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On Greek Intellectuals and the Roman Emperor Cult
Mythos, 2020 The stance of Greek intellectuals towards the idea and the practice of Roman emperor cult has been often examined, with the main result that the complacent, conformist attitude of these subjects of the Empire has been ascertained (thus in a still basic ...
Kostas Buraselis
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The Provincial Imperial Cult in the Levant (Syria, Phoenice, Commagene, Judea, Decapolis, Arabia)
Electrum, 2023 The provincial imperial cult represents one of the most relevant expressions of multiform relationship between provincial communities and Roman authorities especially in the East.
Marco Vitale
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Kejserkult i den romerske husstand
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1990 A recurrent statement in scholarship on the Roman imperial cult has been that the phenomenon was but a political expression of loyalty towards the emperor, involving little “truly religious” sentiment for the worshippers.
Ittai Gradel
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Pallas, 2019 The modern notion of “imperial cult” is not mere appropriate to describe the diversity of rites created to worship the emperors throughout the empire : the official Roman cult, which was principally devoted to the Divi and to the Genius and the Numen of ...
Gabrielle Frija
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Religions, 2020 This article explores the role that local elites played in the development of the Mazu cult, a local goddess cult in Putian district in late imperial China. I argue that local elites were central in the promotion and transmission of the cult.
Yanchao Zhang
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The Beginning of the Imperial Cult in Hispania in the Augustan Era
Gerión, 2017 Contrary to the assertions which linked the beginnings of the imperial cult in Hispania to the influence of indigenous traditions, evidence of Augustan period stresses the role of Roman authority and, in particular, of military commanders, with the ...
Francisco Marco Simón
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Seleucos I and the Cult of Zeus Nikatôr
Electrum, 2023 In order to study the cult of Zeus Nikatôr, six Greek inscriptions (one from northern Syria and five from southern Anatolia) are gathered and commented.
Hadrien Bru
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Les cultes privés chez les Romains (iiie s. avant – iiie s. après J.-C.)
Pallas, 2019 To talk about domestic cults seems more appropriate than to talk about private cults, since most of the non-public religious acts take place around the domestic hearth, under the pater familias’ direction.
Marie-Odile Charles-Laforge
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Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2021 The recent data related to the legend of St Anastasia in Byzantium require a fresh analysis of the mutually connected cults of Anastasia and Febronia in both the Christian East and West.
Basil Lourié
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Religions, 2019 Drawing from Stephan Feuchtwang’s influential notion of “imperial metaphor,” this article explores the role that the state played in the development of the Mazu cult in late imperial China.
Yanchao Zhang
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