Emperors & their relations with freedmen
- Created by: marquisdelafayette
- Created on: 03-05-16 19:01
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- Relations with freedmen
- Augustus 27BC - 14AD
- Strict regulations of conditions and status of freedmen (Suetonius)
- Against the creation of new citizens
- Strict regulations of conditions and status of freedmen (Suetonius)
- Caligula 37AD - 41AD
- "Most powerful freedmen co-operated with the guards to plot his assassination" (Suetonius)
- Claudius 41AD - 54AD
- FELIX given command of infantry and cavalry & governorship of Judea (Suetonius)
- NARCISSUS & PALLUS given large gifts of money (Suetonius)
- More the "servant" of his freedmen than their emperor (Suetonius)
- Freedmen selling citizen/governorships (Dio)
- SILVIO expelled from the senate for offending a freedman (Dio)
- Nero 54AD - 68AD
- "For a long time Nero excluded the sons of freedmen from the senate" (Suetonius)
- Domitian 81AD - 96AD
- Gave a number of important court appointments to freedmen like Claudius (Suetonius)
- Augustus 27BC - 14AD
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