The early principate Flashcards
(75 cards)
what does the principate refer to
what does the dominant refer to
Principate - part of the imperial era where the emperor is still pretending to be a citizen with a lot of clout
Dominant - the emperor are being referred to as lord and god, where they admit they are emperors
________ represents an enlightened dictatorship - bringing about social transformations
augustus
The people who follow augustus are called what? why?
the Julio-Claudian
Cause the claudius family intermarried with the julius family
Augustus is julius caesar’s grand nephew
augustus settles on ________ to be his successor cause the others kept _____
Tiberius (his step son)
dying
Augusuts wanted to control beyond his ________, of what things?
beyond his lifetime
The senate
The equites
The roman people
The provincials
The army (maius imperius)
the political difficulties of augustus’ successor usually came from neglecting _____ _______ and from alienating Rome’s ______ and _______ elite
civil consensus
political and military elite
significant for success of an emporor was their relationship to the _____ and Rome’s _______ traditions
army, military
although ugusuts said he wanted rome’s border to remain the same (in his will) the boders were frequently ________ with kings , esp with _______ becaused they separated rome from the Parthians (enemy)
renegotiated, Armenia
Augustus forced _______ him to divorce his first wife to marry his daughter _______ (the slut)
Tiberius, Julia
where was tiberius become he was called back to rome
Tiberius has gone to an island to live a secluded life before he was called back to rome
TIberius was a good ______________ ________ n shit but he had bad ________ skills,
Military commander, social skills
(introverted, cold and socially clumsy )
Tiberius’ general distrust combined with his military exp led hi to rely on the ____________ _______
he also built huge ______ at the edge of rome
ensured all future emproror would have ______ ______
Praetorian guard
barracks
body guards
When tiberius takes over after augustus dies, augus’ will makes tiberius his principle heir on what condition
this was _______
that he names his (tib’s) nephew germanicus (instead of his son) to be his principle successor
embarassing
Tiberius follows Augutus’ policy of limited _______ - no _________ wars, _____-_______ analysis
expansion
pointless, cost-advj
Germanicus was very successful in quelling the uprising going on in ________, soon he moved to ______
Germany
Syria
How does Germanicus die and why was is sus af
dies of high fever - in his room they found strange symbols that had painted over, sacrificed animals - suspicion he was poisoned
how did people react to germanicus’ death? what was his funeral like?
People really liked germanicus so they were sad
When he came back tiberius decided on a small funeral, the people wanted a huge one so they were outraged
People gathered during the moving of his body sobbing
Ugly time for tiberius
the _____ ______ began claiming that if you’re diminishing the respect for tiberius (leadsing to civil war possibly) you can be persecuted
majesty trials
one dude melted statue of tiberius to repurpose, what did the majesty trials do
n court they saw this as a direct attack on tiberius, they were punished
_______ would snitch on people at dinner parties and shit, claiming they talked down on tib
informants
this time was an increase reliance on the _____ __________
Tiberius’ was named _______
praetorian guard
sejanus
Tiberius became more of a ________, so he had _______ do his speaking for him
he rent into _____-_____
recluse
Sejanus
semi-retirement
Tib finds out thru Sejanus that his own son was planning to kill him and take over, his daughter in law (wife) confirms
what was actually doing on here
Sejanus and his daughter in law were actually lovers and planned his to get his son out the way - wanted to take over from tiberius - they got married
Sejanus was basically running rome, how?
Sejanus claimed what he said was from tiberius so no one could speak against him
