Kejserkult i den romerske husstand by Ittai Gradel

“…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. …”
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Reinterpretación del relieve histórico emeritense de M. Agrippa a partir de un nuevo fragmento by Antonio M. Poveda Navarro

“…Taken this, the interpretative visión of the work of art is revised, thus obtaining verification that it is a typical sacrifice destined to the Román imperial cult, where very frequently we find either a high ranking official or someone belonging to the emperor's family, who is in charge of offering up the animal victim, a highiy symbolic and recurring sacrifice, which, like in the present case generally involves the ritual killing of a a bull.…”
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