The statue of Victory on a coin issued under Augustus, matching its description by Prudentius.[1]
The Altar of Victory (Latin: Ara Victoriae) was located in the Roman Senate House (the Curia) and bore a gold statue of the goddess Victory. The altar was established by Octavian (later Augustus) in 29 BC to commemorate the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium.
The AltarofVictory (Latin: Ara Victoriae) was located in the Roman Senate House (the Curia) and bore a gold statue of the goddess Victory. The altar was...
VictoryAltar (Korean: 승리제단; RR: Seungnijedan; MR: Sŭngnijedan) is a South Korean religious movement that has often been characterized as a cult. The...
The Augsburg VictoryAltar (German: Augsburger Siegesaltar) is the name given to a Roman altarof the victory goddess Victoria, which was set up on the...
Theodosius refused to restore the AltarofVictory in the Senate House, as requested by pagan Senators. In 392 he became emperor of the whole empire (the last...
the AltarofVictory and the income of the temple priests and Vestal Virgins. Between 382 and 384, there was yet another dispute over the Altarof Victory...
against Emperor Gratian's order to remove the AltarofVictory from the curia, the principal meeting place of the Roman Senate in the Forum Romanum. Two...
Edict of Thessalonica, refusing the office of pontifex maximus, and removing the AltarofVictory from the Roman Senate's Curia Julia. The city of Cularo...
to any state sponsorship of pagan cults. When Gratian ordered the AltarofVictory to be removed, it roused the aristocracy of Rome to send a delegation...
The Pergamon Altar (Ancient Greek: Βωμός τῆς Περγάμου) was a monumental construction built during the reign of the Ancient Greek King Eumenes II in the...
stronghold of the traditional Roman religion in the face of the spreading Christianity, and several times attempted to facilitate the return of the Altarof Victory...
rituals of pagan Rome to which Symmachus had appealed. While Ambrose participated in the campaign against the reinstatement ofAltarofVictory, he admitted...
the bronze rostra (rams) taken from the captured warships of Antony's fleet. AltarofVictory Antony and Cleopatra Nicopolis Lendering, Jona (10 October...
second king of Rome. In the later Roman Empire, the maintenance of the AltarofVictory in the Curia took on a similar symbolic value for those such as...
Saxon leader Hadugato's victory over the Thuringians in 531. Widukind says the Saxons set up an altar to their god ofvictory, whose body they depicted...
'the Divine Memory of Valentinian'. The death of Gratian in 383, brought religious conflict to the fore again. The AltarofVictory was an important symbol...
the third, written in order to request the restoration of the AltarofVictory; in the last part of his life he dedicated himself to philology. Quintus Aurelius...
340 – c. 402), Roman senator who attempted to have the altarofAltarofVictory restored Hypatia of Alexandria, neoplatonist philosopher, mathematician...
of paganism; he ordered the closing of all pagan temples, forbade pagan sacrifices under pain of death, and removed the traditional AltarofVictory from...
influence of Ambrose, Gratian refused to wear the insignia of the pontifex maximus as unbefitting a Christian, removed the AltarofVictory from the Senate...
office of pontifex maximus, and against the protests of the Senate, removed the altarofVictory from the Senate house and began the disestablishment of the...
art of government both by temperament and by training", removed the AltarofVictory from the Senate House. He also rejected the pagan title of Pontifex...
worshipping of idols. Pagan temples were shut down, and the AltarofVictory was removed from the Senate meeting house. There were also frequent episodes of ordinary...
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