Admisitration

Question 1

Res Gestae

Augustus

Answer 1

• I refused dictatorship and consulship that was offered by the senate and people
• I didn’t decline that charge of grain supply. At the greatest scarcity of grain, I freed the entire people at my own expense.

Question 2

Cassius Dio

Augustus

Answer 2

• bought many laws against the assembly, if they caused displeasure he could correct them
• Yet nothing was done that did not please ceasar

Question 3

Pliny

August (Agrippa)

Answer 3

• Agrippa was the first commissioner of water

- formed 700 wells

Question 4

Pliny

Caligula and Claudius

Answer 4

• improved the aqua ducks brining water from 40 miles, spending 350 million sesterces

Question 5

Suetonius

Augustus

Answer 5

• Augustus building programme
• I found Rome a city of bricks, I left it a city of marble
• temple of Jupiter/ palatine temple of Apollo

Question 6

Cassius Dio

Caligula

Answer 6

• gained reputation for generosity

- handed out money to city troops, night watch, people
100 sesterces to pretorian guards

Question 7

Suetonius

Claudius

Answer 7

• long drought, scarcity of grain, mobbed in forum. Used every possible mean to bring grain to Rome, even in winter
• all roman grain imported yet mouth of Tibet had no harbour
• commissions net harbour of Ostia ( corroborated by Cassius dio and archeological ruins)

Question 8

Tacitus

Nero

Answer 8

• only 4 is Rome’s 14 districts were left unaffected by the great fire of Rome.
• Nero constructed the Domos Anura but also rebuilt city with fire proof stone and better provisions of water and fire fighting equipment
• accused Christians of starting fire to remove suspicions from himself, many arrested and brutally executed( burnt alive)
• Nero was in action and returned to after immediate relief, which he paid for with his own money