POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Popillii Laenates, Roman Citizenship
5 Nov 2015
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After the republic falls, the roman empire emerges with augustus. The emperor recognizes that the institutions need to stay in place. The notion of roman citizenship something that will be appealed to later on: rome and citizenship, gaius popillius laenas. Once upon a time there was a very bad and nasty king of syria. Rome being the best of all nations was everyone"s hero the senate and the people of rome gave them gaius he was given 12 people. They sailed in a tiny little ship to alexandria. King yelled rome has no business in egypt laenas said go back to syria. Laenas ordered him to go back, everything is. Rome everything has been and everything is me said laenas. The king ended up marching back to syria. This story tells that to be a citizen of rome is not a passive affair even it means putting your liberty is at risk: recovering liberty.
