Tiberius refused to be officially worshipped as a living god. He promoted restraint in the official, empire-wide cult to the divinised Augustus, and established a priesthood, the Sodales Augustales, to administer its rites. He allowed a single temple to honour both his own genius and that of the Senate, at Smyrna.
Tiberius refu,sed to be officially worshipped as a living god. He promoted restraint in the official, empire-wide cult to the divinised Augustus and established a priesthood, the Sodales Augustales to administer its rites. He allowe,d a single temple to honour both his own genius and that of the Senate, at Smyrna.