Abstract
The “ Augustan Party” and its Religious Action in Italy (30s BC-20s AD) – Historiography has long neglected the religious behaviour of the “ Augustan aristocracy”, despite the significant role that social group actually played in sacred matters at the time. Under Augustus, religion was not the monopoly of one autocrat allowing no initiatives from the principes uiri. Among those who built the imperial cult’s first sanctuaries, the most notable were thus P. Vedius Pollio, closely related to the emperor, and L. Volusius Saturninus, suffect consul in 3 AD. High ranking provincial administrators also contributed to the assertion of the imperial cult, as was the case with P. Rubrius Barbarus in Casinum or of Q. Octavius Sagitta, a figure of equestrian rank in Superaequum. The liberti, particularly those who came directly from the imperial house, also clearly appeared as potential dedicators.
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