CLA160H1 Lecture 16: CLA160 Lecture 16 Notes
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Maintain senate magistrates, officials but they rarely had any real power. Many public buildings were sponsored or paid by the emperors. Ara pacis as a religious and public building with propagandistic iconography various ways to choose a new emperor how emperors maintained control good/bad relationships with senators public appearances by emperors. Depictions of augustus and his family idea of emperors: the good and the bad both positive and negative aspects of having a single emperor as leader also dependent on the reliability and effectiveness of the emperor himself. Romans in every province small government as not a good thing unofficial assistants freedmen or equestrians. Many decisions deferred to the emperor people could petition to the. Many soldiers in the provinces, but not officials. Many efforts to be popular with the people emperors did things that helped the people not always disliked.
