succession
- Created by: Grace Moorhouse
- Created on: 31-05-15 22:13
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- SUCCESSION
- reasons for preoccupation
- Roman nobility concerned with inheritance of political prestige. in order to maintain good family name sons were expected to follow in fathers footsteps.
- augustus had no natural son- needed to secure one through adoption
- his recurring ill-health spurred on his arrangements. 23BC close to death.
- many of his successors died before him.
- principate could not be inherited but some believed there should be someone in place to transfer it to.
- however augustus believed that each leader should win power in open competition and due to merit.
- methods:
- used the device of associating members of his family with him in the tribunician power- taking them as colleagues througha grant of imperium- endorsing them.
- attempts to find julian successor
- forced to rely on Tiberius- who was aclaudian but was experienced.
- some believed that Augustus was not fond of Tiberiushowever suetonius states:
- 'Augustus wighed Tiberius' good qualities against the bad, and decided that the good tipped the scale... he... had often referred to him as an outstanding general'
- tacitus argues that he was 'thoroughly aware of Tiberius' cruelty and arrogance, he intended to heighten his own glory by the contrast to one so inferior.'
- 'Augustus wighed Tiberius' good qualities against the bad, and decided that the good tipped the scale... he... had often referred to him as an outstanding general'
- some believed that Augustus was not fond of Tiberiushowever suetonius states:
- forced to rely on Tiberius- who was aclaudian but was experienced.
- reasons for preoccupation
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