# Loeb and Dio English prints record a living-emperor cult and temple towards Gaius

Date: 1914

## The fact

Loeb Suetonius and LacusCurtius Dio Book 59 print the received programme of divine honours, a temple, and identification with gods while Gaius lived. The dated carriers are those English-Latin pages. A living cult polarises elites who still remembered Augustus’s caution.

## Context

Imperial cult already existed for the dead and for Rome-and-Augustus in the provinces. Making the living man a god in the city is the escalation in the received account.

[Caligula](/people/caligula) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official edition, museum, or agency page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Cassius Dio Book 59 — LacusCurtius (https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/59*.html; LacusCurtius / University of Chicago).

## Significance

A printed living-cult heading is a polarising sacralisation of one office.

A printed living-cult heading is a polarising sacralisation of one office.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Caligula: https://factrail.ai/people/caligula

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caligula-Roman-emperor
- https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/59*.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cal-self-cult-temple