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New-York Daily Tribune. (New-York [N.Y.]), 19 Sept. 1844. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030213/1844-09-19/ed-1/seq-2/

For Faustina the Elder:





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For Valeria Messalina (empress who was never Augusta):

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For Matidia (Augusta who was never empress):

For Antonia Minor:

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For Agrippina Minor (both but with different predecessors/successors):





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New signature; thought I'd let you know. Q·L·1968 ☿ 19:21, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Pensen en els que lluiten

 * Celtic mythology (Irish mythology – Welsh mythology)
 * Celtic polytheism
 * list of Celtic gods
 * Celt
 * Gallo-Roman religion (Roman Gaul) – Roman Britain
 * British Iron Age

Medium-term to-do list

 * Hittite family tree (add page numbers), pitch to Near East project: Yes check.svg Done, now &#123;&#123;Hittite tree&#125;&#125;
 * Expand and improve Commagene article Yes check.svg Done
 * Expand and improve Faustina the Elder article Yes check.svg Done
 * Faustine en Concorde (gare de Termini)
 * tidbits from RE: called Faustina Maior (diuae Faustinae maioris) or Rom. Mitt. II, 1887, 205f; citations re children [viz];,  [EDCS-22901624],  ,
 * buried in Hadrian's mausoleum
 * Finish transition to &#123;&#123;sfnp&#125;&#125; in Treveri Yes check.svg Done
 * Expand and improve Drusus the Elder article Yes check.svg Done
 * Expand and improve Lucilla article?
 * Expand and improve Sarri-Kusuh article?
 * Copy edit Roman–Parthian War of 161–166—additional sources?
 * Source template:Nerva–Antonine family tree
 * Go through and add "Imperial rank"/"Imperial dignity"/"Roman emperor" where applicable
 * Reopen discussion on empress succession boxes in teahouse
 * Add Augusta succession boxes
 * add gleanings re Hurrian names (e.g. Kurunta)
 * clean up Airgíalla
 * Maybe a Sophene-style template at the bottom for kings of Commagene and important sites?
 * Translate some rugby articles into Interlingua?
 * Tidy up List of Roman and Byzantine Empresses
 * Suggest moves from (mythology) to (deity)/(god)/(goddess) where appropriate
 * New page for Great King (of Hatti, Mitanni, Yamhad, Egypt, Babylon...)? Yes check.svg Meh, no need
 * Create/update Irish distillery articles? Echlinville, Derry, Teeling, etc.

Celtic cleanup project
Be suspicious of Celtic religion articles contributed by User:TUF-KAT in mid-September 2002. I think he closely followed www,gallica.co.uk, a site with plenty of useful stuff, but their section on 'gods' is mostly patent nonsense.

Suspected es or nonsense
(Use subst from now on.)
 * Agrona
 * Ambisagrus
 * Beira (mythology)

Orphaned articles that probably deserve parents

 * Ancasta
 * Ialanos move to Ialonos/Ialonus or merge with Contrebis
 * Latis
 * Satiada

In need of cleanup

 * Áine
 * Danu (Irish goddess)
 * Erecura
 * Maponos
 * Mogons – very seriously GeoffMGleadalled
 * Toutatis (horrible! horrible! multiple blatant falsehoods, also repeated on the page of the corresponding asteroid)
 * Veteris

In desire of maps

 * Erecura
 * Rosmerta
 * Sucellus
 * Grannos + Borvo + Maponos (+ Belenos?)

Create-worthy

 * Icovellauna
 * Lenus : somebody pipped me to the post!
 * Visucius : Visucios, Visucia, Visuclus, Visugius

Antonine family tree

 * (1)=1st spouse
 * (2)=2nd spouse (not shown)
 * (3)=3rd spouse
 * SMALL CAPS =posthumously deified (Augustus, Augusta, or other)

User:QuartierLatin1968/Hittite tree

Gods of Nemrud



 * p10: Commagene under Tigranes' rule from about 90 to 70 BCE
 * p10: one of the "compliant client-kingdoms to act as buffers between her [Rome's] own sphere and that of Parthia, the new great power in the East"
 * p10: Zeugma and Samosata the kingdom's two Euphrates crossings
 * p10: "occupied a strategic liminal position between the Roman and Parthian spheres of power, analogous to that of Armenia to the north and Cilicia and northern Syria to the south"
 * p12: "Antiochos' full official title was: Basileus Megas Antiochos Theos Dikaios Epiphanēs Philorhomaios kai Philhellēn – 'Great King Antiochos, God, Just, Manifest, Friend of the Romans and Friend of the Greeks'."
 * p12: "he wrote (and surely spoke) in Greek, but by using Philhellēn he showed immediately he did not consider himself actually to be a Greek."
 * p13-14: contrast hierothesia or tomb-sanctuaries (viz. Arsameia on the Euphrates = Gerger, Arsameia on the Nymphaios = Arsameia, and Nemrud Dağ) with temenē without tombs
 * p14: at Sofraz Köy was "a temenos dedicated to Apollo and Artemis Dictynna"
 * p14: four other enthroned gods "are called synthronoi theoi, or 'throne-sharing gods'", viz. (1) himself, (2) Kommagene, (3) Zeus-Oromasdes, (4) Apollo-Mithras-Helios-Hermes, and (5) Artagnes-Herakles-Ares
 * p14: Ahura Mazda supreme deity in Zoroastrianism, Mithras and Artagnes "were minor Mazdaean deities, subordinates and aides of Ahura Mazda. They [= presumably all five synthronoi theoi] appear here for the first time in these combinations."
 * p14: "Roman Mithraic mysteries are a long way off, and Commagene probably has little to do with them."
 * p15: text of the inscriptions published in
 * p16: his kingdom "'the common dwelling place of all the gods'"
 * p18: "Antiochos' cult is the very best documented example of a centrally organized Hellenistic royal cult."
 * p18: "cult statues, festivals, sacrifices, and meals in honour of the king and gods. The ritual is perhaps a little colourless. There is no mention of hymns, games, competitions, nor of special clothes or wreathes, or exciting taboos for the participants"
 * p18: priests must wear Persian dress, though "Some of the main elements of the cult and its ritual as described in the texts are Greek in character"; outdoor worship on a mountain-top, with open-air cult statues, also "local and Iranian elements". But no fire altars, no soma, no good-versus-evil dualism. "In the inscriptions, the cult ideas then are mainly Greek with some eastern overlay. The eastern component emerges more strongly in the images."
 * p19: "These syncretic gods probably had no independent life in Commagene (or elsewhere) outside the royal cult – they were explicitly basilikoi daimones, 'royal gods'."
 * p19: "Antiochos' monuments are not much like anything earlier, and they are entirely without artistic progeny in this precise manner later."
 * p19: "The scale and method of construction are clearly of Pharaonic inspiration."
 * p20: combination of five-pointed crown (kitaris or tiara) and clean-shaven look are copied by Antiochus from Tigranes' style; also wears diadem (white cloth band tied around head), tunic, leggings, cloak, skirt, and has sceptre: "probably the contemporary horse-riding costume of the Armenian and Parthian elite"
 * p20: in dexiosis images, Artagnes-Herakles "is entirely Herakles" (club, lion skin, etc.)
 * p20-21: Kommagene has a modius and cornucopia; Zeus-Oromasdes and Apollo-Mithras-Helios-Hermes wear conical "so-called 'Persian' tiara" or Phrygian cap (radiate in dexioseis); Artagnes-Herakles-Ares has a club; bundles of tamarisk twigs born by the three Olympian synthronoi
 * p21: "There is no trace of the time-honoured iconography of Mesopotamian or Iranian divine power: no horned, winged, or animal-headed deities, no busts in winged discs."
 * p22: carvers perhaps displaced artisans from Seleucid kingdom, now kaput
 * p23: "Antiochos could not know that he was not going to found a long and glorious kingdom and a model of Persian-Greek style that would last for centuries. [...] in Antiochos' monuments, a strong blazing light is shone on one of history's many dead-ends and roads not taken."
 * p23: "flirted with Parthian allegiance three times – in 69, 64, and 38 BC [sic] – but Lucullus, Pompeius, and Antonius, respectively, put paid to such ambitions."
 * p23: no evidence of popular votives at the sanctuaries
 * p24: "one of the best-documented case-studies of advanced megalomania in the ancient world"
 * p24: Vespasian exiles the royal family in 72 CE