Varro’s Tripartite Theology and Ciceronian Invective in 56 BC
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In spring of 56 BC Cicero delivered a speech before the senate in which he attempted to prove that a recent earthquake prodigy arose as a result of the actions of his political opponent, Publius Clodius. Cicero employs evidence that resembles Varro’s three different ways of treating the divine: the mythic, the civic, and the philosophical. This essay examines the intersections between Cicero’s tactics and the so-called ‘tripartite theology’ of Varro.
keywordsCicero, Publius Clodius Pulcher, Marcus Terentius Varro, De haruspicum responsis, Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum, Tripartite Theology, Invective, TragedyBiografia dell'autoreUniversity of Virginia. Email: corbeill@virginia.edu |
