This original study is the first attempt to piece together an overall picture of the origins and historical development of provincial cults in the Latin west in the period from the reign of Augustus down to the mid third century A.D.

Duncan Fishwick, B.A. (Manchester), M.A. (Oxford), M.Phil. (Manchester), D.Litt. (Leiden), is Emeritus University Professor of Classics, University of Alberta. He has published extensively in various fields of Roman History, notably the Imperial Cult, including The Imperial Cult in the Latin West. Vols. I,1-2; II,1-2 (Brill, 1987-92).