CLA233H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Doryphoros, Imperium, Centuriate Assembly
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More and more people had money and so augustus changed the requirements to be upper classmen. Described by dionysius of halicarnassus: gift, pay own fee, bribes, popularity of master. Financial reasons can no longer care for a slave. Political reasons slaves could then vote. Personal reasons legal marriage, friendship: slaves were not legally allowed to marry. Match actual freedman with systems of identity through tombstone inscription (cil = latin inscription) Patroness has distinct hairstyle similar to wife of augustus: hair = status by relating to livia, can be used to date the iconography by similarity to livia. The freedmen are not actually represented, only the patrons. Freedmen might have done this to earn favours with former masters. Understand hierarchy of elected officials in ancient rome. Discuss the relationship between the elite and non-elite. Structure of roman government: magistrates, senate, voting assemblies. Voting assemblies: centuriate assembly (comitia centuriata) military origin.
