Augustus' Reforms Flashcards
Leges Juliae
18BC - Attempted to elevate the morals of the Roman population swell as its legitimate numbers. It encouraged having children and made adultery a crime. It also gave legal benefits to women who had 3 legitimate sons, such as property ownership.
Centennial Games
17BC - Revived by Augustus, they were a republican festival that was held to mark the beginning of a new age.
Pontifex Maximus
12BC - Augustus becomes Pontifex maximus
Altar of Peace ( Ara Pacis)
9BC - Commissioned by the senate to celebrate Augustus’ return from Spain and Gaul.
Lex Papia Poppaea
9AD - Introduced to strengthen earlier moral laws. Senators and their children were forbidden to marry freedmen/women. Childless people would only inherit half of everything left to them. Did not bear Augustus’ name.
Augustus’ Provinces
27BC - Gaul, Spain, Egypt, Syria. Most armies in these regions
Augustus’ right to declare war and make treaties on behalf of rome.
27BC
Octavian made Augustus
27BC - by the senate
Princeps Senatus
27BC - Made leading member of senate. Given the civil crown, laurel crowns, a statue called the clupeus virtutis which was placed next to the goddesss victory in the senate house.
Augustus given consular imperium
27BC - he was given 10 years of consular imperium and was consul from 31BC-23BC.
Proconsular imperium
27BC - As much power as proconsuls in their own provinces.
commendatio
27BC - Tribal assembly elections for tribunes was constrained by Augustus’ candidate picks.
tribunicia Potestas
23BC - Augustus resigned his consulship but gained the power of a tribune for life. He numbered his reign from that date.
compensation for loss of imperium consulae
23BC - Right to seat at Consul’s platform in senate house.
right to speak first at senate meetings. Right to summon senate meetings.
Imperium mains proconsulae
23BC - Held more authority than proconsuls throughout the empire.
