Festividad y legitimación política: Domiciano y el Agón Capitolino

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2017.2747

Keywords:

Domitian, Iuppiter, agon Capitolinus, politic legitimacy

Abstract

When it comes to analyze the religious justification of Domitian we must bear in mind the great importance attached to the agon Capitolinus by its creator. The legitimacy of the Flavian dynasty was mainly based on the election of the emperor by Iuppiter Optimus Maximus, main divinity of the roman pantheon, from the days of Vespasian, who found himself without any dynastic link with the Julio-Claudians after his victory over Vitellius in 69 AD. Through the creation of the agon Capitolinus, Domitian displayed the especial link between Iuppiter and the emperor, spending great sums of money in the building of new structures, in order to host such celebration.

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Published

2017-10-05

Issue

No. 13 (2015)

Section

Monographic

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Festividad y legitimación política: Domiciano y el Agón Capitolino. (2017). ARYS, 13, 127-150. https://doi.org/10.20318/arys.2017.2747