The Roman imperial cult (Latin: cultus imperatorius) identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority (auctoritas)...
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An imperial cult is a form of state religion in which an emperor or a dynasty of emperors (or rulers of another title) are worshipped as demigods, deities...
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state divinity (divus) by vote of the Senate. The Roman imperial cult, influenced by Hellenistic ruler cult, became one of the major ways Rome advertised...
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Mystery religions, mystery cults, sacred mysteries or simply mysteries, were religious schools of the Greco-Roman world for which participation was reserved...
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Roman Egypt was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641. The province encompassed most of modern-day Egypt except for the Sinai...
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Religion in ancient Rome (redirect from Roman Paganism)
to Imperial priesthood gave them Roman citizenship. In an empire of great religious and cultural diversity, the Imperial cult offered a common Roman identity...
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Hellenistic religion (redirect from Hellenistic ruler cult)
the Roman empire, and Diodorus Siculus wrote that the religion was known throughout almost the whole inhabited world. Almost as famous was the cult of...
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tax were exempt from the obligation of making sacrifices to the Roman imperial cult). In 313, Constantine and Licinius issued the Edict of Milan giving...
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worshipful image Imperial cult, a form of state religion in which a ruler is worshipped as a demigod or deity Roman imperial cult, identified emperors...
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festivals. Imperial cult continued to exist throughout Roman occupation of Cyprus, and a number of unique cults emerged from this transition to the Roman period...
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influenced by Hellenistic religion (notably neoplatonism) as well as the Roman imperial cult. Western Christianity is largely based on the Catholic Church's Latin...
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Augustus (title) (category Imperial titles)
virtues and the divine will and may be considered a feature of the Roman imperial cult. In Rome's Greek-speaking provinces, "Augustus" was translated as...
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Roma (personification) (category Roman goddesses)
nature of the empire. Roma's official cult served to advance the propagandist message of Imperial Rome. In Roman art and coinage, she is usually depicted...
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The gospel (section In Greek and Roman religion)
is a theological concept in several religions. In the historical Roman imperial cult and today in Christianity, the gospel is a message about salvation...
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Venus (mythology) (redirect from Venus roman goddess)
revered in Roman religion under numerous cult titles. The Romans adapted the myths and iconography of her Greek counterpart Aphrodite for Roman art and Latin...
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and the Middle Ages, such as the Greco-Roman religions of the Roman Empire, including the Roman imperial cult, the various mystery religions, religions...
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other cult matched the imperial cult in terms of dispersion and commonality. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roman Asia. List of Roman governors...
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Genius loci (category Ancient Roman religion)
snake. Many Roman altars found throughout the Western Roman Empire were dedicated to a particular genius loci. The Roman imperial cults of the Emperor...
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Romans themselves. For the cult pertaining to deified Roman emperors (divi), see Imperial cult. Certain honorifics and titles could be shared by different...
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to the establishment of the province. It endured in the Imperial period. The Roman Imperial cult was introduced under Augustus, with numismatic and epigraphic...
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Isis (redirect from Greco-Roman cult of Isis)
more strongly represented in the Isis cult than in most Greco-Roman cults, and in imperial times, they could serve as priestesses in many of the same positions...
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Rigonemetis ("Mars, King of the Sacred Grove") appears in the context of Roman Imperial cult in a dedication discovered at Nettleham (Lincolnshire) in 1961. He...
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Mithraism (redirect from Cult of Mithras)
Mithraism, also known as the Mithraic mysteries or the Cult of Mithras, was a Roman mystery religion centered on the god Mithras. Although inspired by...
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Christianity, the majority of his subjects remained pagans. The Roman Imperial cult of the divinity of the emperor, expressed through the traditional...
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Classical antiquity (redirect from History of the Greco-Roman World)
the Roman imperial cult with the Theodosian decrees of 393. Successive invasions of Germanic tribes finalized the weakening of the Western Roman Empire...
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Hadrian (redirect from Roman emperor Hadrian)
deceased youth as a cult figure found little opposition. Though not a subject of the state-sponsored, official Roman imperial cult, Antinous offered a...
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arrival of the first German Protestant missionaries in 1845 was followed by Roman Catholic missionaries; conflict between Christian and Non-Christian tribals...
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(tutor and research fellow). Simon Price, Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor (1986) ISBN 978-0-521-31268-4 Mary Beard, John North...
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Polytheistic reconstructionism Reconstructionist Roman religion Religion in ancient Rome Roman imperial cult Wicca Notes An alternative English spelling for...
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