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Reforms and Policies of the Julio-Claudian Princeps

Terms in this set (66)

Transferred election of magistrates from popular
assemblies to the Senate. (Political)
Tiberius
Replaced Augustus' consilium with one made
up of his own trusted friends plus 20 leading
citizens, no longer replaced annually. (Political)
Tiberius
Continued Augustus' policy of admitting only a limited number of provincials to the Senate. (Political)
Tiberius
Withdrawal to Capri allowed Sejanus undue influence over political affairs in Rome. (Political)
Tiberius
Returned the election of magistrates to the popular assemblies. (Political)
Gaius Caligula
Held continuous consulships, blocking career paths of others. (Political)
Gaius Caligula
Alienated the Senate by his autocratic ways. (Political)
Gaius Caligula
Weakened control of key areas of empire by his erratic foreign policy. (Political)
Gaius Caligula
Revived the censorship to count the citizens and revise the Senate lists. Encouraged some to resign and added a number of provincials (Political)
Claudius
Promoted deserving freedmen into the equestrian order. (Political)
Claudius
Gave Roman citizenship to provincial individuals and communities. (Political)
Claudius
Consilium replaced Senate as court for charges against high-ranking political offenders. These intra cubiculum (in secret) trials
were unpopular. (Political)
Claudius
Early years of his rule (with influence of his mother Agrippina and his advisors Seneca and Burrus) were efficient and
respectful toward the Senate. (Political)
Nero
Later alienated the Senate by his undignified public behaviour. (Political)
Nero
Became despotic, murdered family members, used exile or forced suicide to eliminate real and imagined conspirators in the Senate and the army. (Political)
Nero
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