Prophets and Emperors: Human and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius by David Stone Potter

Prophets and Emperors: Human and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius

David Stone Potter

293 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

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To the practical modern mind, the idea of divine prophecy is more ludicrous than sublime. Yet to our cultural forebears in ancient Greece and Rome, prophecy was anything but marginal; it was in fact the basic medium for recalling significant past ...

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