CLST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Aedile, Pomerium, Lex Hortensia
1 Feb 2013
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Importance of augustus: how his figure was able to change from a system to an empire. Carried out the supervision of laws and morals, held tribunicia potestas (power of a tribune) During his rule, there were many young couples who didn"t have children because she focused her lives on something else other than bearing children. Extended power on plebes, acted as tribune because he had tribunicia potestas. After caesar imperium romanum began to mean roman empire. Some magistrates had imperium, some did not, this imperium started to have this new meaning of empire after caesar. Magistrates in rome, mentioned that there were also 3 kinds of assemblies within rome, which were very important but they worked in a very different way from an assembly, like the ekklesia in athens, and our modern assemblies. Cicero, on the republic: what cato says, constitution of city founded by laws and institutions of collective, not single individual.
