Talk:Flamen Dialis
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Caesar was surely appointed Pontifex Maximus not Flamen Dialis; the lifetime restrictions on the Dialis would have made his subsequent career impossible. So removed.
Ceasar was appointed Flamen Dialis at an early age and later under Cornelius Sulla was removed from that position on the condition that no other Flamen Dialis be appointed until after his death. Ceasar was VOTED in as Pontifex Maximus, not appointed.
The information I added was from the page http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Flamen.html, which is stated to be in the public domain. Burschik 10:45, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- In such a case, with wholesale appropriation of unreedited text, an "External link' might be considered a minimal courtesy. --Wetman 16:59, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
If Merula can be co-opted as a Consul while in office are you so sure about Caesar? McCullough manages to postulate a way around the restrictions in her books on the period, and it is also valuable to take into account the high degree of change that the society was being subjected to at that time. Of interest also is the question of the marriage to the Flaminica. why should her death render the Flamen out of his office? Graves in his book 'The White Goddess' postulates that the reason for this is because the office was originally matrilinearlly bestowed by virtue of a propoerly constructed marriage to the heiress that bore the title. If that were the case then one could presume that by historical times, with the advent of patriarchal structures, the form merely remained, with no connection anymore to the original reason.
The link to Merula is not correct as it takes you to Tarquinio Merula, a different person of the 17th century(Though with an intriguingly etruscan sounding name)
