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Arno Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1975. Hardcover. 0405070683 . Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name to ffep deleted with black marker. Very Faint staining to boards. ; Unchanged Reprint of 1931 Edition. Establishes the context of worship in the Roman state cult, Taylor brings her readers back a couple of centuries prior, to Alexander's time and other Hellenistic rulers. Then she guides the reader through Rome's Republic, Julius Caesar's attempts to make for himself a divine monarchy, his death and apotheosis. And logically the account follows Caesar's son, Augustus (the divi filius) and the founding of the imperial cult in Rome and throughout the empire. Taylor closes her work with Augustus' deification. ; Arno Press Collection. ; 296 pages .
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The Divinity of the Roman Emperor Hardcover - 1975
by Lily Ross Taylor
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- Title The Divinity of the Roman Emperor
- Author Lily Ross Taylor
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Arno Press, Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S.A.
- Date 1975
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780405070686 / 0405070683
- Library of Congress subjects Emperor worship - Rome, Augustus - Cult
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 75007348
- Dewey Decimal Code 292.213
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