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When was the Battle of Actium?

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2nd September 31BC

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What city did Octavian found near Actium?

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Nikopolis

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What did Octavian dedicate as a victory offering after Actium?

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Ten ships dedicated to a local dockyard

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What source describes the ‘huge crowds and universal acclaim’ which met Augustus on his return from Actium?

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Velleius Paterculus

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Who was Marcus Agrippa?

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Commander of the fleet at Actium. Augustus’ closest ally until his death in 12BC

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When was the First Constitutional Settlement?

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27BC

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When was the Second Constitutional Settlement?

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23BC

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What was outlined in the First Constitutional settlement?

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  • title of Augustus (revered one)
  • certain honours e.g laurel on doorposts
  • redistributed provinces
  • to last 10 years
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In the Res Gestae, how does Augustus describe his role in the Government?

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He says he had more auctoritas than everyone else, but had no more potestas than his colleagues

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What does Dio say of Augustus’s reason for redistributing the provinces?

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“that the senators should be unarmed and unprepared for war, while he possessed arms and controlled troops”

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Main 2 reasons for the Second Constitutional Settlement 23BC?

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  • Augustus took 1 of 2 consulships which snubbed the senators
  • Augustus’ loose collection of honours and titles couldn’t be passed down
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Two powers of the 2nd Constitutional Settlement 23BC?

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  • imperium proconsulare maius
  • tribunicia potestas
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Power of Imperium proconsulare maius?

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  • power greater than that of a consul
  • meant Augustus could overrule any provincial governor’s authority
  • didn’t need to be laid down at the Pomerium - therefore meant lifelong military power
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Power of Tribunicia potestas?

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  • the power of a tribune
  • could call the senate, put forward ideas, veto legislation
  • meant Augustus could pass legislation
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Who said that tribunicia potestas was the expression of the supremacy of Augustus’ position?

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Tacitus

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What was the triple triumph celebrating?

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Octavian’s military victories at Dalmatia, Actium and Alexandria

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What was built in Rome as a celebration of Octavian’s civil war victory?

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The triple triumphal arch

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Examples of coinage celebrating military victories?

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  • trimple triumph on denarii
  • the capture of Egypt 27BC
  • annexation of Armenia 20/19/18BC
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What point does Augustus make in the Res Gestae to stress the peace of his reign? Which ancient writer also points this out?

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that the doors of the temple of Janus were closed 3 times in his reign when before he was born they were only closed twice.
Suetonius repeats this point

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“the limbs of the body politic…. healing back together”

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Paterculus on Augustus’ reign

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2 prophetic passages in what promote the idea that Augustus was predestined to rule?

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Virgil’s Aeneid

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22
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“What has destructive Time not made worse”

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Horace Ode 3.6 - on the need for social and moral restoration of Rome

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2 examples of coinage portraying Augustus restoring Rome?

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28BC aureus - ‘he has restored to the Roman people their laws and rights’

12BC aureus - Augustus is portrayed extending his right hand to a representation of the roman state. Literally raising it from its knees

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24
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Augustus is ‘who shall bring back again the age of gold to Latium’

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Virgil Aeneid

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Suetonius says that Augustus was concerned ‘native Roman stock’ not be contaminated by what?

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foreign or servile blood

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What two pieces of legislation made up Augustus’ moral reforms in 18BC?

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‘the Julian Law on the duties of husbands’ and ‘the Julian Law on constraining adultery’

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When was Augustus’ moral legislation passed and how?

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18BC - due to his Tribunician power

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28
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How many lustra did Augustus perform in his reign?

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3

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29
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When was the first census of Augustus? When was the last?

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28BC
14AD

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30
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Evidence that Rome flourished under Augustus?

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The population increased with every census

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31
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Who says that Augustus repeatedly turned down the role of dictator he was offered?

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Paterculus

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32
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What source compares Augustus to Romulus?

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Ovid’s Fasti

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33
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When did Augustus become Pontifex Maximus?

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12BC

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What did Augustus do as Pontifex Maximus which rewrote tradition to fit his values?

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Rewrote the Sibylline books and destroyed 2000 volumes of prophetic verse
(source: Suetonius)

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35
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Who presented Augustus as a god incarnate?

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Horace

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36
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How many simultaneous priesthoods did Augustus hold, according to the Res Gestae?

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7 - at least 4 shown on denarii before Pontifex Maximus

37
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How many temples did Augustus claim to have restored in Rome? What source gives an exaggerated number?

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Res Gestae - 82
Virgil’s Aeneid - 300

38
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“it was our blessed leader’s care… that all the rest should never be suffered likewise to decay”

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Ovid Fasti on Augustus’ restoration of temples

39
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“O holy one, builder of temples and rebuilder too”

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Ovid Fasti on Augustus

40
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Which provinces were permitted to worship Augustus as a living god?

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Egypt and the Eastern provinces

41
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What did Suetonius say of Augustus’ thoughts on allowing his imperial cult in the east?

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  • he had respect for long-standing religions
  • he felt it was dangerous to worship a living person
42
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Where did Augustus allow a temple to himself and Rome to be built in 29BC?

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Pergamum

43
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numen

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the divine aspect of a human

44
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genius

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the spirit of a human

45
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What allowed Augustus to be worshipped without claiming to be beyond human?

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The worship of his numen and genius

46
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“there was no honour left for the gods, now that Augustus chose to be worshipped”

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Tacitus

47
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2 pieces of inscriptional evidence about Augustus’ religious worship?

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7BC inscription from Rome introducing priests of the cult of the Augustan Lares

12/13 AD inscription from Gaul on an altar to Augustus’ numen

48
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How many districts did Augustus divide Rome into?

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14

49
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How were Rome’s new districts run?

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districts - magistrates annually chosen by lot

subdivided into wards - locally elected supervisors

50
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What service did Augustus establish in Rome?

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A fire brigade (and regulations to prevent fires)

51
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Sources which describe Augustus’ diligence in adjusting and introducing laws?

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Paterculus - says the laws were mostly good
Suetonius

52
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How many times does Augustus say he revised the senatorial roll?

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3 times (probs 29,18,11BC)

53
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How many senators supported Augustus in the Civil wars out of 1000?

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700 ish

54
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What restriction did Augustus impose to rid the Senate of those who had not supported him in the civil wars?

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Property restrictions - more than doubled to 1 million sesterces minimum

55
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How many senators were removed in Augustus’ first revision c.28BC?

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190

56
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How many Senators by 18BC?

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600

57
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Augustan policies which seemed to appease the Senate?

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new offices for upkeep of buildings, roads, aqueducts and grain distribution
2 new roles as praetor
new role as praefectus urbi

58
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What evidence shows Augustus personally controlling provinces?

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Edicts of Cyrene c.7BC showing his involvement in deciding details jury composition and citizenship in the province of Cyrene

59
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What did the role of princeps allow to Romans which was new?

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The ability to appeal to a single face - not a faceless bureaucracy nor an ever-changing Republican magistrate

60
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Augustus found “a Rome built of bricks” and left it “clothed in marble”

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Suetonius on the building programme

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Suetonius’ reason for Augustus’ building programme?

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creating a Rome which was worthy of being the capital of an empire

62
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What building did the building programme centre on?

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The Augustan Forum - with its Temple of Mars Ultor

63
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Who oversaw an aqueduct improvement project from 33BC?

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Marcus Agrippa

64
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Why did Augustus work hard to keep the plebs on side?

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He was switching from a democracy to an autocracy

65
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What two methods did Augustus use to gain plebian support?

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public entertainment
largesse

66
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Augustus “seduced the soldiery with gifts, the people with corn, and everyone with the delights of peace”

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Tacitus

67
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“to Jupiter… the Senate and People of Rome took vows for the safety of Imperator Caesar because through him the State is in a more expansive and peaceful condition”? - Source

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Denarius from 16BC

68
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In what year did the people riot over corn supply, which Augustus quickly fixed after demands he become dictator?

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22BC - the first year Augustus did not serve as consul prompting speculation this event was engineered by him

69
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congiaria

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handouts to the people of Rome

70
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What congiaria was given in 24BC?

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400 sesterces each

71
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Augustus and Equestrians?

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He helped them become a distinct political group, creating certain roles exclusively for them such as governor of Egypt

72
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Augustus’ placation of the Senate?

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  • giving money
  • extended the lower ranks of cursus honorum to allow more senators to gain political experience
73
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Augustus against the Senate?

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  • banned from Egypt
  • consilium principis rendered them useless
  • 5% inheritance tax on senators from AD6 which went to military treasury
74
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Who remarked that few Senators remained by AD14 who had seen the Republic

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Tacitus

75
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What conspiracy against Augustus is doubted whether or not he invented it?

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Caepio c.23BC

76
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Which ancient sources mention the conspiracy of Caepio against Augustus?

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  • Suetonius
  • Paterculus
  • Macrobius
77
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What conspiracy does Seneca mention?

Date, people involved

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16BC
- Cinna was treated leniently by Augustus and given a consulship, on Livia’s advice

78
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How does Tacitus describe the culture of Augustus’ reign? Who does he blame?

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Tacitus says the culture was of flattery for Augustus, for which he blames the aristocracy more than Augustus himself

79
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Who presents Tiberius’ succession positively? Why?

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Paterculus
He wrote during Tiberius’ reign

80
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Tacitus’ order of events of Augustus finding a successor?

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  • marries Julia to Marcellus
  • marries Julia to Agrippa
  • makes promotes Gaius and Lucius
  • adopts Tiberius
81
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Who does Tacitus claim had a hand in the deaths of Gaius (AD4) and Lucius (AD2)?

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Livia

82
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What evidence is there that Agrippa was Augustus’ initial favourite for a successor?

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denarius from 13BC showing the men together sharing tribunician power

83
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Aureus of Tiberius 15-13BC?

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Shows him and Drusus presenting triumphal branches to Augustus - likely in recognition of their conquest of Raetia

84
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What powers did the Senate decree to Gaius and Lucius? (2)

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  • princeps iuventutis - ‘leader of the youth’
  • consul designate aged 15
85
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Evidence of Gaius’ and Lucius’ preference for successors?

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Res Gestae, Tacitus, commemorative aureus of them as princeps iuventutis

86
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Evidence of Tiberius as final choice for Augustus’ successor?

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aureus of Tiberius and Augustus from AD 13-14

87
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Evidence that Augustus was concerned with succession beyond his immediate replacement?

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Tiberius adopting Germanicus in AD4

88
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Evidence of Augustus being presented as youthful and full of vigour throughout his reign?

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as of Augustus from 11-12AD when he would have been 73 - yet portrayed the same as when he was much younger

89
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Suetonius role?

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Director of imperial archives

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