Początki kultu wodzów i władzy charyzmatycznej w Rzymie w okresie późnej republiki
The Beginnings of Cult of Military Leaders and Charismatic Power in Rome during the Late Republic

Summary/Abstract: In 1985 “Athenaeum” published the article by Maria Jaczynowska La genesi repubblicana del culto imperiale. Da Scipione l’Africano a Giulio Cesare, in which the author analyzed the origin of the cult of Roman military leaders, linking it with the development of the institution of triumph and imperial ideology as well as Hellenistic influences. Military victories of Roman military leaders deserved special honors or even certain forms of “worship” to which Hellenistic rulers were entitled as deities. A kind of distinguishing feature of the leaders were also the attributes that made up their charisma.

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