Apotheosis and after life : three lectures on certain phases of art and religion in the Roman Empire (1915)
Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · London : Constable · leaf 102
ken of whichhis face, in early times at least, was painted blood-red like the gods; he carried the thunderbolt andivory sceptre ; he wore the toga picta—the greatembroidered mantle—as talisman of dominion andof victory; and he rode in the four-horse chariot, thequadriga, which is no other than the… … DIVVS AVGVSTVS 65 that the growing behef in an after life of blessednessreserved for those who had deserved well of theState, combined with the temporary deification ofthe TriumpJiator, were more powerful factors in Im-perial Deification and Imperial Apotheosis than anyattempt on the part of the…
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