Choisir ses dieux en temps de guerre civile. La légitimation religieuse du pouvoir dans le monde romain vue à travers le monnayage

As a result of the exceptional diversity of coin types (many of which depicting deities) in the Roman coinage from the 130s B.C. onwards, coin iconography is a privileged source for studying the references to the religious sphere in the “political communication” in Rome. This paper focuses on the co...

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Main Author: Pierre Assenmaker
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Language:fra
Published: Presses universitaires du Midi 2019-11-01
Series:Pallas
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/18669
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description As a result of the exceptional diversity of coin types (many of which depicting deities) in the Roman coinage from the 130s B.C. onwards, coin iconography is a privileged source for studying the references to the religious sphere in the “political communication” in Rome. This paper focuses on the coinages issued during the Roman civil wars from the 1st century B.C. to the Severan time. Some examples illustrate the functions and the “fields of intervention” of the deities that are depicted on these coins, and shed light on the composition of the “coin pantheons”. The conclusion stresses that the particular interest for some gods attested by the coin types led occasionally into the creation of new cults, a fact that invites not to create a too rigid separation between religion strictly speaking and the sphere of “free interpretations”.
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Choisir ses dieux en temps de guerre civile. La légitimation religieuse du pouvoir dans le monde romain vue à travers le monnayage
Pallas
Roman coinage
civil wars
coin pantheons
divine networks
religious ideology
public cult
title Choisir ses dieux en temps de guerre civile. La légitimation religieuse du pouvoir dans le monde romain vue à travers le monnayage
title_full Choisir ses dieux en temps de guerre civile. La légitimation religieuse du pouvoir dans le monde romain vue à travers le monnayage
title_fullStr Choisir ses dieux en temps de guerre civile. La légitimation religieuse du pouvoir dans le monde romain vue à travers le monnayage
title_full_unstemmed Choisir ses dieux en temps de guerre civile. La légitimation religieuse du pouvoir dans le monde romain vue à travers le monnayage
title_short Choisir ses dieux en temps de guerre civile. La légitimation religieuse du pouvoir dans le monde romain vue à travers le monnayage
title_sort choisir ses dieux en temps de guerre civile la legitimation religieuse du pouvoir dans le monde romain vue a travers le monnayage
topic Roman coinage
civil wars
coin pantheons
divine networks
religious ideology
public cult
url http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/18669
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