RG religious leader

• Augustus lists the main colleges he belongs to -> “pontifex maximus, augur, one of the fifteen commissioners for performing priestly duties, one of the seven priests responsible for sacred feasts”
• Reviving Roman religion

  • “brought back many examples of ancestral practices that were becoming obsolete”
  • “I restored eighty two temples of the gods”
• Abided by Roman religious tradition

  • “I received the priesthood.. on the death of the man who had held it”
  • Built several temples to the gods including the Temple of Palatine Apollo and of Divine Julius
  • Put on the “Games of Mars”