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The pontifex maximus (Latin for "supreme pontiff") was the chief high priest of the College of Pontiffs (Collegium Pontificum) in ancient Rome. This was...
List of pontifices maximi (redirect from List of Roman Republican holders of the role of pontifex maximus)The pontifex maximus was the chief priest of the ancient Roman religion, and head of the Collegium Pontificum ("College of Pontiffs"). According to legend...- to: Circus Maximus (disambiguation) Pontifex maximus, the highest priest of the College of Pontiffs in ancient Rome Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus...
- College of Pontiffs (redirect from Pontifex minor)highest-ranking priests of the state religion. The college consisted of the pontifex maximus and the other pontifices, the rex sacrorum, the fifteen flamens, and...
In 63 BC, Caesar stood for the praetorship and also for the post of pontifex maximus, who was the head of the College of Pontiffs and the highest ranking...- was elected Pontifex Maximus (chief priest of Rome), as had been his father and uncle before him. He was the first Roman Pontifex Maximus to be murdered...
vestal but chosen and governed by Rome's leading male priest, the Pontifex maximus; in the Imperial era, this meant the emperor. Vesta's acolytes vowed...
previously been a close ally of Julius Caesar. He was also the last pontifex maximus before the Roman Empire, and (presumably) the last interrex and magister...
Roman state, the pontifex maximus reside in a domus publicus ("publicly owned house"). After assuming the office of pontifex maximus in 12 BC, Augustus...- plebeian tribune in 133 BC. He was consul in 138 BC and served as pontifex maximus, from possibly 141 through to his death in 132 BC. Nasica's first known...
- plebs in 141 BC and praetor in 136 BC. He also held the position of pontifex maximus for sixteen years after his consulship. He died around 115 BC. Scaevola...
Pontifex Ecclesiae Universalis). He is also commonly called the supreme pontiff or the sovereign pontiff (Latin: summus pontifex). Pontifex Maximus,...
raised families, and led politically active lives. Julius Caesar became pontifex maximus before he was elected consul. The augurs read the will of the gods...
(2007). Pontifex. "Pontifex Maximus". LacusCurtius. "Gratian". Encyclopædia Britannica. 3 February 2008. Lendering, Jona. "Pontifex Maximus". Livius...
Valentinian I's son and successor Gratian declined to wear the mantle of Pontifex Maximus, and in 382 he rescinded the rights of pagan priests and removed the...- priesthood reserved for patricians. Although in the historical era, the pontifex maximus was the head of Roman state religion, Festus says that in the ranking...
("first one") alongside other Republican titles, notably consul and pontifex maximus. The legitimacy of an emperor's rule depended on his control of the...- Gallic wars. The same year, Caesar ran for election to the post of Pontifex Maximus, chief priest of the Roman state religion, after the death of Quintus...
surrendered to Octavian and was permitted to retain the office of pontifex maximus (head of the college of priests) but was ejected from the Triumvirate...
Labicana Augustus is a sculpture of the Roman emperor Augustus as Pontifex Maximus, with his head veiled for a sacrifice. The statue is dated as having...
- of religion. Under the republic they emerge into prominence under a pontifex maximus, who took over the king's duties as chief administrator of religious
- Caesar and the first Roman Emperor. He also became a pontiff and later Pontifex Maximus. Si sine uxore pati possemus, Quirites, omnes ea molestia careremus;
- surrendered to Octavian and was permitted to retain the office of pontifex maximus (head of the college of priests), but was ejected from the Triumvirate