An innovative case study in religious change in Rome that examines how Cicero explores and experiments with concepts of deification.
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Spencer Cole is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. His publications include articles on Roman religion in both the republican and imperial periods, Augustan poetry, and Greek drama. He is also a contributor to The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions (2015).
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