He received hostile replies from the Senate because he jumped through hoops to get these reforms passed by approaching the Assembly before the Senate, which was not extremely uncommon, but by also voting Octavius out of his tribune after he vetoed the law. ...
In modern day politics, the art of Political manipulation is very popular. In the case of the Rome Empire's history the art is well practiced by Mark Anthony during the second triumvirate era. The Romans during the triumvirate era and their perception of what we in the contemporary world call &apos...
Of the poor, the poet Juvenal would write: with no vote to sell, their motto is "couldn't care less,"" time was when their plebiscite elected generals, heads of state, commanders of legions: but now they've pulled in their horns, there are only two things that concern them: bread and circuses. " The emperor Augustus, also known as Julius Octavius, was well aware of the risk of facing protests from the plebeians and was therefore, keen on to keep them happy enough and reasonably well fed so that they would not riot. ...
By the reign of Augustus, the city of Rome had changed drastically from what it was just after the conclusion of the Third Punic War. Furthermore, it was drastically different from what it had been at the city's inception. When Augustus took control of the new empire, he needed to reassert to the pe...
