Divinization of Caesar and Augustus

Divinization of Caesar and Augustus

Precedents, Consequences, Implications

Koortbojian, Michael (Princeton University, New Jersey)

Cambridge University Press

10/2013

360

Dura

Inglês

9780521192156

15 a 20 dias

This book examines the newly institutionalized divinization of Caesar and Augustus at the advent of the Roman empire.
1. Making men gods; 2. The question of Caesar's divinity and the problem of his cult statue; 3. Augural images: old traditions and new institutions; 4. Romulus, Quirinus, genius, divus; 5. Caesar's portrait and the Simulacrum Divi Iulii; 6. Auspicious, propitious, victorious; 7. Representation in an era of divinization; 8. Ad urbem et ex urbe: the imagery of the divus and its fate; 9. Coda: reverberations in the east.
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