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a. d. viiii Kalendas Octobres, dies natalis Augusti. Some Considerations on the Astronomical Orientation of Roman Cologne and the Imperial Cult

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a. d. viiii Kalendas Octobres, dies natalis Augusti. Some Considerations on the Astronomical Orientation of Roman Cologne and the Imperial Cult

[Article]

David Espinosa-Espinosa, A. César González-García

Leiden

Brill

A key factor in planning and orienting towns in the Roman world, and in particular in Augustan towns, was cosmology. The application of cosmological criteria in these towns, associated with specific political and religious principles of the principate of Augustus, has been already identified in Italia, Gallia, and Hispania. In this article we examine the orientation of the Roman town of Ara Ubiorum (present day Cologne) that could be related with the dies natalis Augusti. Based on these results, such a relation could have been deliberately sought by Roman and Ubian authorities to connect the newly founded town, where there was an ara of the Imperial cult probably consecrated to Rome and Augustus, with Augustus, who was identified with Apollo-Sol.

2017

545-567

Numen

64/5-6

1568-5276

Apollo-Sol

Augustus

Comparative Religion & Religious Studies

cosmology

General

History of Religion

Imperial cult

orientation

Religion & Society

Religion in Antiquity

Religious Studies

Roman Cologne

Social Sciences

A. César González-García

David Espinosa-Espinosa

10.1163/15685276-12341479

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[Article]

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