CLASSIC 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Palatine Hill, Mural Crown, Mithraism
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Ovid and the gods in the art of love says that gods are no more than a convenience. Augustus and the gods sought to revive ancient traditions and rituals, boats that he restored 82 temples and shrines. Philosophy intellectuals turned to this to understand them. Stars and foreign cults appealed to the people. Astronomy (law of the stars), astrology (telling of the stars) Astral calculations: origins very ancient and eastern (source of wisdom and divine power) If believed too much into the stars, they were thought to be silly and superstitious. Antikythera mechanism first discovered in 1901 off island of antikythera between. Bronze and iron machine with 37 original gears that calculated the exact positions of the sun, moons, stars, and planets. Shows how much science, math, and engineering went into these things. Tiberius and thrasyllus island of rhodes. Tiberius was known for having an astrologer with him all the time.
