Abstract:

According to Rome city founding legend, this city is founded by Romus and Romulus brothers in Palatio Hill in753 BC. Rome city come into being a Kingdom by developing and growing.  Rome Kingdom transformed into Rome Republic in 510 BC. Rome Republic transformed into emperorship in 27 AD. Caesar attempted to control his government due to crises and civil war in recent years of Republic. But oligarchic conservative structure protested against dictatorship and stop Caesar from handling government by himself.  Octavianus (Augustus) abolished Republican regime and provided to shifting to Emperorship in the crisis atmosphere after Caesar’s death. He obtained government and authorization by saying that he only aimed to protect Republic (B.C.27-A.D.14). Rome experienced some political, societal, economic, religion, legal and social domains in the transition period from republic to emperorship. Rome’s political structure started to come under the domination of a single one compared to the past. Long standing wars and civil wars caused societal crises. Rome’s governing structure started to dissolve and republic regime remained incapable for solving problems of society in the current crisis environment. Alteration and transformations came into being in the political and administrative structure of Rome in this period. Administrative and political alterations in Rome in the transition period from republic to emperorship will be analyzed by taking into consideration these administrative alterations and transformations. Additionally, some sort of alterations and transformations came into being in Rome’s societal structure in this transition period. Additionally political and cultural variations in Augustus period affected Rome’s societal structure significantly. From these reasons especially Augustus periods variations and transformations are tried to be investigated.

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