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- Title
KAPITOLIJSKI HRAMOVI U HRVATSKOJ.
- Authors
Sinobad, Marko
- Abstract
The prevailing view in Croatian and foreign scholarly literature is that Roman cities with colony status had temples dedicated to the Capitoline Triad, i.e. Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Juno and Minerva, and that only colonies were exclusively entitled to build these temples. The results of more recent research raises doubts in this assertion, because they indicate a much more complex situation than that presented so far. In Croatia, a number of temples have been identified as temples of the Capitoline Triad, even though such conclusions are not sufficiently backed by sound arguments. The cult of the Capitoline Triad lost the significance it had during the Republic era after the onset of the changes brought by the reign of Octavian, i.e. Augustus. The strengthening of the role of the princeps in the Roman Empire was also reflected in the imperial religion. Even though the cult of the Capitoline Triad can be followed until the third century, the focus of imperial propaganda was placed on the ruler cult, particularly in the first century. Since the central forum temples of Roman cities and settlements were the principal disseminators of imperial propaganda, the public cult observed in them must be viewed in this context.
- Subjects
CROATIA; ROME; TEMPLES; ROMAN temples; RELIGIONS; CULTS; CITIES &; towns; EMPERORS; COLONIES
- Publication
Opuscula Archaeologica, 2007, Vol 31, p221
- ISSN
0473-0992
- Publication type
Article