Rome and its development under Augustus and his successors

Abstract

In order to understand the preferences of the age one must return to the ideological background to Augustus' dealing with the city of Rome. Building had been a prominent part of the self-presentation of the Roman elite since time immemorial, and Augustus needed to excel at all the activities which conferred auctoritas; so he could not but display his power in this way, could not refrain from adding his monumenta to the accumulated record of the great men of the past which could be read in the architecture of Rome. Rome's periphery had undergone various evolutions with the changes in the nature and size of the population and the availability of wealth and food. The dialogue of public religion is the matrix which held together the highly disparate elements of Roman society. The institution effect of the Principate was to increase the privileges of the part of the population which was present in the vicinity of the city of Rome.

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