Roman Empire Religon Imperial Cult

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death of representative institutions. Augustus himself never did away with these institutions, he was consul, tribune, chief priest of the civic religion and the public censor.

After Augustus died, Roman had several emperors but most of them died in early age until the 3rd century, it could be written as the history of a political mass that a good leader could not be found to fill the Roman office of emperor. Between 211 and 300, there were more than seventy emperors who competed for control of the Imperial office. Meanwhile, lots of cities declared their independence from Rome, slaves rebelled on the greatest states and civic responsibility disappeared. Finally, The Roman Empire was divided into East and West.

Roman religion was best described as Roman superstition. It was simply a useful tool for keeping the masses under control. It affected the unity of citizens in Roman whatever nationality was, they were Romans. Roman religion was polytheistic well-known as Olympian gods, ...

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