Gladiatorial combat quickly became popular, in fact Caesar owned so many gladiators that the afraid Senate passed a law limiting the number of gladiators a private citizen may employ to 320 pairs. ... From the time of Augustus all non citizen criminals were sentenced to combat fighting. ...
Augustus knew that he had to play down the fact that he was king in all but name, after all, nearing this position had cost Caesar his life. ... Augustus' own conservative attitudes helped to keep up the Republican Façade and the support of the senators. Augustus tried to bring back dignity and responsibility to the senate. ... However, according to Tacitus, who states 'Under Augustus there was no opposition' the remaining senate failed to oppose Augustus, probably as any senators with opposing views had been removed. ... Hence, it could be argued that under Augustus, the senat...
Domitian The history of Caesars that Suetonius provides us with is one of the most important pieces of work regarding the specific Caesars he wrote about. So much so that almost all historians today refer to Suetonius when discussing one of the twelve Caesars that he covers. ... Many historians have worked to correct his biases, but in many cases his biases can show how a majority of Romans may have felt or believed in regards to the Caesars. ... Especially in enforcing the Lex Julia de adultriss of Augustus. ...
The emperor Augustus sought to preserve the pietas and virtus of the knight class and Roman senate by forbidding them to participate in gladiatorial combat. ... The top gladiators, charioteers and actors were folk heroes, and the power of their universal appeal was recognised and exploited by politicians and emperors such as Julius Caesar, Augustus and Nero, who used games to manipulate a sometimes volatile public, whether to pacify or reassure at times of crisis or to achieve political ends. ...
