Nemesis, the Roman State and the GamesBRILL, 1993 - 373 oldal Although Nemesis was already revered in Archaic Greece, the main evidence for worship comes from the Roman Principate. During this period two important facets of the cult were the association of the goddess with the state, and her presence in agonistic contexts. "Nemesis, the Roman State and the Games" explores these aspects, discerning a possible connection between them. The author begins by discussing the origin and background of the goddess. He then clarifies the ways in which the goddess was enlisted into the service of the Roman emperor and state. Finally, he explains the presence of the goddess almost exclusively at the Roman "Munus" and "Venatio" as derived from the function of such games to express the proper order of society. "Nemesis" represents a significant re-evaluation of the place of Nemesis in the Roman World. The book also provides an invaluable corpus of epigraphic, literary, and iconographic evidence for the goddess. |
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Acknowledgements | 5 |
Introduction | 11 |
Nemesis and the Roman State | 15 |
Nemesis and the Games | 43 |
Conclusions | 89 |
Catalogue of the Epigraphic Evidence | 153 |
Nemesis and the Griffin A Corpus of the Evidence | 318 |
Examples of the Smyrna Nemesis Type | 328 |
Table 1 | 331 |
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Adrasteia Alexander Severus Alföldy altar amphitheater Appendix Aquincum arena Augusta bronze coinage Bulletin de Correspondance Cambridge Carnuntum Correspondance Hellenique cult Dacia damaged but legible DEAE Dedicated to Nemesis deity earlier references emperor Ephesos Exact original provenience Exact provenience Flavia Solva fragment further references gladiators Gordian III Graeca Greek Greek Anthology griffin Hadrian Harvard University Press imperial cult inscription interpretation Julia Domna Loeb Classical Library marble Nemesis Nemesis shrine Object Type Plate Posnansky 1890 post-date the Trajanic praenomen provenience is unknown provenience is unspecified relief Reprinted by permission Rhamnous Roman Imperial Sarmizegetusa second century A.C. secondary context Severus Smyrna statue Text CIL Thasos theater third century A.C. Trajanic Trajanic conquest Tranquillina Translation Author Translation Reprinted Volkmann wheel written in ligature δὲ εἰς ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ μὲν Νεμέσει Νεμέσεως Νέμεσις τὰ τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τῷ τῶν ὡς