The Roman Period 2

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The Roman Period

• The Augustan Age And The Pax Romana
  • it took Octavian two years after hus victory at Actium in 31 B.C.E. to eliminate remaining pockets of resistance and to work out a system to reconcile his rule with Roman tarditions
  • The power resisted on three factors
    • his immense wealth, which he used to secure support
    • his vast following among the surviving elites as well as among the populares
    • his total command of the army
  • Augustus
    • He was the first and greatest emperor
    • under Augustus and his successors the empire enjoyed two centuries of stability and peace, the Pax Romana, or "Peace of Rome"
• Diving Augustus
  • Augustus's renewal(重建） of Rome rested on a religious reform
  • some measures
    • 1. restored numerous temples and revived ancient Roman cults
    • 2. established a serious of public religious festivals, reformed priesthoods
    • 3. encouraged citizens to participate in the traditional cults of Rome
  • his goals in all these religious reforms were twofold
    • 1. an important goal was Augustu's promotion of his own cult
    • 2. to restore traditional Roman virtues, especially within the family
  • to restore the declining population of free Italians
    • Augustus encouraged marriage, procreation(生育） ，and the firm control of husbands over wives
• Poetry and Patronage
  • he actively patronized those writers who shared his conservative religious and ethical values
  • he use his power to censor(审查） and solience writers whom he consideed immoral
• Religious Form the East
  • Generally, Rome tiolerated these alien cults as long as they could be assimilated(同化） into the cult ofthe Roman gods
• The Origins of Christanity
  • The already complex landscape of the Jewish religious world became further complicated by the brief career
• Spreading the Faith
  • Christianity spread beyond its origin as a Jewish sect because of the work of one man, Paul
  • Paul set out to spread his message to many countries
    • Asia Minor
    • Greece
    • Rome