Genius (mythology)
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In Roman religion, the genius is the individual instance of a general divine nature that is present in every individual person, place, or thing. Much like a guardian angel, the genius would follow eac
Winged genius facing a woman with a tambourine and mirror, from southern Italy, about 320 BC
Bronze genius depicted as pater familias (1st century AD)
Head of a genius wearing a modius, found at Vindobona, the Roman military camp in Pannonia (2nd century AD)
Genius of Domitian
Roman imperial cult
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The Roman imperial cult identified emperors and some members of their families with the divinely sanctioned authority of the Roman State. Its framework was based on Roman and Greek precedents, and was
Venus and Mars sculpture group reworked to portray an Imperial couple (created 120–140 AD, reworked 170–175)
Repoussé pendant of Alexander the Great, horned and diademed like Zeus Ammon; images of Alexander were worn as magic charms (4th-century Roman).
Ruins of a hero-shrine or heroön at Sagalassos, Turkey
Denarius of C. Cossutius Maridianus, 44 BC, with the head of Julius Caesar on the obverse. The legend mentions PARENS PATRIAE