P.Clodius Posted March 25, 2005 Report Share Posted March 25, 2005 Which title do you consider to have the most potency? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primus Pilus Posted March 25, 2005 Report Share Posted March 25, 2005 They all have their role to fill, but it was the role of the Tribune that caused so much trouble in the Republican period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.Clodius Posted March 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2005 I don't see the power of the Tribune as a source of trouble in the Republican period. It was the Senate that was the source of all the troubles. The Tribuneship was the focal point of popular discontent, the voice, and the power to confront obstinacy and corruption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primus Pilus Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 Sorry, I wasn't clear... troublesome from a perspective of maintaining the status quo. Regardless its power helped pave the way for the breakdown of the Republic starting with the Gracchi... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.Clodius Posted March 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 Out of all those There are two which standout powerwise. Tribunicia Potestas and Imperium Maius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeke Posted March 26, 2005 Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 Power of Pontifex Maximus.....he used religion of the Roman state to say he was a god. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P.Clodius Posted March 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2005 Augustus NEVER said he was a God Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeke Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 Well latter Emperors did...if I am not mistaken. Zeke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primus Pilus Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 Though he did say he was the son of a god, and the people believed it so to them... it was true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Aelia Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 I'd just read that Augustus was not pointing it out too clearly that the Republic was dead and that Rome had become a monarchy, that's why he used always the title princeps meaning the first among equals. He still refered to the Senate which was still influential though not as much as before. Instead of two leaders, the consuls, which were elected for one year, he was now the sole head of the Senate for his lifetime. Therefore I would say that Princeps Senatus was his most important title. Was there ever a Roman Emperor who was considered already during his lifetime as God? Many of them, even Augustus were deified after their death. The Romans always looked down on the oriental kingdoms who declared their kings as gods like the Egyptian Pharaohs etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primus Pilus Posted March 27, 2005 Report Share Posted March 27, 2005 There were some who declared themselves gods while living, in some form or another... Caligula, Commodus, Elagabalus... but official recognition from the Senate and the people would be a different matter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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