--- Gregory Geboski <greg at mail.unionwebservices.com> wrote: Suetonius, e.g., always stopped his witty short biographies of the Caesars dead in their tracks and stuck in pages of superstitious blather about how such-and-such an omen was seen before this-or-that momentous event, to a point far beyond any normal propaganda need. And whatever Augustus's reasons for embracing the god thing, subsequent Caesars seemed to go out of the way to follow suit, again far beyond any vulgar propaganda need; it seemed on some (bizarre) level personally meaningful.
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I was thinking of Stoicism being practically the state religion of the Empire, and Stoicism was mono- and pan- (as opposed to poli-) theistic, and rationalist.
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