A.
Heroes
Mythical
(Hercules); Historical (Alexander)
B.
Worship of Power
Impressive,
Beneficent, Savior
II.Hellenistic
Ruler Cult
A.
Power beyond the Polis
Antiochus
III and the Teans: worshipped with Dionysos
B.
Roman power and the Polis
Flamininus:victory
against Philip V; Greek freedom; cult
III. Deification
A.
Julius Caesar
-Related
to Venus
-Divine
honors: Head on coins / month of
July
-Murder
and deification:Divus
Iulius = Divine Julius
B.
Augustus
-Divi
Filius = Son of a God
-29
BC Pergamum and Nicomedia (Asia) offer temple to Roma and Augustus
-Manifest
power (Velleius 2.89)
C.
Apotheosis
/ Consecratio (Ceremony of Deification)
-Wax
image; procession to Campus Martius
-Funeral
pyre with eagles:Deification of
Faustina and Antoninus
IV. Imperial
Cult in East and West
A.
Emperor as Religious Center:dominate
Roman priesthoods / temples
B.
East
-Festivals:Gytheon
Decree (LM 6.1):competitions; procession;
sacrifice; local temple of Asclepius
-Rivalry:inter-urban
rivalry; neokoros (temple warden); temples or Smyrna, Pergamum,
Ephesus; rivalry w/in city
-Unions:koina
(provincial counsels)
-System
of Exchange:Asian counsel on Aug's
birthday; Honor for Benefaction
C.
West
-Central
initiative:Drusus' altar to "genius"
of Augustus in Lugdunum (12 BC)
-Tarracona
(AD 23): Temple to divine Augustus
-Local
cult and Imperial Cult:Mars Mullo
and the emperor (LM 6.2)
V. The Emperor
as God
A.
Fluctuation over time:Tiberius v.
Caligula
B.
Skepticism?: Seneca "Pumpkinafication of Claudius"
C.
Rituals and Power:all must worship
emperor
