Religion II - origins of ruler worship Flashcards
Plutarch, Titus Flaminius
dedicated by the people to Titus and Apollo.
Aulus Gellius on Scipio Africanus
Consulting Jupiter on the matters of State.
Plutarch, Gaius Gracchus
many sacrificed and fell down a their statues everyday, as though there were the shrines of the gods.
Livy, The Deification of Romulus
Romulus departed on high/Romulus was torn apart by the Senate. (different narratives)
Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar (funeral of Julia)
the family of which ours is a branch, to Venus.
Cicero, Philippics
None of it has my approval (i.e. the sacred couch, the gable and the special priests)
Cassius Dio (Honours for Caesar in his lifetime)
always wearing the triumphal dress. celebrate his birthday by public sacrifice.
Cassius Dio & Suetonius
The month in which he was born was renamed July. At third priestly college of the Luperci.
Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar
Golden throne in his house and in the Senate.
Honours to be bestowed upon him which were too great for a mortal man.
Pliny the Elder (deification)
Publicly Augustus claims this is divine Julius, privately he takes the comet as a sign for himself.
COIN - Caesar and divinity before his death.
Venus (Obv), Aeneas & Anchises with the Palladium (Rev).
Cassius Dio (triumvirs)
They compelled everybody to celebrate his birthday by wearing laurel.
Built the Curia Julia.
Beard - dimension
Political life for a Roman aristocrat held both social and religious dimensions.
Beard (II) - undiff
Roman religion lies undifferentiated from the political sphere - our binaries are anachronistic.
Beard (III) - decline of the religious
contemporary augustan
Its misleading and allows for a parade of piety in the period of Augustus. (convenient foil of the Republic)
