Divine Honours for the Caesars

The First Christians’ Responses by Bruce W. Winter

Young Nero as Pontifex Maximus

Young Nero as Pontifex Maximus

Corinth

Discussed on pp. 69, 296

Young Nero aged only 16 year and 9 months when he became emperor, here portrayed unshaven and wearing the veil portraying him as the great high priest (pontifex maximus).