The presence of a Hellenised Diana at Nemi should be related to the presence of the cult in Campania, as Diana Tifatina was appelled Trivia in an imperial age inscription which mentions a flamen Virbialis dedicated by eques C. Octavius Verus.

Domitian also revived the practice of the imperial cult, which had fallen somewhat out of use under Vespasian.

Later the imperial cult of Genghis Khan ( centered on the eight white gers and nine white banners in Ordos ) grew into a highly organized indigenous religion with Tengriist scriptures in the Mongolian script.

The theologians of civil theology are " the people ", asking how the gods relate to daily life and the state ( imperial cult ).

For example, Hamburg's memorial, unveiled in 1906, is considered one of the greatest expressions of imperial Germany's Bismarck cult and an important development in the history of German memorial art.

This was further solidified as the status quo following the installation of the Roman imperial cult of deification of sitting emperors, and Roman pluralism was not officially extended to Abrahamic monotheistic religions until Christianity ( which had been previously branded an atheistic religion by the state ) became the de facto official religion of the empire.

In addition to the normal government of the settlement, there were two mayors ( magistri ), and a six member college ( seviri Augustales ), which was entrusted with supporting the imperial cult.

Practice of the imperial cult was revived by Titus, though apparently it met with some difficulty as Vespasian was not deified until six months after his death.

File: Antinous imperial cult Louvre Ma1781. jpg | Antinous as a priest of the imperial cult ( Louvre )

History shows that the early church especially in Rome, was influenced by pagan rituals and beliefs from the Roman imperial cult, Hellenistic philosophy, notably Neoplatonism, and Gnosticism.

The imperial cult in the Latin West: studies in the ruler cult of the western provinces of the Roman Empire.

Imperial China ( see Mandate of Heaven ), ancient Egypt, Japan, the Inca, the Aztecs, Tibet, Thailand, and the Roman Empire ( see imperial cult ) are especially noted for redefining monarchs as god-kings.

The imperial cult, the worship of the Roman emperor, was a very common practice throughout the Decapolis and was one of the features that linked the different cities.

The Roman civil religion later became centered on the person of the Emperor through the imperial cult, the worship of the genius of the Emperor.

Jade was used for the finest objects and cult figures, and for grave furnishings for high-ranking members of the imperial family.

Late Antiquity saw the rise of Christianity under Constantine I, finally ousting the Roman imperial cult with the Theodosian decrees of 393.

* 117 – 138 CE: Under Emperor Hadrian, Tripolis was granted the right of asylum and assigned a naval command ; it became an important religious center with a temple for imperial cult ; from numismatic evidence it must have had temples dedicated to Astarte, the Dioscuri and Zeus Haghios.

Many of the monuments on Mount Nemrud are ruins of the imperial cult of Commagene.

The Roman authorities persecuted it because, like Judaism, its monotheistic teachings were fundamentally foreign to the polytheistic traditions of the ancient world and a challenge to the imperial cult.

The upper-class did not always take part in the imperial cult, and some privately ridiculed the apotheosis of inept and feeble emperors, as in the satire The Pumpkinification of ( the Divine ) Claudius, usually attributed to Seneca.

The notion of philosophy as Queen Bee may fit well with authoritarian modes of political ideology, but it has been noted that the price of such an imperial notion of philosophy is the frustration and flagellation of the social sciences.

One is an imperial London stockbroker called Jerebohm.

The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U. S. customary systems.

Also, supporters of this view would characterize Luke ’ s portrayal of the Roman Empire as positive because they believe Luke “ glosses over negative aspects of the empire and presents imperial power positively .” For example, when Paul is before the council defending himself, Paul says that he is “ on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead ” ( Acts 23: 6 ).

A coin by a contender for the imperial throne, Pacatianus, explicitly states " Year one thousand and first ", which is an indication that the citizens of the Empire had a sense of the beginning of a new era, a Saeculum Novum.

Anthemios presented the Gospel to Emperor Zeno at Constantinople and received from him the privileges of the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus, that is, the purple cloak which the Greek Archbishop of Cyprus wears at festivals of the church, the imperial sceptre and the red ink with which he affixes his signature.

The House of Bonaparte is an imperial and royal European dynasty founded by Napoleon I of France in 1804, a French military leader who rose to notability out of the French Revolution and transformed the French Republic into the First French Empire within five years of his coup d ' état.

He found the military situation so dire that he is said at first to have contemplated withdrawing the imperial capital to Carthage, but relented after the people of Constantinople begged him to stay.

: And the One Hundred and Fifty most religious Bishops, actuated by the same consideration, gave equal privileges ( ἴσα πρεσβεῖα ) to the most holy throne of New Rome, justly judging that the city which is honoured with the Sovereignty and the Senate and enjoys equal privileges with the old imperial Rome, should in ecclesiastical matters also be magnified as she is, and rank next after her.

Accordingly, “ moved by the same purposes ” the fathers “ apportioned equal prerogatives to the most holy see of new Rome ” because “ the city which is honored by the imperial power and senate and enjoying privileges equaling older imperial Rome should also be elevated to her level in ecclesiastical affairs and take second place after her .” The framework for allocating ecclesiastical authority advocated by the council fathers mirrored the allocation of imperial authority in the later period of the Roman Empire.

The Han imperial library is said to contain 82 volumes of descriptions of all those systems ( Han Shu 30, 1765-6 ), now mostly lost.

Colonialism is based on an imperial outlook, thereby creating a consequential relationship.

He eventually made his way to northern Italy and made an imperial government, but it is not known whether he visited the city of Rome at this time.

There is a contemporary issue of coins suggestive of an imperial adventus ( arrival ) for the city, but some modern historians state that Diocletian avoided the city, and that he did so on principle, as the city and its Senate were no longer politically relevant to the affairs of the Empire and needed to be taught as much.

The history of the empire before the Tetrarchy is portrayed as a time of civil war, savage despotism, and imperial collapse.

Likewise, Jesus Christ proclaims in the Gospel of Matthew that one should " Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's "; that is at first, literally, the payment of taxes as binding those who use the imperial currency, but more widely interpreted as the offer of obedience and submission to the proclaimed worldly king () in matters not contrary to conscience.

In English, the term mikado ( 御門 or 帝 or みかど ), literally meaning " the honorable gate " ( i. e. the gate of the imperial place, which indicates the person who lives in and possesses the place ), was once used ( as in The Mikado, a 19th century operetta ), but this term is now obsolete.

In the case of the imperial family, it is still considered inappropriate to use the given name.

* Women were allowed to succeed ( but there existed no known children of theirs whose father did not also happen to be an agnate of the imperial house, thus there is neither a precedent that a child of an imperial woman with a non-imperial man could inherit, nor a precedent forbidding it for children of empresses ).

An emperor ( through Old French empereor from Latin imperator ) is a ( male ) monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm.

Alaric displayed similar wisdom in political affairs by appointing a commission to prepare an abstract of the Roman laws and imperial decrees, which would form the authoritative code for his Roman subjects.

In the Roman tradition a large variety in the meaning and importance of the imperial form of monarchy developed: in intention it was always the highest office, but it could as well fall down to a redundant title for nobility that had never been near to the " Empire " they were supposed to be reigning.

In its final simplified form, the Serbian imperial title read " Emperor of Serbs and Greeks " ( цар Срба и Грка in modern Serbian ).

Initially used mainly for war services, this new class of people would form the basis for the later knights, another basis of imperial power.

After a last brief reunification ( 884 – 887 ), the imperial title ceased to be held in the western realm, which was to form the basis of the future French kingdom.

* 1806 – Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.

The Berber dynasties ( Almoravids, Almohads, Marinids and Wattasids ) gave the Berber people some measure of collective identity and political unity under a native regime for the first time in their history, and they created the idea of an " imperial Maghrib " under Berber aegis that survived in some form from dynasty to dynasty.

At the same time, Innocent encouraged the cities in Tuscany to form a league, called the League of San Genesio against German imperial interests in Italy, and they placed themselves under Innocent ’ s protection.

This form of nationalism arose in reaction to dynastic or imperial hegemony, which assessed the legitimacy of the state from the " top down ", emanating from a monarch or other authority, which justified its existence.

The Weimar Republic ( ) is the name given by historians to the federal republic and parliamentary representative democracy established in 1919 in Germany to replace the imperial form of government.

Murasaki's poems were published in 1206 by Fujiwara Teika, in what Mulhern believes to be the collection that is closest to the original form ; at around the same time Teika included a selection of Murasaki's works in an imperial anthology, New Collections of Ancient and Modern Times.

Hegemony (,, ;, “ leadership ”, “ rule ”) is an indirect form of government of imperial dominance in which the hegemon ( leader state ) rules geopolitically sub-ordinate states by the implied means of power, the threat of the threat, rather than by direct military force.

During the Ottoman suzerainty, and especially during the Phanariot régime, the title of Prince became an administrative function within the imperial Ottoman hierarchy, and thus the ultimate form of boyardness.

In imperial China, clerks used an abbreviated, highly cursive form of Chinese characters to record court proceedings and criminal confessions.

While the imposition of only one town form regardless of region could be seen as an imposition of imperial authority, there is no doubting the practical reasoning behind the formation of the Roman grid.

An imperial immediacy ( German: Reichsfreiheit or Reichsunmittelbarkeit ) which was a privileged feudal and political status, a form of statehood, which a city, religious entity or feudal principality of minor lordship could attain within the Holy Roman Empire.

Inscriptions in Roman Britain bearing his name were partially erased suggesting some form of imperial displeasure during this role.

Emperor Wu of Han started an early form of the imperial examinations, transitioning from inheritance and patronage to merit, in which local officials would select candidates to take part in an examination of the Confucian classics.

Muslim royalty built palatial pleasure domes in continuation of the Roman and Persian imperial models, although many have not survived, and domed mausoleums from Merv to India developed the form.

Just as the second forms the basis for other units of time, the light-second can form the basis for other units of length, ranging from the light-nanosecond ( just under one U. S. or imperial foot ) to the light-minute, light-hour and light-day, which are sometimes used in popular science publications.

The ounce is used in a number of different systems, including various systems of mass that form part of the imperial and United States customary systems.

In imperial Persia, Khan ( female form Khanum ) was the title of a nobleman, higher than Beg ( or bey ) and usually used after the given name.

However, the concept of the imperial person as " sacred " carried over, in a Christianized form, into the Byzantine Empire.

The Exarchates were a response to weakening imperial authority in the provinces and were part of the overall process of unification of civil and military offices, initiated in early form by Justinian I, which would lead eventually to the creation of the Theme system by Emperor Heraclius.