HIST 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Civil Religion, State Religion, Sodales Augustales
7 Feb 2018
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Roman government is mainly reactive, not proactive. Governors could be corrupt, as well as locals who exploited the rules for their own profit. This opportunity was because the roman rule depended on local elites. Whether it was for profit, because the local governor may become close to the emperor. Locals get in good with the governor, and then they get recommended by the governor to the emperor, which elevates them to local government and the local elite. Romans viewed provinces as a collection of cities with individual treaties and policies. In the eastern part of the mediterranean they mostly left them alone. Greeks already had a major history, and had their own governing and elites. Basically their cities looked more or less like roman cities, and tended to leave them alone with a little bit of roman aspect added on to it. They put veterans there and created a new city, built from the ground up.
