| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 398 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford classical monographs |
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Oxford classical monographs
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| Contents |
Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1: INTRODUCTION -- Religion -- Public Rites, Private Rites -- Sacrifice -- The Arval Brothers and the State Cult -- The Meaning of Sacrifice -- Men and Gods -- 2: BEFORE THE CAESARS -- Republican Rome -- Masters and Slaves, Patrons and Clients -- 'My Earthly Jupiter!' -- Appointing the Gods -- 3: CAESAR'S DIVINE HONOURS -- Divus Caesar? -- Divus Julius -- 4: BEYOND ROME: 'BY MUNICIPAL DEIFICATION' -- The Emperor's Temples -- Priests -- Ritual -- Conclusion -- A Note: The Forum of Pompeii -- 5: THE AUGUSTAN SETTLEMENT -- The Compital Cults and Their Impact -- The State Cult -- A Failed Scheme? -- 6: THE AUGUSTAN HERITAGE AND MAD EMPERORS -- Dressing Up -- Gaius the God? -- Later 'Mad' Emperors -- 7: THE EMPEROR'S GENIUS IN STATE CULT -- The 'Frieze of the Vicomagistri' -- The Genius Augusti in State Cult -- Conclusion -- 8: 'IN EVERY HOUSE'? THE EMPEROR IN THE ROMAN HOUSEHOLD -- The Libation to the Emperor -- 9: CORPORATE WORSHIP -- Cultores Privatorum -- Cultores of the Emperor -- Other Corporate Worship -- Private Money, Public Favours -- Conclusion on Private Emperor Worship -- 10: NUMEN AUGUSTUM -- Numen Augustum or Augusti -- 11: A PARALLEL: C. MANLIUS, CAERETAN 'CAESAR' -- 12: 'HEAVENLY HONOURS DECREED BY THE SENATE': FROM EMPEROR TO DIVUS -- Divus: The Term and the Custom -- Divus Augustus: Background -- The Augustan Precedent -- 'He Wanted to be Worshipped . . .' -- Later Funerals -- Deification, Damnation, and Devaluation -- Canonization or Creation? -- The Eagle -- The Witness -- The Creation of a State God -- The Senate's Decree -- The Imagery of Apotheosis -- Absolute and Relative Divinity -- Seneca's Apocolocyntosis -- The Living and the Dead: Divi and Death -- 'Who Will Worship Such a God? Who Will Believe in Him?' -- Divus Augustus Again -- Divi in the Roman State Cult -- Pressures on the Old Order -- Collapse -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX I: DEDICATIONS FROM ITALY TO THE GENIUS OF LIVING NON-IMPERIALS -- APPENDIX 2: DEDICATIONS FROM ITALY TO THE GENIUS AUGUSTI UP TO AD 235 -- APPENDIX 3: TITLES OF MUNICIPAL PRIESTS OF EMPERORS IN ITALY FROM INSCRIPTIONAL SOURCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Summary |
"This book presents the first study of emperor worship among the Romans themselves, both in Rome and in its heartland Italy. It argues that emperor worship was indeed perfectly in keeping with Roman religious tradition, which has been generally misunderstood by a posterity imbued in radically different notions of the relationship between man and the divine."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-392) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Emperor worship -- Rome.
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RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
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Emperor worship
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Religion
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96009771
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| Subject |
Rome (Empire)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2001058835 |
| ISBN |
1423757467 |
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9781423757467 |
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9780198152750 |
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0198152752 |
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6610444803 |
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9786610444809 |
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