| 1. Hebrew Bible, Job, 4.5.29-4.5.36 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 235 |
2. Septuagint, Wisdom of Solomon, 14.12-14.21 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 234 | 14.12. For the idea of making idols was the beginning of fornication,and the invention of them was the corruption of life, 14.13. for neither have they existed from the beginning nor will they exist for ever." 14.14. For through the vanity of men they entered the world,and therefore their speedy end has been planned. 14.15. For a father, consumed with grief at an untimely bereavement,made an image of his child, who had been suddenly taken from him;and he now honored as a god what was once a dead human being,and handed on to his dependents secret rites and initiations. 14.16. Then the ungodly custom, grown strong with time, was kept as a law,and at the command of monarchs graven images were worshiped. 14.17. When men could not honor monarchs in their presence, since they lived at a distance,they imagined their appearance far away,and made a visible image of the king whom they honored,so that by their zeal they might flatter the absent one as though present. 14.18. Then the ambition of the craftsman impelled even those who did not know the king to intensify their worship." 14.19. For he, perhaps wishing to please his ruler,skilfully forced the likeness to take more beautiful form, 14.20. and the multitude, attracted by the charm of his work,now regarded as an object of worship the one whom shortly before they had honored as a man. 14.21. And this became a hidden trap for mankind,because men, in bondage to misfortune or to royal authority,bestowed on objects of stone or wood the name that ought not to be shared. |
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| 3. Ovid, Epistulae Ex Ponto, 1.4.55-1.4.56, 2.8.9-2.8.10, 2.8.17-2.8.20, 4.9.105-4.9.112 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 235 |
| 4. Augustus, Res Gestae Divi Augusti, 24.2 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 235 |
| 5. Seneca The Younger, De Beneficiis, 3.26.1-3.26.2 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 237 |
| 6. Suetonius, Augustus, 98.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 234 |
| 7. Tacitus, Annals, 1.73.2-1.73.3, 3.6.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 236, 237 |
8. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 10.8 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 235 | 10.8. To Trajan. When, Sir, your late father, * both by a very fine speech and by setting them a most honourable example himself, urged every citizen to deeds of liberality, I sought permission from him to transfer to a neighbouring township all the statues of the emperors which had come into my possession by various bequests and were kept just as I had received them ill my distant estates, and to add thereto a statue of himself. He granted the request and made most flattering references to myself, and I immediately wrote to the decurions asking them to assign me a plot of ground upon which I might erect a temple ** at my own cost, and they offered to let me choose the site myself as a mark of appreciation of the task I had undertaken. But first my own ill-health, then your father's illness, and subsequently the anxieties of the office you bestowed upon me, have prevented my proceeding with the work. However, I think the present is a convenient opportunity for getting on with it, for my month of duty ends on the Kalends of September and the following month contains a number of holidays. I ask, therefore, as a special favour, that you will allow me to adorn with your statue the work which I am about to begin ; and secondly, that in order to complete it as soon as possible, you will grant me leave of absence. It would be alien to my frank disposition if I were to conceal from your goodness the fact that you will, if you grant me leave, be incidentally aiding very materially my private fices. The rent of my estates in that district exceeds 400,000 sesterces, and if the new tets are to be settled in time for the next pruning, the letting of the farms must not be any further delayed. Besides, the succession of bad vintages we have had forces me to consider the question of making certain abatements, and I cannot enter into that question unless I am on the spot. So, Sir, if for these reasons you grant me leave for thirty days, I shall owe to your kindness the speedy fulfilment of a work of loyalty and the settlement of my private fices. I cannot reduce the length of leave I ask for to narrower limits, inasmuch as the township and the estates I have spoken of are more than a hundred and fifty miles from Rome. 0 |
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9. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 57.24.7, 59.26.3, 67.12.2, 77.16.22 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 236, 237 | 57.24.7. A man who had sold the emperor's statue along with his house was brought to trial for doing this, and would certainly have been put to death by Tiberius, had not the consul called upon the emperor himself to give his vote first; for in this way Tiberius, being ashamed to appear to be favouring himself, cast his vote for acquittal. 59.26.3. When Gaius showed pleasure at this and declared that he had become reconciled with them, they voted various festivals and also decreed that the emperor should sit on a high platform even in the very senate-house, to prevent anyone from approaching him, and should have a military guard even there; they likewise voted that his statues should be guarded. 67.12.2. Many persons were also fined or put to death on other charges. Thus, a woman was tried and put to death because she had undressed in front of an image of Domitian, and a man for having associated with astrologers. Among the many who perished at this time was Mettius Pompusianus, |
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10. Pliny The Younger, Letters, 10.8 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 235 | 10.8. To Trajan. When, Sir, your late father, * both by a very fine speech and by setting them a most honourable example himself, urged every citizen to deeds of liberality, I sought permission from him to transfer to a neighbouring township all the statues of the emperors which had come into my possession by various bequests and were kept just as I had received them ill my distant estates, and to add thereto a statue of himself. He granted the request and made most flattering references to myself, and I immediately wrote to the decurions asking them to assign me a plot of ground upon which I might erect a temple ** at my own cost, and they offered to let me choose the site myself as a mark of appreciation of the task I had undertaken. But first my own ill-health, then your father's illness, and subsequently the anxieties of the office you bestowed upon me, have prevented my proceeding with the work. However, I think the present is a convenient opportunity for getting on with it, for my month of duty ends on the Kalends of September and the following month contains a number of holidays. I ask, therefore, as a special favour, that you will allow me to adorn with your statue the work which I am about to begin ; and secondly, that in order to complete it as soon as possible, you will grant me leave of absence. It would be alien to my frank disposition if I were to conceal from your goodness the fact that you will, if you grant me leave, be incidentally aiding very materially my private fices. The rent of my estates in that district exceeds 400,000 sesterces, and if the new tets are to be settled in time for the next pruning, the letting of the farms must not be any further delayed. Besides, the succession of bad vintages we have had forces me to consider the question of making certain abatements, and I cannot enter into that question unless I am on the spot. So, Sir, if for these reasons you grant me leave for thirty days, I shall owe to your kindness the speedy fulfilment of a work of loyalty and the settlement of my private fices. I cannot reduce the length of leave I ask for to narrower limits, inasmuch as the township and the estates I have spoken of are more than a hundred and fifty miles from Rome. 0 |
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| 11. Menander of Laodicea, Rhet., 2.1-2.2 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 235 |
| 12. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Caracalla, 5.7 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 237 |
| 13. Methodius of Olympus, De Resurrectione, 2.24.1 (4th cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 238 |
| 14. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Marcus Antoninus, 18.5-18.6 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 235 |
| 15. Theodosius Ii Emperor of Rome, Theodosian Code, 15.4.1 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 237 |
| 16. Digesta, Digesta, 48.4.4.1 Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 236 |
| 17. Augustine, Quaest.In Genesim, 13 Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 238 |
| 19. Germanus of Constantinople, On Retribution (Ap. Phot. Bibl. Cod., 4 Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 238 |
| 20. Jerome, Hom. De Native. Dom. Ll., 1.35, 1.49, 3.12, 3.58, 3.127, 3.138 Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 238 |
| 21. Marcian, Digesta, 48.4.5 Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 236 |
| 22. Venuleius Saturninus, Digesta, 48.4.6 Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 236 |
| 23. Apuleius, Anab., 3.5 Tagged with subjects: •portraits, imperial, sanctity of Found in books: Ando (2013) 239 |
