CLAS 1120 Lecture 16: Lecture 16

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Classics
• Course: CLAS 1120
• Professor: Rife

Document Summary

Special relationship with the divine gives them extraordinary status with others. Tend to attract disciples: myths about reproduction with divine; offspring of demigods, model of rulers being divine persists in the hellenistic kingdoms, and echoes in the idea that. Son of ammon for his egyptian subjects emperors are placed as gods in their deaths. Eventually these individuals become models for behavior and conduits of the divine. Not extraordinary by birth usually, but have a moment of clarity or an epiphany (paul"s encounter with god on his road to damascus), and these individuals gain status that is outside of the roman imperial framework. Do not always recognize the power of roman authority, causing them to be looked at by roman authority with great suspicion (i. e. jesus christ himself) Emergence of holy figures, and eventually develops into an elaborate hierarchy among different sects. Reflects an interest in collecting legendary information, and mythologizes apollonius.