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The Cult Dossier · No. 009 · Political / Terror
The Roman Imperial Cult
Cult of the Divine Emperors
42 BCE – 4th c. CE · Roman Empire, strongest in the eastern provinces
I. ANTIQUITY — THE MYSTERY CULTS
Political religion — a loyalty test in ritual form
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 42 BCE The Senate deifies Julius Caesar — DIVUS IULIUS.
- 29 BCE First temples to Roma and Augustus at Pergamon and Nicomedia.
- 40 CE Caligula orders his statue erected in the Temple at Jerusalem; the governor Petronius stalls until Caligula's assassination in 41 prevents a Jewish revolt.
- 64–68 CE Neronian persecution of Christians at Rome.
- 112 CE Pliny the Younger writes to Trajan from Bithynia describing the test: accused Christians must invoke the gods, offer to the emperor's image, and curse Christ.
- 249–251 CE Decian persecution — universal sacrifice ordered; libelli (certificates of sacrifice) issued.
- 303–313 CE Diocletianic Great Persecution, the last and most severe.
- 313 CE Edict of Milan ends compulsory imperial sacrifice for Christians.
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