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The nature of divine speech in Antiquity in the Mediterranean Basin has often been the object of scholarly analysis, especially regarding its divinatory context and questions of genre and rhetoric. The present volume not only provokes a dialogue with this past research, but seeks to respond to a problem that has received little consideration until now: the articulation of divine speech with the various forms of its representation (linguistic, literary, and material). The aim is to analyze the nature of divine speech through its materiality and the impact of the latter on the former’s definition and evolution.

Oracles. --- Gods, Roman. --- Gods, Greek. --- Gods, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Roman gods

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Comparative religion --- Antiquity --- Rome --- Gods, Roman --- Dieux romains --- Religious life and customs --- Vie religieuse --- Roman gods --- Religious life and customs. --- Rome - Religious life and customs

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Dionysia. --- Cults --- Greek drama (Satyr play) --- Orphisme --- Cultes --- Drame satirique grec --- 292.211 --- Religion Classical Greek and Roman Gods, goddesses, divinities and deities --- Cults - Greece.

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The Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (193-211 A.D.) originated from the North-African town of Lepcis Magna. His reign is seen as a time in which profound changes within Roman society became evident resulting in many provincials achieving important positions in the Roman state. The book examines this development from the perspective of a possible use of the non-Italian home and deities of the Emperor within Imperial iconographics. Important evidence for that are the native deities propagated by the Emperor. The book further discusses the relationship of Severus towards Roman gods and a possible sacralisation of the Emperor which might suggest changing attitudes towards the Emperor. The latter however has to be critically assessed and asked who was responsible for certain images. Was it the Imperial house or were it other groups? Der römische Kaiser Septimius Severus (193-211 n. Chr.) stammte aus dem nordafrikanischen Lepcis Magna. Seine Regierung wird als eine Zeit des Umbruchs charakterisiert, geprägt von einer Veränderung der römischen Gesellschaft, in die nun immer mehr Provinzialen in führende Positionen kamen und eine Verschiebung des Zentrums weg von Rom erfolgte. In dem Buch wird dieser Entwicklung aus der Perspektive der möglichen Instrumentalisierung einer nicht-italischen Heimat des Kaisers in der kaiserlichen Repräsentation nachgegangen. Wichtigstes Zeugnis dafür sind heimatliche Götter, die vom Kaiserhaus propagiert wurden. Außerdem betrachtet das Buch die religionspolitischen Schwerpunktsetzungen des Kaisers und die auf seine Person bezogenen Sakralisierungstendenzen, die auf eine möglicherweise veränderte Auffassung des Kaisertums zurückschließen lassen, wobei insbesondere zu fragen ist, ob dies auf das Kaiserhaus oder andere Gruppen zurückzuführen ist.

Religion and state --- Religion --- Gods, Roman. --- Social aspects --- Severus, Lucius Septimius, --- Rome --- History --- Religion. --- Roman gods --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Septimius Severus, --- Settimio Severo, --- Severo, Settimio, --- Septime Sévère, --- Sévère, Septime,

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Dionysia --- Dionysus (Greek deity) --- Mythology, Greek --- Orphisme --- Dionysos (Divinité grecque) --- Mythologie grecque --- Cult --- Culte --- Myth --- Dionysus --- 292.211 --- Religion Classical Greek and Roman Gods, goddesses, divinities and deities --- Dionysos (Divinité grecque) --- Cult. --- Dionysus - (Greek deity)