List of Pontifices Maximi

This annotated list of Pontifices maximi, the high priest of the collegium of the Pontifices, the most important position in Roman religion,[1] is based on readings from Livy and other classical historians, but also from lists available elsewhere. Suggested identifications are made where possible, but are tentative.

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Incomplete list of Pontifices maximi

From some indeterminate later date to present, the title "Pontifex Maximus" is applied to the Popes.

Notes and references

  1. ^ Bowersock, p. 380. The date is provided by inscribed calendars; see also Augustus, Res Gestae 10.2. Dio 27.2 reports this under 13 BC, probably as the year in which Lepidus died (Bowersock, p. 383).
  2. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1952).
  3. ^ Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita iv. 44.
  4. ^ # ^ Velleius Paterculus, Roman History 2.43; Plutarch, Caesar 7; Suetonius, Julius 13
  5. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia: Gratian

References

  1. Bowersock, G. W. (1990). "The Pontificate of Augustus", in Kurt A. Raaflaub and Mark Toher (eds.): Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and his Principate. Berkeley: University of California Press, 380–394. ISBN 0-520-08447-0.

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