numa pompilius took power by disobeying the roman senate.
numa pompilius took power by disobeying the roman senate.
who took power by disobeying the roman senate?
numa pompilius
the peaceful co-existence of senatorial and barbarian rule continued until the ostrogothic leader theodahad began an protest against emperor justinian i and took the senators as hostages. several senators were executed in 552 as a revenge for the death of the ostrogothic king totila. after rome was recaptured by the imperial (byzantine) army, the senate was restored, but the institution (like classical rome itself) had been mortally weakened by the long war between the byzantines and the ostrogoths. many senators had been killed and many of those who had fled to the east chose to remain there thanks to favorable legislation passed by emperor justinian, who however abolished virtually all senatorial offices in italy. the importance of the roman senate thus declined rapidly. in 578 and again in 580, the senate sent envoys to constantinople who delivered 3000 pounds of gold as a gift to the new emperor tiberius ii constantinus along with a plea for help against the langobards who had invaded italy ten years earlier. pope gregory i, in a sermon from 593 (senatus deest, or.18), lamented the almost complete disappearance of the senatorial order and the decline of the prestigious institution. it is not clearly known when the roman senate disappeared in the west, but it is known from gregorian register that the senate acclaimed new statues of emperor phocas and empress leontia in 603. the institution must have vanished by 630 when the curia was transformed into a church by pope honorius i. the senate did continue to exist in the eastern roman empire's capital constantinople, however, having been instituted there during the reign of constantine i. the byzantine senate survived until at least the mid-14th century, before the ancient institution finally vanished from history.
senate of the roman empire
bullet::::- 'observations on—i. the answer of m. l'abbé de vertot to the late earl stanhope's inquiry concerning the senate of ancient rome, dated december 1719. ii. a dissertation upon the constitution of the roman senate, by a gentleman; published in 1743. iii. a treatise on the roman senate, by dr. c. middleton; published in 1747. iv. an essay on the roman senate, by dr. t. chapman; published in 1750,' london, 1758; dedicated to speaker richard onslow. this work was answered by edward spelman in an anonymous pamphlet entitled 'a short review on mr. hooke's observations,' 1758. william bowyer published 'an apology for some of mr. hooke's observations concerning the roman senate,' london, 1758.
nathaniel hooke