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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 July 2010
      22 April 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511676543
      9780521897242
      9781107499935
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511676543
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 270 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies
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    This book examines the connection between political and religious power in the pagan Roman Empire through a study of senatorial religion. Presenting a new collection of historical, epigraphic, prosopographic and material evidence, it argues that as Augustus turned to religion to legitimize his powers, senators in turn also came to negotiate their own power, as well as that of the emperor, partly in religious terms. In Rome, the body of the senate and priesthoods helped to maintain the religious power of the senate; across the Empire senators defined their magisterial powers by following the model of emperors and by relying on the piety of sacrifice and benefactions. The ongoing participation and innovations of senators confirm the deep ability of imperial religion to engage the normative, symbolic and imaginative aspects of religious life among senators.

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    "It is, in sum mainly on the basis of its strong empirical foundation that this book makes its most important contributions, and it is the reason, ultimately, that historians of the Roman empire and students of Roman religion will want it on their shelves." --BMCR

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