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" a. d. viiii Kalendas Octobres, dies natalis Augusti. Some Considerations on the Astronomical Orientation of Roman Cologne and the Imperial Cult "
David Espinosa-Espinosa, A. César González-García

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1079241
Doc. No	:	LA122870
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685276-12341479‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	A. César González-García
	:	David Espinosa-Espinosa
Title & Author	:	a. d. viiii Kalendas Octobres, dies natalis Augusti. Some Considerations on the Astronomical Orientation of Roman Cologne and the Imperial Cult [Article]\ David Espinosa-Espinosa, A. César González-García
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Numen
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	64/5-6
Page No	:	545–567
Abstract	:	A key factor in planning and orienting towns in the Roman world, and in particular in Augustan towns, was cosmology. The application of cosmological criteria in these towns, associated with specific political and religious principles of the principate of Augustus, has been already identified in Italia, Gallia, and Hispania. In this article we examine the orientation of the Roman town of Ara Ubiorum (present day Cologne) that could be related with the dies natalis Augusti. Based on these results, such a relation could have been deliberately sought by Roman and Ubian authorities to connect the newly founded town, where there was an ara of the Imperial cult probably consecrated to Rome and Augustus, with Augustus, who was identified with Apollo-Sol.
Descriptor	:	Apollo-Sol
Descriptor	:	Augustus
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	cosmology
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	Imperial cult
Descriptor	:	orientation
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religion in Antiquity
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Roman Cologne
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685276-12341479‬