Abstract
The renewal of mythological representations in Imperial propaganda from Trajanus to Septimius Severius : the example of Gigantomachy. The use of the mythological representation of the fight between The Giants and the Olympians acquires renewed favour in the Roman Imperial days. From the sources, Trajan is likely to be responsible for it. Gigantomachy seems to counterbalance the historical relief : the fable acts as an allegory of the civilizing and transcendental Imperial victory. This topic of hellenistic origin spreads through microasiatic models, notably inspired by the frieze of the Great Altar of Pergamon. Gigantomachy meets with a real success in Minor Asia because of the Hellenistic heritage from the romanized cities, as well as in Gaul because of the merging of the myth with the local cult of Jupiter Taranis, to whom the Emperor was associated.
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