Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Raaflaub, Kurt A

Titel

The Thought-World of Ancient Rome

Ist Teil von

• The Adventure of the Human Intellect, 2016, p.149-166

Ort / Verlag

United States: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Online Books - All Titles (includes Withdrawn titles)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Romans developed an elaborate code of law, were brilliant architects and engineers, created a systematic calendar, and produced some of the world's finest poetry, among many other intellectual accomplishments. For this chapter, the authors have taken their cue from Anchises and focused on the evolution and rationalization of the moral qualities that, in the Romans' own view, made their empire possible and were the basis of their political culture. The chapter explains a few key aspects of Romans' relations with their gods and balancing act. A concern with the divine pervaded Rome's institutions and culture even more thoroughly than their concern with military affairs. If they have located Rome's intellectual achievement principally in the domain of values, it is because it is on this that the Romans themselves, like Anchises, most prided themselves, and because this is where they found the principal inspiration for their intellectual life.