{"id":278678,"date":"2022-11-29T20:53:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T09:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/?p=278678"},"modified":"2023-04-27T11:10:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T01:10:37","slug":"the-emperor-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%a8%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b7%d9%88%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d9%84%d9%87\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emperor God"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Emperor God\u2026 the reason for the name<\/h2>\n\n\n
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The Roman Empire in the year 117 AD<\/figcaption><\/figure>

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Why was the emperor called a god?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

During the Roman Republic, the deification of rulers was unthinkable, but after the expansion eastward and the rise of Roman Empire<\/a> After Octavian became Augustus Caesar, the situation changed. The same thing had happened previously with the Greeks. Before Alexander the Great\u2019s expansions towards the East, the idea of deifying the ruler was not present according to the prevailing systems of government. But after Alexander and throughout the entire Hellenistic period, the earth was teeming with god-rulers. Perhaps the origin of that idea was Eastern, perhaps Egyptian, perhaps Iraqi, and perhaps others.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Here we present a silver coin of the tetradrachm category struck in the city of Byzantium, the city whose geography has made it one of the cities whose name has changed the most throughout history, as it is Byzantium, Constantinople, and Istanbul. This coin was struck at the beginning of the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius, but it bears the faces of his two deified parents.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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On the front we see a profile portrait of the former emperor Augustus Caesar, and in the margin is written in Greek.<\/div>\n
\u03a3\u0395\u0392\u0391\u03a3\u03a4\u039f\u03a3 \u0398\u0395\u039f\u03a3<\/div>\n
It means "divine emperor".\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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On the back we see a profile portrait of the former Empress Livia, with Greek writing in the margin.<\/div>\n
\u0398\u0395\u0391 \u03a3\u0395\u0392\u0391\u03a3\u03a4\u0391<\/div>\n
It means "the goddess empress"\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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As we can see below, there are three letters \u0392\u03a5\u0396, which is an abbreviation of the city's name in Greek, \u201c\u0392\u03a5\u0396\u0391\u039d\u03a4\u0399\u039f\u039d\u201d.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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During the Roman Empire, this Eastern belief would become firmly established, and many coins would be minted commemorating former emperors as gods, thus documenting an important aspect of the cultures, beliefs, and systems of that period in history\u2026<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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* The item pictured is on display in British Museum<\/a> London<\/div>\n
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