Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-wxhwt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-13T15:35:06.311Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Statue of Victory at Colchester

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

C.J. Simpson
C.J. Simpson
Affiliation:
Wilfrid Laurier University
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Notes
Information
Britannia , Volume 27 , November 1996 , pp. 386 - 387
Copyright
Copyright © Dr C.J. Simpson 1996. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

281 Fishwick, D., Britannia iii (1972), 164–81CrossRefGoogle Scholar; xxii (1991), 137–41; xxvi (1995), 11–27 (at 23f.) Simpson, C.J., Britannia xxiv (1993), 1–6.CrossRefGoogle Scholar What was ‘heretical’ in 1972 (181) appears to be canonical in 1995. Fishwick's own ‘caution against dogmatism’ is well advised (1995, 27).

282 Fishwick, op. cit. (note 281, 1991), 141; idem, (note 281, 1995), 23f. Also, D. Fishwick, The Imperial Cult in the Latin West II.2 (1987), 195–218, at 200, n. 33.

283 Audin, A. and Quoniam, P., ‘Victoires et colonnes de l'autel fédéral de Trois Gaules: données nouvelles,’ Gallia xx (1962), 103–16CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at io8f.; H. Mattingly, BMCRE 1 (1923), No. 237f., 196, pl. 37.10.

284 cf. the ‘confidence’ Syme would have us place in Tacitus’ narrative of the rebellion. R. Syme, Tacitus (1958), 764.

285 Jackson, J., Tacitus IV (1937), 159.Google Scholar

286 S. Weinstock, RE II.8a (1958), col. 2501–42, at 2505. Cf. Di o VIII.28. That the report ha s been preserved by a twelfth-century Byzantine soldier-cum-monk does not invalidate the probability that the story was known to Roman readers in Tacitus’ day. The story of the Statue of Victory is the subject of a recent discussion in T.P. Wiseman, Remus. A Roman Myth (1995), 118–25.

287 Witness the supplication to Victory in April 43 B.C. and the dedication of the Statue and Altar of Victory in the Senate House in August 29 B.C. (Ehrenberg, V. and Jones, A.H.M., Documents Illustrating the Reigns of Augustus and Tiberius1 (1952) 48, 52Google Scholar; Dio LI.22.1). See, also, Weinstock, op. cit. (n. 286), col. 2501; K. Latte, Römische Religionsgeschichte (1967), 234f. For Victories as portents, see also Livy XXVI.23.4; Suet., Galba X.4.

288 Tacitus: ‘for no apparent reason'; Zonaras: ‘of its own accord’.

289 Fiswick, op. cit. (note 281, 1995), 25.

290 S.R.F. Price, Rituals and Power. The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor (1984), 42ff., 46.