Name and Birth and Source of Famous Works. Events and Changes. Divided the empire 1 between two rulers and two capitals (Nicæa and Milan). Each ruler (Augustus) had an assistant (Cæsar), wore a diadem, and required his subjects to approach him prostrate, adoring his divinity; appointed consuls without consent of Senate; general persecution of Christians; subdued rebellion in Egypt. Among the events and changes given in the imperial list, select those which were constitutional. What was the tendency of these changes? In which century were these changes most radical? In whom did they culminate? What effect had they upon the equality of the inhabitants of the empire? What classes gained in equality? Under what forms did the empire exist up to the time of Diocletian? How will you describe the form of government established by him? What was the final basis of the imperial power? How proved to be so from these lists? What remark can you make of the hereditary 1 The Western division comprised Italy, Gaul, Britain, Spain, Africa; the Eastern, Greece, Macedonia, Egypt, Asia Minor. (See map.) nature of the imperial office? Illustrate. Was such a change for the worse or better? Why? What part of the empire was represented by the emperors as a whole? Prove it. How were the provinces better off under the emperors than under the republic? What strikes you as the great fault of the constitution? What light does the origin of the emperors throw on the equality of men in the empire? of equality in the earlier as compared with the later years of the period? 3. List of Great Men of the Pagan Empire, exclusive of Emperors. a. Men of the Augustan Age and the First Century. (Men of the Augustan Age marked *.) Josephus. and contemporary manners. Jew of most illustrious Historian of Judæa. Greek. lineage, |