The Roman Empire. Economy, Society and Culture
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Emperors and dynasties In the prevailing tradition, Kings were expelled from Rome and the Republic was inaugurated in 509 BC. Li ...
4 THE ROMAN EMPIRE shot holes in the traditional system. Although subject to recurrent illness (he nearly died in 23 BC ), Augus ...
INTRODUCING THE PRINCIPATE 5 were intended to hold the fort until a grandson became of age to rule. This strategy collapsed thro ...
6 THE ROMAN EMPIRE unproblematic – he was quickly acclaimed by the senate – but he still found it advisable to bribe the guardsm ...
INTRODUCING THE PRINCIPATE 7 emperors. In the telling words of Cassius Dio, contemporary historian and senator, the kingdom of g ...
8 THE ROMAN EMPIRE authority ( auctoritas ) was greater, within a restored Republic. As he wrote in the Res Gestae , with refere ...
INTRODUCING THE PRINCIPATE 9 traditionally senatorial territory, and others that were novel, notably, the fashioning of the imag ...
10 THE ROMAN EMPIRE One function of the senate, a highly signifi cant one, remains to be discussed. It became customary for the ...
INTRODUCING THE PRINCIPATE 11 dictatorship, an ‘annual and perpetual’ consulship, and a supervision of law and morals. There is ...
12 THE ROMAN EMPIRE of the Principate as instituted by Augustus. The position of the clause in the statute may hold the key to t ...
INTRODUCING THE PRINCIPATE 13 senate through discussion and voting, atrophied under the Principate. It did not help if an empero ...
14 THE ROMAN EMPIRE The Younger Pliny is often taken as representative of a new breed of senator who set the tone of Roman senat ...
INTRODUCING THE PRINCIPATE 15 (delegated) power, and the honour and material rewards that they derived therefrom.^34 They warmed ...
16 THE ROMAN EMPIRE disruption and confusion of the preceding half- century. No emperor after the Severan period approaches Dioc ...
INTRODUCING THE PRINCIPATE 17 Aggressive warfare, wars of conquest, virtually came to an end after Augustus. Britain was taken i ...
18 THE ROMAN EMPIRE Principate, and strengthened the claim of the Princeps to be carrying on the great traditions of conquest of ...
The setting Contemporaries explained the rise of Rome in terms of the moral character, political institutions, military talent a ...
20 THE ROMAN EMPIRE (126). Strabo’s message is in line with the political ideology of the Augustan age, which stressed the cultu ...
A MEDITERRANEAN EMPIRE 21 as far north as southern Scotland and the Rhine and Danube (with the addition of a slice of southern G ...
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