{"id":1139,"date":"2024-07-09T16:08:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T16:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/processionsandempire\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2024-08-21T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T07:56:08","slug":"letter-of-marcus-aurelius-and-commodus-to-the-athenian-gerousia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/processionsandempire\/letter-of-marcus-aurelius-and-commodus-to-the-athenian-gerousia-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus to the Athenian Gerous\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>TITLE<\/strong><br>Letter of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus to the Athenian Gerous\u00eda\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>DATE<\/strong><br>178-179, 182-183 CE\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>TEXT<\/strong><br>The Packard Humanities Institute (see SEG 21, 509; IG II\u00b2 1108).\u00a0<br><br>[57] \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03b5\u0323\u1fd6\u0323\u03c3\u0323\u03b8\u03b5 v \u03c4\u1f70\u03c2 \u03bc\u1f72\u03bd \u03bf\u1f56\u03bd \u03b5\u1f30\u03ba\u03cc\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2 \u1f21\u03bc\u1ff6\u03bd \u03c4\u2019 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 [\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f21\u03bc\u1ff6\u03bd \u03b3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9\u03ba\u1ff6]\u03bd \u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03ae\u03c3\u03b1\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b2\u03b5\u03b2\u03bf\u03cd\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5 \u03c7[\u03c1\u03c5\u03c3\u1fb6\u03c2 \u1f22 \u1f00\u03c1\u03b3\u03c5\u03c1\u1fb6\u03c2, \u1f24]\u00a0<br>[58] \u03c4\u03b5 \u03bc\u03ac\u03bb\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u2019 \u1f10[\u03c0]\u1f76 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f21\u03bc\u03b5[\u03c4]\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b3\u03bd\u03ce\u03bc\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b9\u03ad\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 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<em>vacat\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em> [\u03b5\u1f50\u03c4\u03c5]\u03c7\u03b5\u1fd6\u03c4\u03b5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>vacat<\/em>\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>TRANSLATION<\/strong><br>Oliver 1941, 116.\u00a0<br><br>Then in regard to the images which you have wanted to make of ourselves and of our consorts in gold or silver, or best of all, if understanding from our own proposal, you are willing to content yourselves with images of bronze, it is clear that you will make statues such as the many more commonly call <em>protomai<\/em> (busts), and you will execute them on a moderate scale, the four of equal size, so that it will be easy on your holidays at every gathering to transport them wherever you may wish on every occasion, as for example to the popular assemblies. And as for the bases, we permit the placing of our names upon these because of your good will toward us, for we gladly accept such honors but on all occasions we avoid the divine and those which seem to provoke envy. Therefore, also now we gratefully instruct you to make only bronze images, that this would be more pleasing to us. As for the other persons, Caelius Quadratus our procurator, who is being instructed by them, will inform you of their decision.\u00a0\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/strong><br>Dittenberger, W. (1878-1882). <em>IG III Inscriptiones Atticae aetatis Romanae. Parts I-II<\/em>. Berlin: Reimer, 1108 (partial edition) = IG III ad. 39a.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>Fishwick, D. (1991). <em>The Imperial Cult in the Latin West. Studies in the Ruler Cult of the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire<\/em>. Vol. II. 1. Leiden: Brill, 545.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>Kirchner, J. (1913-1940). <em>IG II\u00b2 Inscriptiones Graecae. Vol II et III. Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriors. Parts I-III<\/em>. Berlin: Reimer (partial edition) = IG II\u00b2 1108.<br>\u00a0\u00a0<br>Meritt, B. D. (1933). \u201cThe inscriptions\u201d. <em>Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens<\/em> 2(2): 149-169.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>Meritt, B. D. (1961). \u201cGreek Inscriptions\u201d. <em>Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens<\/em> 30(3): 205-292, no. 31.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>Oliver, J. H. (1941). <em>The Sacred Gerusia<\/em>. Baltimore: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 108-120, no. 24.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br>Oliver, J. H. (1961). \u201cNew Fragments of Sacred Gerusia 24 (I. G., II2, 1108<em>)\u201d. Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens<\/em> 30(4): 402-3.\u00a0<br><br>Woodhead, A. G., ed., (1965). <em>Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. 21, 509.<\/em> Amsterdam.\u00a0\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-light-gray-background-color has-light-gray-color\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TITLELetter of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus to the Athenian Gerous\u00eda\u00a0 DATE178-179, 182-183 CE\u00a0 TEXTThe Packard Humanities Institute (see SEG 21, 509; IG II\u00b2 1108).\u00a0 [57] \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03b5\u0323\u1fd6\u0323\u03c3\u0323\u03b8\u03b5 v \u03c4\u1f70\u03c2 \u03bc\u1f72\u03bd \u03bf\u1f56\u03bd \u03b5\u1f30\u03ba\u03cc\u03bd\u03b1\u03c2 \u1f21\u03bc\u1ff6\u03bd \u03c4\u2019 \u03b1\u1f50\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u03ba\u03b1\u1f76 [\u03c4\u1ff6\u03bd \u1f21\u03bc\u1ff6\u03bd \u03b3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9\u03ba\u1ff6]\u03bd \u03c0\u03bf\u03b9\u03ae\u03c3\u03b1\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9 \u03b2\u03b5\u03b2\u03bf\u03cd\u03bb\u03b7\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5 \u03c7[\u03c1\u03c5\u03c3\u1fb6\u03c2 \u1f22 \u1f00\u03c1\u03b3\u03c5\u03c1\u1fb6\u03c2, \u1f24]\u00a0[58] \u03c4\u03b5 \u03bc\u03ac\u03bb\u03b9\u03c3\u03c4\u2019 \u1f10[\u03c0]\u1f76 \u03c4\u1fc6\u03c2 \u1f21\u03bc\u03b5[\u03c4]\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1\u03c2 \u03b3\u03bd\u03ce\u03bc\u03b7\u03c2 \u03c3\u03c5\u03bd\u03b9\u03ad\u03bd\u03c4\u03b5\u03c2 \u03b2\u03bf\u03cd\u03bb\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b5 \u03c7\u03b1[\u03bb\u03ba\u03b1\u1fd6\u03c2 \u03b5\u1f30\u03ba\u03cc\u03c3\u03b9\u03bd \u1f00\u03c1\u03ba\u03b5\u1fd6]\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,6,5,7,8],"tags":[50,184,182,183,158,186,16,185,155],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-emperors-and-kings-epithets","category-performers","category-place","category-ruler","category-terms-for-procession","category-terms-for-statue-of-the-ruler","tag-athens","tag-bruttia-crispina","tag-commodus","tag-faustina","tag-marcus-aurelius","tag-186","tag-16","tag-185","tag-155","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/processionsandempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/processionsandempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/processionsandempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/processionsandempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/processionsandempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/processionsandempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/processionsandempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/processionsandempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/processionsandempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/investiga\/processionsandempire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}