Augustalia
The Augustalia, also known as the Ludi Augustales ("Augustan Games"), was a
sacrifices, and the date became a holiday (feria
) on the official religious calendar of Rome.
The altar to Fortuna Redux was
magistrates.[3] Strictly speaking, the Augustalia was the anniversary sacrifice, though Augustalia can also refer to commemorations of Augustus on his birthday, September 23.[4]
Augustus lists the establishment of the festival in his posthumously published first-person account of his achievements (Imperial cult.
The Augustalia, abbreviated as AVG, appears on calendars in large, capital letters like some of the oldest festivals for deities of Rome's archaic religion. It occurs between the
Fontinalia (October 13), both of great antiquity.[6]
See also
- Imperial cult (ancient Rome)
- Sodales Augustales
References
- ^ Scheid (2009), p. 288.
- ^ a b Scheid (2009), pp. 288–289.
- ^ Scheid (2009), p. 289.
- ^ Peter Michael Swan, The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History Books 55–56 (9 B.C.–A.D. 14) (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 297–298, 36.
- ^ Res Gestae 11.
- ^ Peter Thonemann, "The Tragic King: Demetrios Poliorketes and the City of Athens," in Imaginary Kings: Royal Images in the Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome (Franz Steiner, 2005), p. 85.
- Scheid, John (2009). "To Honour the Princeps and Venerate the Gods: Public Cult, Neighbourhood Cults, and Imperial Cult in Augustan Rome". Augustus. Translated by Jonathan Edmondson. Edinburgh University Press.