how a Roman emperor crowned?

[john m roberts]

Romans had a near-visceral revulsion toward anything "oriental" and kingship and its trappings were among these. Wouldn't the Romans have regarded a physical "coronation" (actually, assuming a diadem) to have been hopelessly degenerate and oriental? I'm with Epictetus here. I think that the assumption of the numerous magistraces, commands and priesthoods that went with the Imperium of the Principate sufficed, without a ceremony that might make senators and citizens feel that they were groveling before a monarch.