Divine Honours for the Caesars

The First Christians’ Responses by Bruce W. Winter

Athena & small imperial cult

Athena & the Small Imperial Cult

Athens, Greece

Discussed on pp. 128–31

The temple of Athena measured 69.5×30.8 metres and was 13.72 metres high towering over and dwarfing the imperial cult temple of Roma and Augustus that was 7.7 meters in diameter with 9 columns. For a discussion of the highly political and iconic significance, see pp, 128–31.