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 |