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Priests of the groves (re)creating ancient rites in the Augustan culture

Simón, Francisco Marco (2015) Priests of the groves (re)creating ancient rites in the Augustan culture. Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 55 (1-4). pp. 79-90. ISSN 0044-5975

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Abstract

The past was reinvented in the Augustan culture through true or fictitious archaic cults, and this paper deals with some priesthoods related to sacred groves, or with the iconography of sacred luci appearing in some coins. Some examples are considered, such as an inscription from Peñaflor/Celti (Seville) mentioning a pontufex nemoris, a reference to the eques P. Aelius Marcellus, who appears in an epigraph from Umbria not only as Laurens Lavinas but also as flamen lucularis, or some images that document the reception of ancient notions of the sacred groves in the Roman provinces, as some recurrent types in the coins of Juba II of Mauritania depicting trees with an altar between them and the legend Lucus Augusti show. The question of whether these manifestations are merely expression of loyalism to the Emperor or whether they might imply some kind of local tradition is also posed.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PA Classical philology / klasszika-filológia
Depositing User: xKatalin xBarta
Date Deposited: 03 Jan 2017 12:24
Last Modified: 31 Mar 2017 23:16
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/44363

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