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	Role of the Roman Imperial Cult During the Augustan Age
		The cults usual location was in the middle of a city where it was integrated into the centre of religious, political and economic life, such as the round Temple of Roma and Augustus on the Athenian Acropolis very near the Erechtheum and Parthenon [7].
		Complementary to the spread of the imperial cult during this period was the widespread diffusion of the traditional gods of Rome [10], as well as the revival and establish of ancient cults closely identified with Augustus and with his family, notably the cults of Apollo and Mars Ultor.
		Thus, the imperial cult, though an important political institution of the Roman empire, widely promoted and accepted because of the political and material benefits, did have religious significance and the emperor was truly have been regarded as divine and accepted as a god by some.
	janusquirinus.org /essays/Cult.html (2150 words)

	Imperial cult - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An Imperial cult is a kind of religion in which an Emperor, or a dynasty of emperors, are worshipped as demigods or deities.
		In the Roman Empire the Imperial cult was the worship of the Roman emperor as a god.
		In Tamriel, Imperial Cult is an organization worshipping the Nine Divines, one of whom is Talos, the first Emperor of the Septim dynasty and founder of The Third Empire of Tamriel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_cult (631 words)

	The Roman Imperial Cult: A Bibliography
		Fishwick, Duncan, "Dio and Maecenas : the emperor and the ruler cult," Phoenix 44 (1990) 267-275.
		Fishwick, Duncan, "Prudentius and the cult of Divus Augustus," Historia 39 (1990) 475-486.
		Fishwick Duncan, "The altar of Augustus and the municipal cult of Tarraco," MDAI(M) Fishwick Duncan, "An early provincial priest of Lusitania," Historia 31 (1982) 249-252.
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/impcult.html (3363 words)

	Philip A. Harland: Imperial Cults within Local Cultural Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Imperial cults have been a focal point of debate regarding the relation between religion and politics under Roman rule in the provinces, particularly in the Greek East.
		Underestimating the social and religious significance of imperial cults for the populace is partially the result of the imposition of modern viewpoints and assumptions onto ancient evidence.
		Despite his recognition of the varied importance of imperial cults (beyond the political), Price argues that, in general, sacrifices were consciously made "on behalf of" the emperors rather than "to" the emperors (using the dative), and that the majority of the evidence from Asia Minor reflects a conscious effort to use the former terminology.
	www.philipharland.com /articleAHB.html (8833 words)

	roman history, roman civilization
		While the cult of Mithras was limited to men and tended to draw upon the military for its adherents, many, if not most, cults were highly democratic in their membership - women and men from a range of ethnic identities worshipped together, as did freedmen and senators (and sometimes slaves).
		Mystery cults offered their adherents a very specific vision of the nature of the world, and access to a personal relationship with the divine that would offer them a transcendent peace in their human existence, and very often the prospect of a life that transcended death.
		Many mystery cults shared similar structural features: new worshippers were initiated into the cult after a ceremony in which they confessed or claimed their identity as adherents of the god.
	abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/cults.htm (2764 words)

	Myth Notes on Divinization
		Responsibility for the mainteance of the cult of the emperor fell upon the koinon of the Hellenes, which had already conferred honors upon Scaevola and had served as an intermediary between the cities of Asia and the Roman government.
		The principal official of the cult was known as the chief priest of Asia, and was chosen annually at the meeting of the assembly for a one year term.
		Salutaris further associated foundation with imperial cult through the lottery of the nine theologi, organized by the archiereus in the temple of Artemis on her birthday.
	www.albany.edu /faculty/lr618/ndiv.html (2490 words)

	Wikinfo \| Imperial cult (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An Imperial cult is a cult were an Emperor, or a dynasty of emperors, are worshipped as (semi-)gods or deities
		To the extent that participation in the imperial cult became a loyalty test, the imperial cult was a particularly aggressive sort of civil religion.
		Christians, of course, refused to worship the Emperor, considering the cult to be idolatry.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Imperial_cult (538 words)

	HONOURS FOR THE EMPERORS AND IMPERIAL CULTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Despite the views of Jews like the author of Revelation, who outright condemned any connection with Roman imperialism (he would not want you to honour the “whore” or the “beast”), other Jews and Christians, such as the author of 1 Peter (2:11-17), were more willing to demonstrate their honour without engaging in actual worship.
		In Asia, this central organization was known as the “Assembly (koinon) of Asia” and the imperial cult temples founded by this organization were primarily under the direction of the “high-priests of Asia”.
		Examples of this provincial level are the cult and temple for Domitian at Ephesos (built in the late 80s CE) and the cult and temple for Trajan at Pergamon (built in the early second century), which included festivals and games in his honour.
	www.philipharland.com /honours.html (783 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.7.25
		Alastair Small ("The shrine of the imperial family in the Macellum at Pompeii") likewise seeks to assign imperial cult to all three rooms at the back of the Macellum, chiefly from the evidence of statuary; he identifies two as Britannicus and Agrippina II and dates the whole to the beginning of Nero's reign.
		Three papers on imperial cult in the Greek east are confined to the Julio-Claudian period.
		Robert Turcan ("La promotion du sujet par le culte du souverain") notes the ways in which the imperial cult was a leveling force, treating participants of different rank equally, and then gathers from the minor arts evidence for private attention to the cult of emperors, revealing individual modes of involvement.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1997/97.07.25.html (1016 words)

	For My Gods and Emperor - A Handbook for the Imperial Cult (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Imperial cults have the greatest respect for the high moral principles of House Redoran and the Morag Tong, and honors their different but noble conceptions of Divine Inspiration.
		The Imperial cult especially disapproves of the practice of slavery, and looks forward to the day when slavery is illegal in all Imperial provinces.
		Though the Imperial cults acknowledges the lords and saints of the Temple pantheon as worthy inspirations, the Temple falsely insists that theirs is the One True Faith, and that the Imperial cults worship false gods.
	til.gamingsource.net /mwbooks/god_emperor.shtml (1198 words)

	The Imperial Cultus
		The imperial cult in all parts of the empire focused attention on the emperor as the patron of the world....
		Members of the imperial house also began to recieve unheard of honours; under Claudius, Messalina's birthday was celebrated and Agrippina appeared in sumptuous robes, while Nero deified his child by Poppaea and Poppaea herself after their deaths.
		Already by Paul's time it had become the dominant cult in a large part of the empire, certainly in the parts Paul was active, and was the means whereby the Romans managed to control and govern such huge areas as came under their sway.
	www.geocities.com /thelastdiscipleghost/imperialcultus.html (3302 words)

	The Imperial Cult Building
		Conclusions are that the south exedra of the cult building abuts the precinct wall of the adjacent sanctuary and that the southern side of the cult building's entrance overlaps and thickens the northern termination of the adjacent sanctuary's facade.
		Thus for Mau in 1879 the construction sequence was (a) the Augustan sanctuary, (b) the Imperial Cult Building (his "Curia," which he dated to the pre-earthquake period), and (c) the postearthquake facade of the Augustan sanctuary.
		The dome overhead and the broad doorways of the octagon dematerialize the traditional walls and roof of the trabeated enclosure and substitute curve and vista by means of the dome and the amply pierced octagonal container.
	pompeii.virginia.edu /icbmap.html (5906 words)

	Electronic Antiquities Volume III, Number 6
		Imperial cult seems to be a product of this relationship, rather than of clearly distinct initiatives from one side or the other.
		Eumachia's co-opting of imperial imagery is an excellent example of the imperial cult in the service of the subject (113).
		As to centres of the cult, a Temple of the Gens Julia is discerned on a large issue of coins.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ElAnt/V3N6/stevenson.html (3685 words)

	Imperial cult (ancient Rome) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The imperial cult in ancient Rome was the worship of the Roman Emperor as a god.
		For females of the Imperial dynasties, acquiring the title of Augusta, only exceptionally granted, was generally regarded as the essential stepstone to the status of divinity.
		The imperial cult was abandoned when Constantine I - who had adopted the christian religion - became Emperor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperial_cult_(Ancient_Rome) (824 words)

	The Elder Scrolls Source - Oblivion Mods and Plugins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The cults combine the worship of the Nine Divines, the Aedra Akatosh, Dibella, Arkay, Zenithar, Mara, Stendarr, Kynareth, and Julianos, and the Talos cult, veneration of the divine god-hero Tiber Septim, founder and patron of the Empire.
		Imperial cult priests provide worship and services for all these gods at Imperial shrines in settlements throughout Vvardenfell.
		The Imperial cults look to the Nine Divines as models for living a good and virtuous life.
	www.tessource.net /content.php?page=The+Imperial+Cult (647 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.09.18
		Fishwick's basic thesis is that Vespasian had broadened and standardized the imperial cult in the west in order to legitimate his power and consolidate provincial support through the institution of cult organized under such laws as the Lex Narbonensis.
		What is clear is that the priestess tended to the cult of the deified females and was drawn from the same families as the priests.
		D. Fishwick, The Imperial Cult in the Latin West, Studies in the Ruler Cult of the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire, Vol.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2006/2006-09-18.html (1806 words)

	The Imperial Guard (White Dwarf 109)
		The Imperial Guard makes up the vast bulk of the Imperial military machine; recruited from the planetary defence forces of the Imperium's millions of worlds, it is a huge military force of Humans and Abhumans.
		On the battlefield, Commissars accompany the highest- ranking officers in an Imperial Guard force, encouraging bravery and devotion to the Imperial cause, and ensure that cowardice and vacillation are punished and their effects on the force minimised.
		Imperial Guard units from frontier worlds which have an equestrian military culture are often used more or less permanently as mounted scouts and foragers.
	members.fortunecity.com /pangolinsaloon/fl/theimperialguard.htm (3837 words)

	Stone: Tenant Farmers and the Imperial Cult in Roman Africa
		A number of private and imperial estates in the countryside of North Africa contained inscribed stone plaques with records of dedications that tenant farmers made to the emperor.
		As studies of Roman religion have attested, dedications such as these to the imperial cult are conventional in the cities of Roman Africa, and also in other provinces, where they formed common bonds between provincial residents.
		I argue that through the promotion of the imperial cult tenant farmers managed to gain official support for their needs, and that this strategy became widespread on estates in Roman Africa.
	www.camws.org /meeting/2006/abstracts/stone1.html (349 words)

	BBC - History - Roman Religion Gallery
		Another element in the Roman state religion was what is generally referred to as the imperial cult.
		The imperial cult helped to focus the loyalty of provincials on the emperor at the centre of the empire, and in some regions (such as Gaul), there is evidence that Roman authorities took the initiative in setting it up, presumably for that very reason.
		They are shown by the portrait busts at the top of the frame, flanked by eagles - associated with imperial power and Jupiter - and were typically released during imperial funerals to represent the spirits of the deceased.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/romans/roman_religion_gallery_06.shtml (391 words)

	Reflections on Cult Worship in the Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cult worship is regarded as a private and practical matter, and public pronouncements by religious figures are not welcomed.
		The Imperial cult of Tiber Septim is just such a hero-cult, and among the military, provincial colonists, and recently assimilated foreigners, the cult is particularly strong and personal.
		The Tribunal Temple in Morrowind, and its predecessor, house ancestor cults, are, by contrast with Imperial cults, extremely intimate and personal.
	til.gamingsource.net /mwbooks/reflectionsoncult.shtml (368 words)

	Theology WebSite: Church History Study Helps: Emperor Worship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The reli.gious meaning of the ruler cult was not as great as its social and political importance where it served to testify to loyalty and to satisfy the ambition of leading families.
		The subject of the ruler cult has special importance for the study of early Christianity because it formed the focal point of the early church's conflict with paganism.
		For instance, when he reorganized the urban districts and the cult of the lares compitales he required a sacrifice to the genius of the emperor as part of the ceremonies.
	www.theologywebsite.com /history/rulercult.shtml (709 words)

	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Imperial Cult FAQ (PC) - IGN FAQs
		The Imperial Cult is basically the "goody two shoes" of all of the guilds.
		How to join the Imperial Cult: Talk to an Oracle about joing the imperial cult (there are 4 of them, but the easiest one to get to is the one in Fort Moonmoth near Balmora).
		A: Nope, the imperial cult worships the divine 9, where as the Temple worships the trbune.
	faqs.ign.com /articles/383/383016p1.html (3948 words)

	Revelation Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Roman rule and imperial cult are to be avoided because "imperial religion provided a means of expressing loyalty to an economic and political system that violated Christian standards of love and justice" (p.
		The strength of this book is that it surveys a rather large number of sources and works on trade, commercial, and to some degree imperial cult and archaeology.
		His own evidence concerning the connection between imperial cult and the maritime is also rather weak, and he does not convincingly argue that the were more than social clubs, as Kraybill admits (p.
	www.book-of-revelation.com /reviews/kraybill.html (3727 words)

	The Imperial Cult (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We often think, in the modern Christian-influenced religious viewpoint, that the Roman Imperial Cult, its worship of past emperors, is strange and even perhaps ridiculous.
		Even the "divine rights" of kings in the medieval era are a distant echo of this type of phenomenon; the British acclamation "The king is dead; long live the king" being one such form of this--that the divinity inherent in the royal person transcends their life and their individuality.
		In the modern period, the most recognized royal family, that of the United Kingdom, has something of a cult status in itself, with Princess Diana's very name "Diana" going back to the Roman deity of that name, whose name means "queen," and her divinely beautiful sons who are heirs to the throne.
	www.liminalityland.com /imperialcult.htm (1912 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Viewing the emperors as divine and worthy of prayers and honors, the cult was of considerable political value, enhancing the status of Rome within the provinces and ensuring the obedience of all imperial subjects.
		In Egypt, Greece, and parts of Asia Minor and in Gaul, as well as in Africa, the imperial cult was fostered in the name of "Roma et Augustus." Roman supremacy and unity were the result, and out of this early practice came the Cult of the Emperors.
		Just as the concilia did not survive the changes of the 2nd and 3rd centuries, the Imperial Cult suffered from the isolation of the emperors from the provinces and the instability of many regions.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=ROME0804 (614 words)

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