The divinization of Caesar and Augustus : precedents, consequences, implications /

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Author / Creator:	Koortbojian, Michael.
Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Description:	xxiii, 341 pages ; 26 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Caesar, Julius -- Cult. Caesar, Julius -- Art. Caesar, Julius -- Monuments. Augustus, -- Emperor of Rome, -- 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Cult. Augustus, -- Emperor of Rome, -- 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Art. Augustus, -- Emperor of Rome, -- 63 B.C.-14 A.D. -- Monuments. Augustus, -- Emperor of Rome, -- 63 B.C.-14 A.D. Caesar, Julius. Emperor worship -- Rome. Cults. Emperor worship. Monuments. Rome (Empire) Art.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9805025

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ISBN:	9780521192156 (hardback) 0521192153 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book examines the new institution of divinization that emerged as a political phenomenon at the end of the Roman Republic with the deification of Julius Caesar. Michael Koortbojian addresses the myriad problems related to Caesar's, and subsequently Augustus', divinization, in a sequence of studies devoted to the complex character of the new imperial system. These investigations focus on the broad spectrum of forms - monumental, epigraphic, numismatic, and those of social ritual - used to represent the most novel imperial institutions: divinization, a monarchial princeps, and a hereditary dynasty. Throughout, political and religious iconography is enlisted to serve in the study of these new Roman institutions, from their slow emergence to their gradual evolution and finally their eventual conventionalization"--

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Making men gods; 2. The question of Caesar's divinity and the problem of his cult statue; 3. Augural images: old traditions and new institutions; 4. Romulus, Quirinus, genius, divus; 5. Caesar's portrait and the Simulacrum Divi Iulii; 6. Auspicious, propitious, victorious; 7. Representation in an era of divinization; 8. Ad urbem et ex urbe: the imagery of the divus and its fate. 9. Coda: reverberations in the east.

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