Faced with the worship of the ruler in the Greek east, Augustus could do little more that regulate a practice that had already existed over three centuries. His problem in Rome, in contrast, was to adapt the cult of the ruler required by contemporary practice to the usage of the Republic in such as way as to distance himself from Caesar, whose indiscretion had produced his untimely death. The system he hit upon was to emphasize Republican forms, key abstractions, and the worship of state gods closely connected with his rule: in other words to establish the cult of the emperor by other then direct means. In the Latin west in contrast he was free to shape the ruler cult as he chose. His principal contribution here was to establish regional ce...
This paper is concerned with a complete set of rituals and certain connected ideas, namely the Roman...
Frente a las tesis que vinculaban los inicios del culto imperial en Hispania a la influencia de trad...
É nosso objetivo neste trabalho demonstrar como as efígies de Augusto e os signa imperii augustanos,...
Faced with the worship of the ruler in the Greek east, Augustus could do little more that regulate a...
Divus Augustus Pater. The cult of divine Augustus under the rule of the Julio-Claudian dynasty ...
Augustus’ approach to cults of foreign origins has recently undergone much reconsideration. Until th...
En este artículo se considera un conjunto heterogéneo de inscripciones hispanas que permite document...
The imperial cult was a local phenomenon. Religious colleges, like other social groups, included var...
El autor propone que, cuando el año 14 d.C. el Senado de Roma decretaba la apotheosis en honor de Au...
The Imperial Cult honored Roman emperors during lifetime and after death, both in Rome and in the pr...
In the Greek world Roman emperors were often linked with traditional gods. Verbal and iconographical...
This article examines what the historians have called the “imperial cult” to describe a wide variety...
In 27 B.C., Octavian became Augustus. The chaos of the civil wars had ended and an emperor was at la...
Within the different areas of divination in ancient Rome, the phenomenon of prodigy (miracle) plays ...
In the Greek world Roman emperors were often linked with traditional gods. Verbal and iconographical...
This paper is concerned with a complete set of rituals and certain connected ideas, namely the Roman...
Frente a las tesis que vinculaban los inicios del culto imperial en Hispania a la influencia de trad...
É nosso objetivo neste trabalho demonstrar como as efígies de Augusto e os signa imperii augustanos,...
Faced with the worship of the ruler in the Greek east, Augustus could do little more that regulate a...
Divus Augustus Pater. The cult of divine Augustus under the rule of the Julio-Claudian dynasty ...
Augustus’ approach to cults of foreign origins has recently undergone much reconsideration. Until th...
En este artículo se considera un conjunto heterogéneo de inscripciones hispanas que permite document...
The imperial cult was a local phenomenon. Religious colleges, like other social groups, included var...
El autor propone que, cuando el año 14 d.C. el Senado de Roma decretaba la apotheosis en honor de Au...
The Imperial Cult honored Roman emperors during lifetime and after death, both in Rome and in the pr...
In the Greek world Roman emperors were often linked with traditional gods. Verbal and iconographical...
This article examines what the historians have called the “imperial cult” to describe a wide variety...
In 27 B.C., Octavian became Augustus. The chaos of the civil wars had ended and an emperor was at la...
Within the different areas of divination in ancient Rome, the phenomenon of prodigy (miracle) plays ...
In the Greek world Roman emperors were often linked with traditional gods. Verbal and iconographical...
This paper is concerned with a complete set of rituals and certain connected ideas, namely the Roman...
Frente a las tesis que vinculaban los inicios del culto imperial en Hispania a la influencia de trad...
É nosso objetivo neste trabalho demonstrar como as efígies de Augusto e os signa imperii augustanos,...