CLAB06H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pater Patriae, Pontifex Maximus, Iberian Peninsula
26 May 2013
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From octavian to august (30bc-14ad: octavian and the republic. Basis of octavian"s strategy to exert + keep power = use of traditional. Republican institutions: x dynastic or divinely-based power, x military based power. Jan. 27: hands back all his authority to the roman people but . Octavian: consul of spain, gaul, cilicia, cyrus, syria, egypt for 10 years. Most strategic and wealthy provinces/cities: named augustus, revered . Restoration of the republic + octavian-augustus turns away from his violent past. 5 bc: consulship = 6 months = suffect consuls. 2 bc: praetorian cohorts (supervised by 2 equestrian prefects) 7-8 ad: annona prefecture (5-6 ad = famines) 13 ad: urban cohorts: military reforms. Size (expenses: at least 300,000 men discharged, land and $ for veterans. Control + allegiance: almost all in imperial provinces, rise of centurions" pay, oath in the name of augustus + his family, provincial + foreign policy.
