Basileia
Les Cesars, les rois d'Orient et les Mages
by Jean Gage
Paperback (Published)
(June 2011)
ISBN: 9782251328867
5.31 x 8.31 inches
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L’influence des mystiques et des astrologues, notamment orientaux, sur la cour imperiale et le Prince
From Augustus (63 BC) to Constantine (AD 272-337), Roman emperors constantly strove to legitimise their ambiguous power through a form of supernatural consecration. Remarkable continuity can be observed from Apollo – the patron saint of Octavius and of the neopythagoreans – to Aurelian’s Invincible Sun, and even to Constantine’s radiating Horns . A power endowed with something monstrous and illegal (at least when compared to traditional institutions and human rights) always needs to be justified on the grounds of divine right. The Imperial religion, with its political allegories and apotheosis-based rites, is not solely to blame with regard to this issue, which has turned out to be the most critical one to consider in attempting to fathom the reason behind the conduct of the Caesars – whether good or bad, mad or wise. In these seven chapters abounding with theories and fruitful hypotheses (regardless of whether or not all readers will instantly agree with them), Jean Gage shows that the princes – whether heirs or rulers – called upon the realms of magic and astrology to garner the prestigious crowns of a true basileia.
Avant-propos
Chapitre I. ? Le triomphe des Germanicus et les secrets astrologiques de Caligula
Chapitre II. ? De Thrasyllus a Balbillus: Tibere contre les rois
L'astrologie royale au service de Neron
Chapitre III. ? Vespasien entre le Serapeum d'Alexandrie et les intrigues de Commagene
Chapitre IV. ? Trajan en Syrie et l'oracle d'Heliopolis
Chapitre V. ? Horoscopes imperiaux et themes astraux d'Alexandre
Chapitre VI. ? Heliopemptos : les propagandes oraculaires en Orient vers le milieu du IIIe siecle: l'attente du Nouvel Alexandre ou le theme d'un retour de Neron?
Chapitre VII. ? Les pretres solaires au IIIe siecle ap. J.-C.
la place des Mages dans les mysteres de Mithra
Conclusion: Mages de l'Empire romain et mages faillis denonces par les chefs du clerge perse sassanide
Index general
Index des empereurs, rois ou dynasties
Index des auteurs anciens et des principaux textes cites
Table des illustrations
- By (author) Jean Gage
Other Titles in this Series
La Jeunesse dans la litterature
La jeunesse dans la litterature et les institutions de la Rome republicaine.
Les Romains et la loi
Recherches sur les rapports de la philosophie grecque et de la tradition romaine a la fin de la Republique
Provocation et verite
Forme et sens des paradoxes stoiciens dans la poesie latine, chez Lucilius, Horace, Lucain et Perse
Volume 76
Voir la philosophie. Les representations de la philosophie a Rome
Rhetorique et philosophie, de Ciceron a Marc Aurele
Volume 71
Pour la beaute du jeu
La construction des personnages dans la comedie romaine (Plaute, Terence)
Volume 75
Incestus et prohibitae nuptiae. L’inceste a Rome
Conception romaine de l'inceste et histoire des prohibitions matrimoniales pour cause de parente dans la Rome antique
L’Abeille dans l’ambre.
Celebration de l'epigramme de l'epoque alexandrine a la fin de la Renaissance.
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