07-30-2007, 03:31 PM
Quote:I will check for more later. One thing is the calender from Dura Europos (dating to 223-227CE!) which contains the birthday of Germanicus Caesar (24th May).Don't check: this is sufficient! I now recall that Germanicus (or was it Drusus?) is also mentioned in a Spanish inscription!
Quote:.... It was more of an empirewide ancestor cult. You were part of a good thing and gave proper credit for that.That all very true, yet there remains this nagging doubt: if ruler cult in Antiquity was so well-accepted (and it certainly was on state and municipal level), then why don't we see the Divus Imperator and his relatives in the private cults? Why is Fulvus so extremely rare?
