Institute for the Classical Tradition
ANRW II.17.2, pp. 950-1030
 
The Goddess Roma
by Ronald Mellor, Los Angeles

Table of Contents

Introduction 952
I. The Origins of Roma 954
II. The Goddess Roma in the Greek World 956

1. Roma and Tuche

956

2. Roma and the Ruler Cult

957

3. Early Honors Paid to Roma

958

a) Temples

959

b) Altars

960

c) Statues

960

d) Roma on Greek Coins

961

e) Sacrifices

965

f) Dedications and Offerings

965

g) Miscellaneous Honors

965

4. Officials of the Cults of Roma

966

5. Festivals in Honor of Roma, Rhomaia)

966

6. Epithets of Roma

968

7. Roma in Greek Literature

969

8. Roma and Jupiter

971

9. Roma and Fides

972
III. Roma in the Roman Republic 972

1. The Meaning of Roma

972

2. Roma on Republican Coinage

974
IV. Roma in the Augustan Age 976

1. Roma and Republican Magistrates

976

2. Temples of Roma and Augustus

977

a) The Koinon of Asia

977

b) The Koinon of Bithynia

979

c) The Koinon of the Galatians

979

3. Provincial Priests

980

4. Local Greek Cults of Roma and Augustus

981

5. Rhomaia Sebasta

982

6. Roma and Augustus: From East to West

983
V. Roma and the Imperial Cult in the West 984

1. Provincial Cults Under the Julio-Claudians

986

a) The Three Gauls

986

b) Ara Ubiorum

987

c) Arae Sestianae

989

d) Templum Caesaris Among the Lingones

989

e) Hispania Citerior

990

f) Lusitania

992

g) Britain

992

2. Provincial Cults After the Civil War of 69

993

a) Gallia Narbonensis

993

b) Baetica

994

c) Africa Proconsularis

995

d) Flavian Policies

995

e) Minor Provincial Cults

996

f) Hadrian and the Provincial Cult

997

3. The Municipal Cults

998

a) Municipal Priests

998

a') Social Position

998

b') Titulature

999

c') Tenure

1001

d') Priestesses

1001

b) Altars

1002

c) Temples

1002

d) The Spontaneity of Municipal Cults

1004
VI. Roma in Roman Imperial Poetry 1004

1. Republican Background

1004

2. Writers of the Augustan Age

1005

Horace

1005

Vergil

1006

Propertius

1007

Tibullus

1008

Livy

1008

Ovid

1009

3. Post-Augustan Writers

1010
VII. Roma in Roman Imperial Art 1011

1. Roma as Athena

1012

2. Roma as Amazon in Historical Relief

1013

3. The Composite Type

1015

4. Roma Aeterna

1016

5. Roma and Constantinopolis

1017
VIII. Roma Aeterna 1018

1. Roma and Aion

1018

2. Republican Ideas of Eternity

1019

3. Augustan Ideas of Rome's Eternity

1019

4. Vesta

1020

5. Aeternitas Augusti

1020

6. Temple of Venus and Roma

1021

7. The Priesthood of Roma

1023

8. Roma and the Last Pagans

1024

9. Roma Aeterna and the Christians

1024
IX. Conclusion 1025
Bibliography 1028

I. General Studies with Material on Roma

1028

II. Studies Concerned with Roma

1029
List of Illustrations 1030
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