Emperors & their relations with equestrians/knights
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- Created on: 01-05-16 15:28
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- Relations with equestrians
- Augustus 27BC - 14AD
- Concerned with preserving the dignity and majesty of the equestrian class (Suetonius)
- Threw those with scandalous lives out of the equestrian order (Suetonius)
- Tiberius 14AD - 37AD
- Some were getting themselves downgraded so they could appear on stage: Tiberius found out and exiled them. (Suetonius)
- Refused to allow Sejanus to marry Livia (Tacitus)
- Caligula 37D - 41AD
- Publicly degraded those guilty of wicked behaviour (Suetonius)
- Encouraged plebs to steal the seats of knights at the theatre and gave them permission to wear senatorial dress (Cassius Dio)
- Claudius 41AD - 54AD
- Awarded consular homes to provincial knights (Suetonius)
- New regulations for the military careers of knights (Suetonius)
- Nero 54AD - 68AD
- Reserves seats for knights at the circus (Suetonius)
- Made 400 senators and 600 knights fight in the arena - humiliation (Suetonius)
- Vespasian 69AD - 79AD
- Reformed the order (Suetonius)
- Removed undesirables and replaced them with more eligible men (Suetonius)
- Senators possibly treated as a cut above the knights (Suetonius)
- Domitian 81AD - 96AD
- Campaign for improving public morals - forbade members of the public from taking seats reserved for knights (Suetonius)
- Struck a knight off the roll for accusing his wife of adultery and then taking it straight back again (Suetonius)
- Augustus 27BC - 14AD
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