Classical Studies 1000 Chapter Notes -Soup Kitchen, Pietas

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: David Lamari

Document Summary

With their clients ( cliens ), the nobility was successful at taking over: senators were barred (forbidden) from state contacts and restricted in oversea trading (cid:224)led to new equestrian class to emerge, which gaius gracchus grated this class a form of society by allowing those with 400k sesterces ($), the same amount a senator would have to qualify, to bid for tax collection in the province (go around and collect taxes and make profit off of it) and control the jury courts, augustus created a senatorial order, membership was his discretion. To avoid bad publicity, senators + families and equestrians were forbidden from public spectacles: augustus raised qualification for senators to 1 million sesterces, a decree (official order) in tiberius" time said a prospective equestrian and their 2 previous generations be free born, but otherwise, unknown whether membership was automatic or conferred (granted) by emperor, equestrian rank provided state a host of army officers + provincial officials (like prov. govnrs.