CLA231H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Mos Maiorum, Palatine Hill, Hispania Baetica
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[text] letter of vespasian to sabora, a municipium in baetica, 77ce. Gives permission to build a town under his name. They have tax issues - the town says they had approval from augustus to collect revenues. Short rule means no time for things to go wrong. Go senate relationship, finished the colosseum, good administrator, gifts to roman ppl, set up commission to distribute aid after eruption of vesuvius. Interested in admin but not very good at it. After a failed conspiracy against him in 89, he becomes paranoid and begins his reign of terror. Wants to be addressed as dominus et deus, in attempt to expand the emperor cult. Allowed foreign gods to become part of roman religious culture. Made enough enemies that he suffered and official domnatio memoriae [more so than of. 96ce, assassinated by conspiracy of senators and his wife. Imprint on the topography of rome imprinting imperial ideology. Drawing on resources from all over the empire.
