By Michael Koortbojian
"This publication examines the recent establishment of divinization that emerged as a political phenomenon on the finish of the Roman Republic with the deification of Julius Caesar. Michael Koortbojian addresses the myriad difficulties concerning Caesar's, and hence Augustus', divinization, in a chain of experiences dedicated to the advanced personality of the hot imperial approach. those investigations specialize in the huge spectrum of Read more...
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94, tr. Ramsey and Licht). The addition of the star would duly visualize the transformation of Caesar the man, now "among the spirits of the immortal gods," i n what must be seen as the visual equivalent of the aggrandizing language of the poets. Caesar's added star signified the heavens, where his real star was deemed permanently visible, and hence the sign became the fitting symbol of a divinity who dwelled there. The imagery was hardly novel; indeed, a star had figured i n the coinage of the late republic as an attribute of the gods' iconography; yet now i t was to serve a new, grander purpose.
A n d for Romulus, although a long tradition places his hut on the Palatine, his 20 T H E Q U E S T I O N OF CAESAR'S D I V I N I T Y tomb i n the Forum Romanum, and a statue at the Ficus Ruminalis erected by the Ogulnii i n 296 depicting the twins suckled by the wolf long thought to be the Lupa Capitolina, the sources offer no evidence of cult; i t was Quirinus — Romulus' 21 divinized form — who would receive a cult and a temple. Thus, of the three it was Hercules alone who was to have a sanctuary and altar at Rome (the Ara Maxima), possibly numerous temples, and one attested cult statue.
Cic. De Nat. Deor. 60-2). They also observed the long-standing Greek custom of worshipping specific aspects of the traditional gods by the adumbration of epithets (epiklesis), as i f requiring individuated divinities for all that lay w i t h i n one of the traditional gods' purview; thus, for example, they distinguished Venus Genetrix, the mother, from Venus Victrix, the bringer of victory. A l l of these ideas had become gods to the Romans; all had shrines; all received cult; all were held to be propitious, and to 20 offer beneficia.