1. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 2.70.1-2.70.5 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •claudius, deification of Found in books: Shannon-Henderson (2019) 4 | 2.70.1. The sixth division of his religious institutions was devoted to those the Romans call Salii, whom Numa himself appointed out of the patricians, choosing twelve young men of the most graceful appearance. These are the Salii whose holy things are deposited on the Palatine hill and who are themselves called the (Salii) Palatini; for the (Salii) Agonales, by some called the Salii Collini, the repository of whose holy things is on the Quirinal hill, were appointed after Numa's time by King Hostilius, in pursuance of a vow he had made in the war against the Sabines. All these Salii are a kind of dancers and singers of hymns in praise of the gods of war. 2.70.2. Their festival falls about the time of the Panathenaea, in the month which they call March, and is celebrated at the public expense for many days, during which they proceed through the city with their dances to the Forum and to the Capitol and to many other places both private and public. They wear embroidered tunics girt about with wide girdles of bronze, and over these are fastened, with brooches, robes striped with scarlet and bordered with purple, which they call trabeae; this garment is peculiar to the Romans and a mark of the greatest honour. On their heads they wear apices, as they are called, that is, high caps contracted into the shape of a cone, which the Greeks call kyrbasiai. 2.70.3. They have each of them a sword hanging at their girdle and in their right hand they hold a spear or a staff or something else of the sort, and on their left arm a Thracian buckler, which resembles a lozenge-shaped shield with its sides drawn in, such as those are said to carry who among the Greeks perform the sacred rites of the Curetes. 2.70.4. And, in my opinion at least, the Salii, if the word be translated into Greek, are Curetes, whom, because they are kouroi or "young men," we call by that name from their age, whereas the Romans call them Salii from their lively motions. For to leap and skip is by them called salire; and for the same reason they call all other dancers saltatores, deriving their name from the Salii, because their dancing also is attended by much leaping and capering. 2.70.5. Whether I have been well advised or not in giving them this appellation, anyone who pleases may gather from their actions. For they execute their movements in arms, keeping time to a flute, sometimes all together, sometimes by turns, and while dancing sing certain traditional hymns. But this dance and exercise performed by armed men and the noise they make by striking their bucklers with their daggers, if we may base any conjectures on the ancient accounts, was originated by the Curetes. I need not mention the legend which is related concerning them, since almost everybody is acquainted with it. |
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| 2. Livy, History, 1.5, 1.19-1.20 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •claudius, deification of Found in books: Shannon-Henderson (2019) 4 |
| 3. Ovid, Fasti, 2.259-80, 6.249, 381-421 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan nan |
| 4. Seneca The Younger, Apocolocyntosis, 11.4-11.5 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •claudius, deification of Found in books: Shannon-Henderson (2019) 33 |
| 5. Seneca The Younger, De Clementia, 1.10.3 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •claudius, deification of Found in books: Shannon-Henderson (2019) 33 |
| 6. Suetonius, Caligula, 24 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •claudius, deification of Found in books: Shannon-Henderson (2019) 343 |
| 7. Suetonius, Claudius, 45 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •claudius, deification of Found in books: Shannon-Henderson (2019) 281 |
| 8. Suetonius, Vespasianus, 9.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •claudius, deification of Found in books: Shannon-Henderson (2019) 281 |
9. Tacitus, Annals, 1.5.1, 1.9.3-1.9.5, 1.10.8, 1.11.1, 3.64.2-3.64.4, 6.18.2, 6.22.4, 12.61, 12.62.1, 12.63.1-12.63.3, 12.66, 12.67.2, 12.69.3, 13.2.3, 13.2.6, 13.3.2, 15.23.4-15.23.5, 16.22.1-16.22.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •claudius, deification of •deification, of claudius Found in books: Davies (2004) 180; Shannon-Henderson (2019) 33, 274, 280, 281, 343| 12.61. Rettulit dein de immunitate Cois tribuenda multaque super antiquitate eorum memoravit: Argivos vel Coeum Latonae parentem vetustissimos insulae cultores; mox adventu Aesculapii artem medendi inlatam maximeque inter posteros eius celebrem fuisse, nomina singulorum referens et quibus quisque aetatibus viguissent. quin etiam dixit Xenophontem, cuius scientia ipse uteretur, eadem familia ortum, precibusque eius dandum ut omni tributo vacui in posterum Coi sacram et tantum dei ministram insulam colerent. neque dubium habetur multa eorundem in populum Romanum merita sociasque victorias potuisse tradi: set Claudius facilitate solita quod uni concesserat nullis extrinsecus adiumentis velavit. 12.66. In tanta mole curarum valetudine adversa corripitur, refovendisque viribus mollitia caeli et salubritate aquarum Sinuessam pergit. tum Agrippina, sceleris olim certa et oblatae occasionis propera nec ministrorum egens, de genere veneni consultavit, ne repentino et praecipiti facinus proderetur; si lentum et tabidum delegisset, ne admotus supremis Claudius et dolo intellecto ad amorem filii rediret. exquisitum aliquid placebat, quod turbaret mentem et mortem differret. deligitur artifex talium vocabulo Locusta, nuper veneficii damnata et diu inter instrumenta regni habita. eius mulieris ingenio paratum virus, cuius minister e spadonibus fuit Halotus, inferre epulas et explorare gustu solitus. | 12.61. He next proposed to grant immunity to the inhabitants of Cos. of their ancient history he had much to tell:â "The earliest occupants of the island had," he said, "been Argives â or, possibly, Coeus, the father of Latona. Then the arrival of Aesculapius had introduced the art of healing, which attained the highest celebrity among his descendants" â here he gave the names of the descendants and the epochs at which they had all flourished. "Xenophon," he observed again, "to whose knowledge he himself had recourse, derived his origin from the same family; and, as a concession to his prayers, the Coans ought to have been exempted from all forms of tribute for the future and allowed to tet their island as a sanctified place subservient only to its god." There can be no doubt that a large number of services rendered by the islanders to Rome, and of victories in which they had borne their part, could have been cited; but Claudius declined to disguise by external aids a favour which, with his wonted complaisance, he had accorded to an individual. 12.66. Under the weight of anxiety, his health broke down, and he left for Sinuessa, to renovate his strength by the gentle climate and the medicinal springs. At once, Agrippina â long resolved on murder, eager to seize the proffered occasion, and at no lack for assistants â sought advice upon the type of poison. With a rapid and drastic drug, the crime, she feared, would be obvious: if she decided for a slow and wasting preparation, Claudius, face to face with his end and aware of her treachery, might experience a return of affection for his son. What commended itself was something recondite, which would derange his faculties while postponing his dissolution. An artist in this domain was selected â a woman by the name of Locusta, lately sentenced on a poisoning charge, and long retained as part of the stock-in-trade of absolutism. Her ingenuity supplied a potion, administered by the eunuch Halotus, whose regular duty was to bring in and taste the dishes. |
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| 10. Tacitus, Histories, 1.10.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •claudius, deification of Found in books: Shannon-Henderson (2019) 33 |
11. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 56.30.2, 60.5.2 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •claudius, deification of Found in books: Shannon-Henderson (2019) 281 | 56.30.2. For she was afraid, some say, that Augustus would bring him back to make him sovereign, and so smeared with poison some figs that were still on trees from which Augustus was wont to gather the fruit with his own hands; then she ate those that had not been smeared, offering the poisoned ones to him. 60.5.2. His grandmother Livia he not only honoured with equestrian contests but also deified; and he set up a statue to her in the temple of Augustus, charging the Vestal Virgins with the duty of offering the proper sacrifices, and he ordered that women should use her name in taking oaths. |
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