Religion under Augustus
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- Religion under Augustus
- Background information
- Religion in Rome bled into daily life.
- No set religion in Rome
- No idea of conversion
- No idea of Hell or eternal damnation
- Ways of worshiping in the Gods.
- Libations
- Curses and prayers
- Animal Sacrifices
- Ara Pacis
- Rome never worshipped anyone still alive.
- Changes under Augustus
- Restored Ancient Cults as well as created his own
- Made Julius Caesar a God
- 42BC
- Forum of Augustus
- Allowed Augustus to have this as propaganda on coins - calling himself the "son of a God"
- Drusus founded an Altar to Roma and Augustus in Lyon - 12BC
- 42BC
- Lares
- Protective Spirits
- Each District in Rome had its own shrine to a Lares -14 in total
- Augustus revived public shrines to Lares
- Res Gestae Chapter 19
- Background information
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