Laws etc

Question 1

AT the beginning of his reign

Answer 1

Gradually he showed he was indeed princeps

Took considerable pains to further the national interest

Question 2

what did he get the Aediles to do

Answer 2

Aediles to restrict the amount of food offers for sale in cookshops/eating houses, banning bakery items.

Question 3

kissing

Answer 3

Issued an edict against promiscuous kissing.

Question 4

gift giving on the kalends of July

Answer 4

An edict against the giving of gifts after the Kalends of January.
He used to return gifts 4 times as valuable, presented personally. Whole of January spoilt by gift givers who had not been able to get an audience on the actual Kalends

Question 5

punishing married women

Answer 5

Revived the ancient Roman custom that punished married women guilty of improprieties by the decision of a family council, when no one had brought a public prosecution.

Question 6

a case of taboo adultery

Answer 6

An eques swore he would never divorce his wife, found her in bed with their son-in-law, Tiberius absolved him from his oath

Question 7

people reducing their ranks

Answer 7

• Married women from good families but bad reputation were beginning to declare themselves professional prostitutes and escape punishment by renouncing the privileges of their rank.
• Senatorial and Equatorian ranks reduced their status so they could appear on the stage or in the arena.

Question 8

what did Tiberius do to those that reduced their rank

Answer 8

these offenders were all exiled. Discouraged sheltering behind the letter of the law

Question 9

supported a marriage case

Answer 9

-cancelled the quaestorship of a man who married a woman, next day drew lots for a province, divorced her the next day.

Question 10

foreign cults

Answer 10

Abolished foreign cults at Rome (Egyptian and Jewish), forced them to burn their religious vestments

Question 11

Jews

Answer 11

Jews of military age removed to unhealthy regions on the pretext of drafting them into the army
- Those too old/young expelled from the city, threatened with slavery if they defied the order

Question 12

astrologers

Answer 12

Tiberius banished all astrologers, unless they asked for his forgiveness and undertook to abandon the art.

Question 13

banditry and revolts

Answer 13

Safeguarded the country against banditry and local revolts

Question 14

military posts

Answer 14

decreasing the distance between Military posts

Question 15

praetorian guards

Answer 15

At Rome he provided the praetorian guards with regular barracks and a fortified camp (before in scattered lodging houses)

Question 16

removed trouble x4

Answer 16

Crushed city riots without mercy
Theatre audience formed factions in support of rival actors. Ended in bloodshed, exiled the actors and the faction leaders
Sentenced to life imprisonment the people and magistrates Of Pollentia who would not remove the corps of a leading centurion from the marketplace until they had extorted money from his heirs for a gladiatorial show.
Abolished the right of sanctuary in temples and holy places.

Question 17

frontier incidents

Answer 17

Frontier incidents: sanctioned aggressive action only if unavoidable

Question 18

Foreign kings

Answer 18

Disciplined foreign kings suspected of ill will towards Rome with threats/reprimands rather than punitive expeditions

Question 19

Archelaus

Answer 19

(All there is on Archelaus, one of the Kings he decoyed with glowing promises to Rome where he detained them at his pleasure, reduced his kingdom to provincial statement) -Tiberius seems nicer, contrast to Tacitus account