ASCLEPIADES Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 (edited) Salve! QUOTE(Ursus @ Feb 24 2007, 07:32 AM Caesar's Edited August 20, 2007 by ASCLEPIADES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryaxis Hecatee Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 Well one has to be careful : the roman rulers of Republican time may indeed have been the object of a cult but only outside of Rome, in the Hellenic area. Cult inside of Rome did not arrive until Augustus when the Princeps orchestrated a cult for his father Caesar which he made central to the whole empire. Before then it was left to each city to decide if they wanted to organize a cult to someone, and they did it mainly to stand into the good graces of those leaders and their descendant. Caesar, while indeed using his divine descent in his propaganda, did not say he was a god himself for other could have made the claim base on similar ancestry... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASCLEPIADES Posted August 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 Well one has to be careful : the roman rulers of Republican time may indeed have been the object of a cult but only outside of Rome, in the Hellenic area. Cult inside of Rome did not arrive until Augustus when the Princeps orchestrated a cult for his father Caesar which he made central to the whole empire. Before then it was left to each city to decide if they wanted to organize a cult to someone, and they did it mainly to stand into the good graces of those leaders and their descendant. Caesar, while indeed using his divine descent in his propaganda, did not say he was a god himself for other could have made the claim base on similar ancestry... I totally agree. For example, TQ Flaminius was only worshipped by the citizens of one polis, Chalcis of Euboea... (but for a very long time!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryaxis Hecatee Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 You give a very good example Asclepiades. The controversy that arose in Rome around the statue of Flaminius that the Greeks offered him ( the famous bronze statue we can still see at the Palazzo Massimo in Rome ) because he was represented in the heroic nude as a god is a famous case showing how the Romans saw their generals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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