The Cult Statues of the Pantheon

Thomas, Edmund

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“…There were countless statues and paintings of gods in this great religious building. According to the description of Cassius Dio in the Pantheon, the ancient German historian Heinrich Nissen tried to restore the statues' positions [8]. Romans worshiped many different gods; unlike "one god, one temple" in other places, the Pantheon was a temple dedicated to all the gods.…”

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Analysis of the Way of Rule in Ancient Rome through Today’s Tourist Sites

Meng¹,

Qian²,

Weng³

2023

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There are many magnificent monuments, from big cities to even small towns, in ancient Rome. These public buildings built by emperors and local elites are today’s famous Roman tourist sites. This essay will study the famous Roman public buildings—the religious building, amphitheater, and baths and understand how they influenced the rule of Rome and why emperors and local elites built so many public buildings. This study will combine archeological and written sources to analyze. Emperors and local elites used religion and many kinds of entertainment as a kind of soft power to maintain and consolidate their rule, which encouraged the rulers to build more baths, amphitheaters, and temples. Religious buildings aimed to unify people in the conquered area into Roman and make various regions in harmony under the same ruler. Both amphitheaters and baths provided people with various entertainments, which became an essential session in Roman social life and made it easy for rulers to consolidate their region. Amphitheaters could also function as places for political purposes. Public architecture could be regarded as a means of soft power, which brought Roman prosperity and the fate of collapse.

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Analysis of the Way of Rule in Ancient Rome through Today’s Tourist Sites

Meng¹,

Qian²,

Weng³

2023

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“… 88 For the figure type of Mars (identified on Antonine coins as Mars Ultor): Ryberg 1967: 69; Thomas 2017: 154–74.…”

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Divine Representation in Documentary Style: Gods on the Columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius

Runeckles

2023

J. Rom. Stud.

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This article examines the important roles played by gods in the friezes of the Columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius and argues that they are treated in a distinctive ‘documentary’ style, comparable in certain ways to accounts of divine action in Roman historiography and designed to produce a compelling narrative effect. First, the Columns and the deities they depict are discussed. The article then looks at cognate descriptions of gods in historiographical texts. Finally, other contemporary monuments that portray the gods are briefly examined to bring out further the distinctive character of the gods on the Columns. This analysis will be seen to have wider implications for our understanding of ‘historical narrative reliefs’ and imperial representation.

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“…On the Hadrianeum, seeCipollone (1996), 7-8;Claridge (1999), 117-127. On the question of whether the Pantheon was originally intended as an Augusteum and the differing levels to which it was intended to honour Augustus, seeMacDonald (1976), 76-86Godfrey and Hemsoll (1986), 196-198; Fishwick (1992), 334-335; Ziolkowski (2007), 470-473; (2009), 36-37; La Rocca (2015), 52-53;Thomas (2017), 181-182.Defining Rome's Pantheum…”

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Defining Rome’s Pantheum

Siwicki

2019

Journal of Ancient History

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Writing in the early third century AD, Julius Africanus claimed to have built a library “in the Pantheon” in Rome, the exact location of which remains elusive. In considering the competing possibilities for the site of the library, this paper argues that the building we commonly refer to as the Pantheon does not correspond to the ancient understanding of what the Pantheum was. The case is made that it was not a single building, but instead comprised a larger complex, of which the still-standing structure was only one part. This interpretation allows for a number of details associated with the Pantheon to be rethought within a wider context and alternative proposals advanced regarding the forecourt in front of porch, the “arch” in the centre of this space, the location of the now lost caryatids and bronze columns, the little understood Severan restoration, and the meanings of the much-discussed inscriptions on the façade.

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The Cult Statues of the Pantheon

Cited by 5 publications

References 55 publications

Analysis of the Way of Rule in Ancient Rome through Today’s Tourist Sites

Analysis of the Way of Rule in Ancient Rome through Today’s Tourist Sites

Divine Representation in Documentary Style: Gods on the Columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius

Defining Rome’s Pantheum

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