Originally posted by sh76I assume its just speculation and artistic license. He doesn't appear to have left any writings supporting such an interpretation; he did become the pontifex maximus the head of the Roman State religion in 12 BC:
That's why I was surprised by that assertion and wondered if anyone had more info on it.
The pontifex maximus was responsible for a large collection of omens (annales maximi); every year, he wrote down the celestial and other signs, and added the events that had followed the omens, so that future generation would be able to better understand the divine will.
http://www.livius.org/pn-po/pontifex/maximus.html
Obviously, a deist would not find omens of any particular use ("divine will" does not affect events after the Creation in standard Deist thought).
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Originally posted by sh76Is this a mystery? Like every emperor (and most posters on this site) he believed in one God - himself. Question settled.
as implied on the HBO series "Rome"?
Google isn't very helpful in this regard and I'm wondering if anyone has any knowledge on this.
Thanks.
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One of my favorite books! (And I just finished a fascinating book on Flat Earth belief.)
Have you seen the movie "Agora"?
Seriously tho - if you want a real answer then think about how history is constructed. Harder to prove thoughts than actions. I've never seen a citation from sources that indicates he was a monotheist (other than his assertion to the Senate that he was the "Son of God."đ
Originally posted by sh76I'd guess him to be an nonreligious person who knew which way the wind blew. Didn't Virgil's Aeneid impute to him a divine ancestry?
as implied on the HBO series "Rome"?
Google isn't very helpful in this regard and I'm wondering if anyone has any knowledge on this.
Thanks.
