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  • From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT attbi.com>
  • To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: proclamation in the emperor cult
  • Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 07:53:38 -0600

Stephen.Finlan AT durham.ac.uk wrote:
 There is hardly any
"proclamation" in the emperor cult, is there?  It's just
patronage, writ large.
 
What about the use of coins bearing imagery and inscriptions that celebrated the Emperor's divinity and accomplishments ?

And certainly, there's the Priene inscription from 9 BCE which is a public announcement that the birthday of "the god" Augustus should be celebrated and recognized as EUANGELLION for the entire world.

The providence which has ordered the whole of our life, showing concern and zeal, has ordained the most perfect consummation for human life by giving to it Augustus, by filling him with virtue for doing the work of a benefactor among men, and by sending in him, as it were, a saviour for us and those who come after us, to make war to cease, to create order everywhere... ; the birthday of the god [Augustus] was the beginning for the world of the glad tidings that have come to men through him...
Is this not proclamation?

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson
 

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  • proclamation in the emperor cult, Jeffrey B. Gibson, 12/12/2001

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