Week 10 Flashcards
Which time periods together mae the Roman Imperial Period?
The Principate and the Dominate
Which time periods does the principate include?
BCE to CE
Principate then the Dominate
Who is Rome’s first emperor?
Augustus (formerly known as Octavian)
What is the Roman Imperial Period?
When rome was ruled by emperors
(~500 years)
What did Augustus name himself?
The princeps- this means the first citizen like everyone else (which avoided any connotations of being a king/there being a monarchy)
What is significant points about the Principate?
It is the empire at its largest
when rome was ruled by princeps
the wealthiest
Significant points of the dominate
Had dominus
the was the diocletian and tetrarchy
the reign of constantine and christianity
the east continues as the Byzantine Empire
Dominus
lords or master
Who came up with the tetrarchy and what was it?
Diocletian
Tetrarchy was a new system that divided the empire into 4
The East vs the West
east
-stable
greek speaking
west
-unstable
struggled
latin
a lot of the east empire called the east their empire but lived in constanape
Imperial portraits
the good emperors were copied and the bad ones were avoided
What were portraits like when augustus was in power?
he brought back the eternal youthful look
the golden age
the portrait fed into the purpose/goal of his ruling
Nero
last emperor of the principate
tried to mimic augustus
he was a teen
Vespasian
tried to copy republic styles with older looks
Hadrian
presence of a bread and maybe influenced by greek culture