Augustalia
augustalia also known ludi augustales augustan game festival celebrated october honor augustus first roman emperor established conjunction altar fortuna redux mark return augustus asia minor rome bc pontiff vestal conducted sacrifice date became holiday feria official religious calendar rome altar fortuna redux inaugurated october bc dedicated december augustus died ad fortuna redux recipient day religious honor name augustalia appear source time lifetime augustus honored ludi augustales game ludi presented initiative individual magistrate strictly speaking augustalia anniversary sacrifice though augustalia also refer commemoration augustus birthday september augustus list establishment festival posthumously published firstperson account achievement re gestae emphasizing take name cognomen roman festival often named deity honored neptunalia neptune cerealia cere unstated implication augustus accorded divine status establishment augustalia thus mark major development become imperial cult augustalia abbreviated avg appears calendar large capital letter like oldest festival deity rome archaic religion occurs meditrinalia october fontinalia october great antiquity imperial cult ancient rome sodales augustales scheid john honour princeps venerate god public cult neighbourhood cult imperial cult augustan rome augustus translated jonathan edmondson edinburgh university press