A Religião Romana e o princeps Augusto: usos da esfera religiosa como tópico retórico sobre a promoção da paz.

This paper aims to analyse the connections between Religion and Power in Ancient Rome. Some religious rituals were appropriated by political rhetorical during the Augustan Principate in order to legitimize itself. The principes’ attitudes of valuing tradition and restoring social order were connected to his auctoritas. Therefore we emphasize that the worship of Pax goddess and its representations delineated the symbolic borders of a period of transition from the civil wars to the succeeding stability of a new political system. Such elements can be observed both in the material culture and in the literature of the period. Hence, we shall address the rhetorical topic discussing the coins studies and the Augustan literature since they played a fundamental role in the legitimation mentioned above. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]