editor of Augusto augurio: Rerum humanarum et divinarum
commentationes in honorem Jerzy Linderski (2004) and the author
of
Plutarch's Sertorius: A Historical Commentary (1994).
Konrad (classics, Texas A&M) presents readers with a very
interesting analysis of a period when some parts of Roman religion
were changing as the Romans ventured farther and farther into the
wider world, first on the peninsula and then farther afield over
the decades...This study of the auspices illuminates the evolution
of power amid a society in flux.
*Choice*
The volume offers important insights to various aspects of the
Roman auspices and therefore will enrich the studies on this key
theme of Roman religious practice as well as on politics in the
middle Roman republic... By closely examining several case studies
as important keys to the understanding of the importance of augural
practices to Roman politics the book under review fruitfully
connects the fields of politics and religion and thereby will find
his place within the series of publications on Roman religion as
well as on Roman government.
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
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