Spencer Cole. Cicero and the Rise of Deification at Rome. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 208 pgs. ₤60 (Hardback). ISBN 978-1-107-03250-7. Spencer Cole’s Cicero and the Rise of Deification at Rome, marks a substantive contribution to the revolution that has taken place among Classicists and scholars of Greco-Roman religion. Following in the footsteps of Simon Price, among others, Cole seeks to free Roman religion from the modern caricature that it was only concerned with “political” pragmatism....