The Cult of Virtues and
Roman Imperial Ideology
by J. Rufus Fears, Bloomington, Indiana
Table of Contents
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| I. Introduction: The Deification of Abstract Ideas |
828 |
| II. The Cult of Virtues in the Religious Life of the Roman
Republic |
833 |
1. The Cult of Virtues and the Roman Religious
Mentality |
833 |
2. The Formation of Cults of Virtues and
the Political Life of the Roman Republic . |
841 |
| III. The Cult of Virtues in the Political Life of the Late
Republic |
869 |
1. Libertas: The Changing Image of a Roman
Virtue |
869 |
2. The Virtues of a Roman Prince |
875 |
a) The Hellenic Background |
875 |
b) The Age of Sulla and Pompey |
877 |
c) The Augustan Achievement |
884 |
| IV. The Cult of Virtues and the Ideology of the Principate
|
889 |
1. The Historical Outlines |
889 |
2. Optimus Princeps, Salus Generis
Humani: The Cults of Virtues and Imperial Propaganda
|
910 |
3. The Cult of Virtues in the Religious Life
of the Imperial Epoch |
924 |
| Appendix: Scholarship on the Cult of Virtues. Approaches and
Problems |
939 |
| List of Illustrations |
946 |
