CLST 101 Lecture Notes - Panaetius, Epicureanism, Panegyric
22 Jun 2013
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Jerusalem"s religious ceremonies opposed any religious that was not monotheistic, and the jews did not want to worship the emperor, as after death, emperors were made divine. Jews were required to send a certain amount of gold to the temple in. There was a jewish revolt in 66-70 ad, which was stopped by titus. Varro believed that jupiter was worshipped, although called by another name, even by those who worship one god alone without any image. Pompnia graecina, who as the wife of a general, was believed to convert to. Judaism, and was accused of foreign superstition and was handed over to her husband"s judicial decision: he heard his wife"s case and reported her innocent. During the early and middle republican period romans frowned on greek"s interests in philosophic speculation. 161 bce the senate authorized the praetors to expel philosophers from.
