morality and social
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- Created on: 29-05-15 15:11
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- morality and social legislation
- decline in morality among upper classes
- adultery had become fashionable. many people didn't marry or wanted marriage without responsibility.
- there was excess in luxuries such as clothes, jewellery, houses and food
- Augustus' family situation
- behaviour of his daughter and granddaughter julia was scandalous. -he exiled her
- suet: 'he came to the conclusion that the Elder and the Younger Julia had been indulging in every sort of vice; and banished them'
- nothing would persuade him to forgive his daughter
- suet: 'he came to the conclusion that the Elder and the Younger Julia had been indulging in every sort of vice; and banished them'
- augustus married three times, taking Livia, his third wife from her husband Tiberius nero when she was pregnant.
- forced his stepson Tiberius to divorce the wife he loved and marry Julia.
- married Livia in 36BC and seemed to remain devoted.
- behaviour of his daughter and granddaughter julia was scandalous. -he exiled her
- used tribunician power to legislate on morality
- 18BC the Julian Laws- concerned with public morality as well as criminal jurisdiction.
- lex julia
- did face opposition especiallyfrom the equestrians- cause for adjustment.
- AD9 lex Papia Poppaea
- tried to limit excessive luxury through a sumptuary law- but this failed.
- attempted to protect marriage by regulatingsexual relations and divorce.
- a man had to divorce his wife before he could take any action against her for suspected adultery.
- punishments for the guilty were severe- sent to islands- lands confiscated etc.
- men also punished if they failed to divorce an adulterous woman or if they married an adulterous woman.
- punishments for the guilty were severe- sent to islands- lands confiscated etc.
- a man had to divorce his wife before he could take any action against her for suspected adultery.
- attempted to protect marriage by regulatingsexual relations and divorce.
- tried to encourage marriage by setting age limits (25 for men, 20 for women)
- he imposed penalties on the unmarried- they were not allowed to accept inheritance
- he also gave rewards to men and women with children- preference given in elections to family men.
- tried to limit excessive luxury through a sumptuary law- but this failed.
- AD9 lex Papia Poppaea
- 18BC the Julian Laws- concerned with public morality as well as criminal jurisdiction.
- LAWS GENERALLY INEFFECTIVE
- Those that proposed changes in AD9 were unmarried.
- decline in morality among upper classes
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