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15 Οκτ 2024 · Senate, in ancient Rome, the governing and advisory council that proved to be the most permanent element in the Roman constitution. It developed under the monarchy as an advisory council; after the abolition of the monarchy in 509 BC, it became the advisory council of the consuls (the two highest magistrates).
In Rome, the body of the senate and senatorial priesthoods helped to maintain its religious power; across the empire senators defined their magisterial powers by following the model of emperors and relying on the piety of sacri ce and benefactions.
Presenting a new collection of historical, epigraphic, prosopographic and material evidence, it argues that as Augustus turned to religion to legitimize his powers, senators in turn also came to negotiate their own power, as well as that of the emperor, partly in religious terms.
Recently, scholars have begun studying the Roman Senate as a working assembly and looking at the Senate’s role in the Roman state, and they have come up with some important results.
12 Δεκ 2016 · Roman senators were the city's most experienced public servants and society's elite, mostly from the aristocratic patrician class. Their numbers changed over time and was not fixed but there were probably between 300 and 600 senators at any one time.
At the start of the fourth century, the senatorial order was composed of the relatively few men – perhaps some six hundred or so – who were members of the senate of the city of Rome.
The basis of the Senate's place in the political system, the concept of auctoritas, will be highlighted, a defining characteristic of Republican political culture. The Senate became an autonomous political organ, whose membership would from then on be stable and whose authority unquestionable.
