TY - JOUR
TI - The Imperial Cult: A Cretan Perspective
AU - Baldwin Bowsky, Martha W.
TI - The Imperial Cult: A Cretan Perspective
AB - Forty years after the publication of Sanders’ Roman Crete, a broader range of evidence for the imperial cult on Crete is available—temples and other structures, monumental architectural members, imperial altars, portraiture and statuary, coinage, statue and portrait bases, other inscriptions, priest and high priests, members and archons of the Panhellenion, and festivals—and far more places can now be identified as cities participating in the imperial cult. This evidence can be set into multiple Cretan contexts, beginning with the establishment and evolution of the imperial cult across Crete, before locating the imperial cult in the landscape of Roman Crete. The ultimate Cretan contexts are the role of emperor worship in the lives of the island’s population, as it was incorporated into Cretan religious and social systems.
VL - 2023
IS - Volume 30
PY - 2023
SN - 1897-3426
C1 - 2084-3909
SP - 353
EP - 399
DO - 10.4467/20800909EL.23.013.17330
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/electrum/article/the-imperial-cult-a-cretan-perspective
KW - imperial cult
KW - Cretan religion
KW - Cretan society
KW - Greek East
KW - Roman Crete