2004, ISBN: 9780199275489

[PU: Oxford : Clarendon Press], XVIII, 408 p., ill. Original softcover. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical T… More...

[PU: Oxford : Clarendon Press], XVIII, 408 p., ill. Original softcover. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed binding, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener Einband, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: Preface -- Preface to the Paperhack Edition -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Before the Caesars -- 3. Caesars Divine Honours -- 4. Beyond Rome: By Municipal Deification -- 5. The Augustan Settlement -- 6. The Augustan Heritage and Mad Emperors -- 7. The Emperors Genius in State Cult -- 8. In Every House? The Emperor in the Roman Household -- 9. Corporate Worship -- 10. Numen Augustum -- 11. A Parallel: C. Manlius, Caeretan Caesar -- 12. Heavenly Honours Decreed by the Senate: From Emperor to Divus -- Appemdox 1. Dedications from Italy to the Genius of Living Non-imperials -- Appendix 2. Dedications from Italy to the Genius Augusti up to AD 233 -- Appendix 3. Titles of Municipal Priests of Emperors in Italy from Inscriptional Sources. - While Roman religion worshipped a number of gods, one kind of worship in particular aroused the fury of early Christians and the wonder of scholars: the cult of Roman emperors alive or dead. Was the divinity of emperors a glue that held the Empire together? Were rulers such as Julius Caesar and Caligula simply mad to expect such worship of themselves? Or was it rather a phenomenon which has only been rendered incomprehensible by modern and monotheistic ideas of what religion isor should beall about? This book presents the first study of emperor worship among the Romans themselves, both in Rome and in its heartland Italy. It argues that emperor worship was indeed perfectly in keeping with Roman religious tradition, which has been generally misunderstood by a posterity imbued in radically different notions of the relationship between man and the divine. - Ittai Gradel is Carlsberg Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Copenhagen. ISBN 9780199275489, DE, [SC: 4.50], gebraucht sehr gut, gewerbliches Angebot, [GW: 594g], Banküberweisung, Offene Rechnung, PayPal, Internationaler Versand<

2005, ISBN: 0199275483

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