| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 398 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Oxford classical monographs
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Oxford classical monographs.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-392) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rome -- Religion.
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Rome (Empire) |
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Religion. |
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Emperor worship -- Rome.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gradel, Ittai. Emperor worship and Roman religion. Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 2002 0198152752 (DLC) 2001058835 (OCoLC)48557636 |
| ISBN |
1423757467 (electronic book) |
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9781423757467 (electronic book) |
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9780198152750 (Cloth) |
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0198152752 (Cloth) |
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