A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

a few prodigies were expiated in the places where they had happened; for instance, the hermaphrodite found at Ferentinum in 133b ...

senate consulted the augurs and declared that he was vitio creatum, that is, that there was a defect in the election. The senate ...

The basic form of magisterial auspice was the tripudium: when chickens, brought especially for that purpose, ate their food in s ...

signs said to foretell the future. Many omens are favorable signs; negative omens were never expiated by the res publica. While ...

plans of rebuilding a private house on sacred ground – for Clodius clearly a sacri- lege – Cicero delivered a speech to prove th ...

The burning down of the temple of Iuventas (=Youth) could be interpreted as foretelling a catastrophe in the system of reproduct ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Emperors: Caring for the Empire and Their Successors Peter Herz The Mental Situation Like most people in anti ...

Emperors 305 which described the official power of all higher Roman magistrates (Linderski 1995). Therefore every representative ...

person who would free these nations from the oppression and injustice of the Roman domination, and bring back older and therefor ...

himself in a long-established tradition going back to the time of Alexander the Great. According to the so-called Alexanderroman ...

people twice renamed all 12 months to honor Augustus and his family, have unfor- tunately been lost (Samuel 1972). Under those c ...

The identification of the emperor with Helios, the Sun-god, has been total. Caligula is the “new sun,” who is physically complet ...

In addition, these honors aimed also at the position of the emperor as a mediator between the gods and the humans, and hopefully ...

The Propagation of the Imperial Theology One of the great problems for those dealing with the imperial cult is the question of h ...

magistrate (sella curulis) with the image of Nero had been placed. After victims had been sacrificed king Tiridates approached t ...

plebs Sextus Pacuvius or Apudius (Dio 53.20.2– 4) pledged his life for Augustus’ (“according to the habit of the Iberians”). Ina ...

(Providentia Augusta) in Rome was founded in memory of such a decision. But we can see how the original concept of providentia A ...

only the end of his earthly existence, and the transition to a new existence and his reception by the gods in heaven. This relig ...

the Christian god as the supreme source of their power, many features of the old ruler cult were easily adapted to the new reali ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Urban Elites in the Roman East: Enhancing Regional Positions and Social Superiority Athanasios Rizakis From ...