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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8288219, member: 110504"]Fascinating (not to mention eminently plausible) interpretation, [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER].</p><p>...Granted, references to the 'state religion' --with variations-- are as endemic to the coins as to the monuments. But I remember a biography of Gallienus that I saw too many years ago, which referred to his patronage, at least, of Plotinus. Can anything meaningful be reconstructed regarding his personal religious beliefs? ...Just thinking out loud; Marcus Aurelius' adherence to Stoicism didn't stop him for a minute from presiding as Pontifex Maximus. ...How much is known about that kind of dialectic, whether in Gallienus' case or more generally?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8288219, member: 110504"]Fascinating (not to mention eminently plausible) interpretation, [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER]. ...Granted, references to the 'state religion' --with variations-- are as endemic to the coins as to the monuments. But I remember a biography of Gallienus that I saw too many years ago, which referred to his patronage, at least, of Plotinus. Can anything meaningful be reconstructed regarding his personal religious beliefs? ...Just thinking out loud; Marcus Aurelius' adherence to Stoicism didn't stop him for a minute from presiding as Pontifex Maximus. ...How much is known about that kind of dialectic, whether in Gallienus' case or more generally?[/QUOTE]
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