Emperors & their relations with plebians
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- Created on: 01-05-16 00:03
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- Relations with plebs
- Augustus 27BC - 14AD
- Gave out money and grain to plebs in times of shortage (Suetonius)
- Gave handouts of money at his own expense (Res Gestae)
- On election day he would go out and vote with his tribe to show he was a man of the people
- Tiberius 14AD - 37AD
- "Crushes riots without mercy" (Suetonius)
- Hardly ever attended public shows (Suetonius)
- Showed large generosity no more than twice (Tacitus and Suetonius)
- Caligula 37AD -41AD
- Initially popular with the crowds (Suetonius)
- Twice presented every pleb with 3 gold pieces (Suetonius)
- Complained there was no great disaster to win popularity through "political expediency" (Suetonius)
- Claudius 41AD - 54AD
- Would rise and clap with an audience at shows
- Provided employment for 30,000 men for 11 years - the draining of the Fucine lake (Suetonius)
- Gave magnificent public shows (Suetonius)
- Nero 54AD - 68AD
- Gave jobs to those of lower social backgrounds (Suetonius)
- Disliked by the people as he used their tax money to indulge his interests for personal gain (Suetonius)
- Keen to show his lavish generosity (Suetonius)
- Vespasian 69AD - 79AD
- After fires of 68/69AD - allowed anyone who pleases to take over vacant sites (Suetonius)
- Built the Flavian Amphitheatre (Suetonius)
- Wanted to ensure that the working classes had enough money to pay for their food (Suetonius)
- Attempted to cast himself as a man of the people (Suetonius)
- Titus 79AD - 81AD
- Displayed huge generosity (Suetonius)
- Never let a petitioner leave without some hope that his request would be considered - great political skills (Suetonius)
- Set up relief operations after the eruption of Vesuvius 79AD (Suetonius)
- Operation was aborted as it proved too huge an ordeal (from archaeological evidence)
- Domitian 81AD - 96AD
- Gave people a choice in what they saw in games (Suetonius)
- Feast of the Seven Hills - large hampers of food for senators and knights but smaller ones for plebs (Suetonius)
- Built a number of significant public buildings e.g. a new Forum (Suetonius)
- Cancels grain distribution (Suetonius)
- Augustus 27BC - 14AD
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