Emperor worship and Roman religion
By: Ittai Gradel
Series: Oxford classical monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Emperor worship -- Rome; Rome -- Religion
Description: "This book presents the first study of emperor worship among the Romans themselves, both in Rome and in its heartland Italy. It argues that emperor worship was indeed perfectly in keeping with Roman religious tradition, which has been generally misunderstood by a posterity imbued in radically different notions of the relationship between man and the divine."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [380]-392) and index