A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

as a hereditary duty, nor did it diminish their attachment to their place of birth. In fact, such an attachment was particularly ...

euergetes (benefactor) is Atticus and his son Herodes, who, although Roman sena- tors, performed the various higher offices of t ...

competitions, which constantly increase in number. Likewise, sophists travel more to other cities and give public demonstrations ...

on the part of his city to lodge its candidature with the Panhellenion. Andragathos and his brother Claudius Piso Tertullinus, m ...

The theoretically unlimited extent of the authority and the omnipotence that gov- ernors apparently enjoyed vis-à-vis the cities ...

they were a historic cultural center. Such speeches fit well into the cultural milieu of the period, the Second Sophistic. This ...

The most crucial and difficult cases, born of and nurtured by the spirit of rivalry between members of the local elites and betw ...

Nicaea and Nicomedia, which started under Tiberius, continued at least until the fourth centuryad. Elites as Bearers of Civic Am ...

Domitian. Likewise, Antonia Tryphaina, of Cyzicus, thanks to her connections with Gaius, helped Cyzicus in many ways, especially ...

embellishing his native city, Prusa (Oratio45.12–14). The project has been welcomed by the people of Prusa and sponsored by one ...

himself. A high priesthood was the highest possible recognition, in one form, of life- long services rendered to the city, to th ...

honorific decrees passed in their honor, “by family and wealth” (genei kai plouto), is extremely explicit. Of such personages, d ...

de liaison” between two worlds – in the domain of both cultural life and political realities. Benefactors attempted to perpetuat ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Living on Religion: Professionals and Personnel Marietta Horster The priests of the official pagan cults in ...

Cult Servants of “State Cults” Paid by the Roman State, the Cities, or the Sacrificing Magistrates or Priests Many of the attend ...

epulones, the pontifex maximusand the other pontifices, the rex sacrorum, and some of the sodalesserving the imperial cult. Reli ...

cows, and oxen) with a rope or line around its neck to the altar (fig. 12.1 above). Attendants and servants are shown pouring a ...

any active participation by apparitoresin processions or sacrifices. The praecones, the announcers, however, had some very impor ...

According to the evidence of the inscriptions in imperial times, not every city of the Roman empire had so many and such diverse ...

in 208bcand later even Caesar on the Ides of March 44bcdied because they were not careful enough to pay attention to negative si ...