loathing shown by the Senatorial class do not mean that the cult was widespread and embedded only in the lowest classes of Roman society, as is explained by the parallel success among the aristocratic exponents
the Gemma Augustea. Enthroned beside Roma, Augustus is surrounded by the imagery of victory. The lower register is filled with bound captives with soldiers erecting a tropaion , and in the upper register
12 ionische Städte, darunter so bedeutende wie Milet, Ephesos und Priene, waren in archaischer und klassischer Zeit im "Panionischen Bund" vereint und begingen in ihrem Heiligtum Panionion den Kult de