Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Augustus donation
- Grain Dole
- Huge financial burden
- Augustus took it upon himself
to personally provide grain
- Appearance of a patron to entire city of Rome
- Timing
- Correspond to important political events
- 23 BC
- 2nd consitutional settlement
- 5 and 2 BC
- introduction of 'sons' into political life
- The fire service
- 21 BC
- m Eganatius Rufus
- gained popularity by organising his slaves into fire brigade
- Augustus thought this
could be used as private
army
- augustus had executed
- 19 BC
- Rufus tried to fill the vacant consul
post and there was rioting
- guise of treason
- Augustus formed Vigiles
- 600 slaves who act as the public fire service
- 6 AD regularisation of fire service did not occure
- replace 600 slaves wih 7 cohorts of 1000 men.
- Rome divided into 14 regions in 7BC and each cohort looked after 2
- Policiing
- The plebs frequently in the republic rioted
- fairly quiet during Aug's reign
- kept 3 praetorian cohorts of
1000 men in rome to prevent
major disorders
- standard policing
- divided Rome into 265 wards,
with 4 vicomagistri appointed
annually from residents
- Bread and circuses
- Plebian acceptance of
Augustus reigme was
largely because of bread
and circuses
- No famine until 6AD
- 3 Gladitorial games in his name
- 5 in the name of his sons and grandsons
- 2 Atheletic shows
- 26 wild beast shows
- a sea fight in an
artifical basin involving
30 full size warships
- 4 orginary games
- theatrical shows
and chariot races
- financial hand outs
- 400 SES
- 29
- Urban plebs
- 24
- 12 BC
- Romana
- 2 BC