Why the emperor had to be a god : Divine invisibilty, Imperial visibilty and the Numen Augusti

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2021

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HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société)

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Patients--Mortality Prehistoric antiquities Prehistory Prehistoric archaeology Mortality, Law of Early man Prehistoric human beings Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) Prehistoric humans Man, Prehistoric Prehistory Prehistoric archaeology Inscription Epigraphy Epigraphs (Inscriptions) Honour Heroism

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Christophe Goddard, « Why the emperor had to be a god : Divine invisibilty, Imperial visibilty and the Numen Augusti », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.1086/717918

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In the Greek world, during the Roman imperial period, inscriptions often described the emperor as ἰσόθεος, literally "godlike." It was an old habit. It was the way Greek cities used to honor their heroes in the past. 1 One could not deny that imperial power was superior, even if it was difficult to forget the mortality of its holder. We are facing here what seems to be a

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