%0 Book Section %A Camia, Francesco %E %E Camia, Francesco%E %E Privitera, SantoEditors %D 2009 %T Imperatori romani tra gli dei greci: riflessioni sull’associazione tra culto imperiale e culti tradizionali in Grecia a partire dalla documentazione epigrafica %B Tekmeria 11 %@ ISBN: 88-87744-24-6 %I Fondazione Paestum %P 205–222 %U https://hdl.handle.net/10442/13472 %X In the Greek world the Roman emperors were associated with the traditional gods. The practice of integrating the emperors into their religious and cultural system permitted the Greeks to represent their new ‘masters’ to themselves in a more familiar way, and at the same time involved, at least in some cases, the celebration of joint rituals. It is not, however, always simple to recognize the latter. In this paper, based on specific cases from Greece, I focus on the epigraphic evidence and try to determine when inscriptions allow us to recognize forms of actual cultic association between Roman emperors and traditional Greek gods. The addition of epithets like Kaisareia or Sebasteia to the name of a traditional festival generally indicates that the emperors had been associated with that festival. Similarly, a joint priesthood of a traditional god and the emperor indicates that the latter was worshipped in association with the god. Joint altar dedications to emperors and gods, or to an emperor assimilated with a god, also usually imply joint rituals (sacrifices). As for assimilations, however, the existence in a given place of an ‘institutionalized’ joint cult of an emperor and the god to which he is assimilated can only be inferred by the presence in that place of an ‘active’ cult of the god. That is, of a cult provided with the typical features of every cult (priesthood, sanctuary, festival). %> Αποθετήριο Ήλιος / ΕΙΕ