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Emperor NERO at the Circus Maximus (Ancient Rome)
... pulled by four horses. Nero hitched 10 horses to his chariot to give himself a huge advantage over the other racers. ...
... pulled by four horses. Nero hitched 10 horses to his chariot to give himself a huge advantage over the other racers. ...
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... particularly important, as the coinage can be seen not only as a tool of trade, but also as a means for the emperor to transmit messages to his subjects, messages he considered important and wanted to highlight. While it is sometimes debated who was actually responsible for striking the coinage and ...
... particularly important, as the coinage can be seen not only as a tool of trade, but also as a means for the emperor to transmit messages to his subjects, messages he considered important and wanted to highlight. While it is sometimes debated who was actually responsible for striking the coinage and ...
From Princeps to Emperor
... prominent members of the imperial family and Germanicus’ faction. By the time Drusus realized that “Sejanus had secured his own camp,”38 Sejanus had effectively replaced him as the main political collaborator with Tiberius. As a result, in AD 23 he consolidated his own power by unifying the nin ...
... prominent members of the imperial family and Germanicus’ faction. By the time Drusus realized that “Sejanus had secured his own camp,”38 Sejanus had effectively replaced him as the main political collaborator with Tiberius. As a result, in AD 23 he consolidated his own power by unifying the nin ...
Augustus and the Architecture of Masculinity By Katie Thompson
... troops approached Alexandria, the capital city where Marc Antony was staying, both Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide, leaving their city to be take and Egypt finally to become part of the Roman Empire.25 The victory over Antony and the end of the civil wars provided Octavian with a very special ...
... troops approached Alexandria, the capital city where Marc Antony was staying, both Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide, leaving their city to be take and Egypt finally to become part of the Roman Empire.25 The victory over Antony and the end of the civil wars provided Octavian with a very special ...
Heliogabalus
... Alexianus kept away from Heliogabalus by Julia Mammaea; repeated plots detected in advance and foiled by Julia Maesa. Julia Mammaea distributing gold to the Praetorians. Heliogabalus attempts to strip Alexianus of imperial posts and title of Caesar. Praetorians demand to see Alexianus. Heliogabalus ...
... Alexianus kept away from Heliogabalus by Julia Mammaea; repeated plots detected in advance and foiled by Julia Maesa. Julia Mammaea distributing gold to the Praetorians. Heliogabalus attempts to strip Alexianus of imperial posts and title of Caesar. Praetorians demand to see Alexianus. Heliogabalus ...
Augustus, Justinian, and the Artistic Transformation of the Roman
... other. It is a matter of simplicity versus elaboration, and restraint versus unbridled power. I will observe and analyze selected works of art made in their image, isolate common features, and ultimately try to determine why the need for change was necessary. I have always been curious as to why the ...
... other. It is a matter of simplicity versus elaboration, and restraint versus unbridled power. I will observe and analyze selected works of art made in their image, isolate common features, and ultimately try to determine why the need for change was necessary. I have always been curious as to why the ...
AH2 option 2 Augustus
... of legislation and was assassinated on 15th March that year. Most of the people, above all the army, were looking for a single leader to take Caesar’s place. General sense that autocracy was the only realistic option? Survey career of Augustus (referred to by historians as Octavian during his early ...
... of legislation and was assassinated on 15th March that year. Most of the people, above all the army, were looking for a single leader to take Caesar’s place. General sense that autocracy was the only realistic option? Survey career of Augustus (referred to by historians as Octavian during his early ...
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... • Nero, after all, was Claudius's stepson, and although he was barely 16 (all of this happened before his 17th birthday), he was a few years older than Britannicus • This course of events makes Claudius's death suspicious HUI216 ...
... • Nero, after all, was Claudius's stepson, and although he was barely 16 (all of this happened before his 17th birthday), he was a few years older than Britannicus • This course of events makes Claudius's death suspicious HUI216 ...
exemplars and commentary
... Father “Republic? Son I think you mean Empire, Augustus was an intelligent leader as well as a wise politician but he did not care about Rome or its dying republic as much as he cared about gaining power”. Son “How can you say he didn’t care about Rome and its people, he restored much of the city in ...
... Father “Republic? Son I think you mean Empire, Augustus was an intelligent leader as well as a wise politician but he did not care about Rome or its dying republic as much as he cared about gaining power”. Son “How can you say he didn’t care about Rome and its people, he restored much of the city in ...
A rough schedule
... of legislation and was assassinated on 15th March that year. Most of the people, above all the army, were looking for a single leader to take Caesar’s place. General sense that autocracy was the only realistic option? Survey career of Augustus (referred to by historians as Octavian during his early ...
... of legislation and was assassinated on 15th March that year. Most of the people, above all the army, were looking for a single leader to take Caesar’s place. General sense that autocracy was the only realistic option? Survey career of Augustus (referred to by historians as Octavian during his early ...
Law Reform in the Ancient World: Did the Emperor Augustus
... were able to rotate through the various political offices at Rome.23 This system might have worked while Rome was still a regional Mediterranean power,but in its last decades of existence,it ceased to function effectively at all.24 Rather,it broke down into a series of civil wars,plots,and acts of v ...
... were able to rotate through the various political offices at Rome.23 This system might have worked while Rome was still a regional Mediterranean power,but in its last decades of existence,it ceased to function effectively at all.24 Rather,it broke down into a series of civil wars,plots,and acts of v ...
Abstract That the emperor Hadrian was a Philhellene
... was fortunate in the set of circumstances he inherited that more easily enabled his proHellenic policies. Political contact between Greece and Rome began in the third century BC, so by Hadrian’s time, the Greek East was accustomed to Roman hegemony.14 Rome tended to rule its provinces with a lack ...
... was fortunate in the set of circumstances he inherited that more easily enabled his proHellenic policies. Political contact between Greece and Rome began in the third century BC, so by Hadrian’s time, the Greek East was accustomed to Roman hegemony.14 Rome tended to rule its provinces with a lack ...
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... replicated by subjects. One feature of the Roman Principate, then, seems to be that it was manifest throughout the empire through the use of a shared vocabulary and imagery. We may label the totality of these expressions, both visual and verbal, both expressed by emperor and subjects, and both in th ...
... replicated by subjects. One feature of the Roman Principate, then, seems to be that it was manifest throughout the empire through the use of a shared vocabulary and imagery. We may label the totality of these expressions, both visual and verbal, both expressed by emperor and subjects, and both in th ...
Antoninus
... For when he began to bend with old age, he wore a truss made of splints of lime wood, to allow him to walk erect. For evidently it was his decision that Romans should have an emperor who should walk upright. Antoninus had no surviving sons. His only surviving daughter Faustina the younger eventually ...
... For when he began to bend with old age, he wore a truss made of splints of lime wood, to allow him to walk erect. For evidently it was his decision that Romans should have an emperor who should walk upright. Antoninus had no surviving sons. His only surviving daughter Faustina the younger eventually ...
OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE TO CAESAR B.F. Harris The ancients
... which recruits swore when they first joined their unit. Its terms were ‘not to depart in order to take flight or through fear, nor to retreat from the line ex cept to recover or obtain a weapon, strike a foe or rescue a friend’. It will be noticed later that military oaths were an important constit ...
... which recruits swore when they first joined their unit. Its terms were ‘not to depart in order to take flight or through fear, nor to retreat from the line ex cept to recover or obtain a weapon, strike a foe or rescue a friend’. It will be noticed later that military oaths were an important constit ...
Studies of power: The Augustine Principate
... many powers and titles. It was during Augustus’ First Settlement with the Senate in 27BC that many of these powers were granted. Cassius wrote, “And so the power both of the people and of the Senate passed entirely into the possession of Augustus” (source 2). He also states that “In order that they ...
... many powers and titles. It was during Augustus’ First Settlement with the Senate in 27BC that many of these powers were granted. Cassius wrote, “And so the power both of the people and of the Senate passed entirely into the possession of Augustus” (source 2). He also states that “In order that they ...
An Introduction
... is generally regarded as having lasted from about 490 BC to the death in 323 BC of Alexander the Great. The Romans were not great innovators. They learned what they could from others and then applied that knowledge to their own needs and purposes. They were dedicated and often ruthless in their purs ...
... is generally regarded as having lasted from about 490 BC to the death in 323 BC of Alexander the Great. The Romans were not great innovators. They learned what they could from others and then applied that knowledge to their own needs and purposes. They were dedicated and often ruthless in their purs ...
Molding Minds: The Roman Use of the Cuirassed Statue in Defining
... originally of this deity or of an important mortal.2 On the breastplate itself the musculature of the human torso was often imitated to a flattering decree (i.e. large pectorals, chiseled abdominal muscles, etc.).3 Such glamorization adheres to the nature of idealization in ancient sculpture. Tradit ...
... originally of this deity or of an important mortal.2 On the breastplate itself the musculature of the human torso was often imitated to a flattering decree (i.e. large pectorals, chiseled abdominal muscles, etc.).3 Such glamorization adheres to the nature of idealization in ancient sculpture. Tradit ...
SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS – aims
... In addition, a number of temporary camps have been convincingly identified as Severan. At Ardoch in Perthshire, for instance, two large camps (covering 25ha and 55ha) - which post-date the annexe of a fort in commission until the mid-2nd century - seem to represent successive seasons of activity, an ...
... In addition, a number of temporary camps have been convincingly identified as Severan. At Ardoch in Perthshire, for instance, two large camps (covering 25ha and 55ha) - which post-date the annexe of a fort in commission until the mid-2nd century - seem to represent successive seasons of activity, an ...
augustus Q - Orion Books
... a particular fascination for everything about ancient Rome. You cannot study Roman history without coming across Augustus and his legacy. He was the first emperor, the man who finally replaced a Republic which had lasted for almost half a millennium with a veiled monarchy. The system he created gave ...
... a particular fascination for everything about ancient Rome. You cannot study Roman history without coming across Augustus and his legacy. He was the first emperor, the man who finally replaced a Republic which had lasted for almost half a millennium with a veiled monarchy. The system he created gave ...
Diocletian Biography
... Galerius arrived in the city later in March. According to Lactantius, he came armed with plans to reconstitute the tetrarchy, force Diocletian to step down, and fill the Imperial office with men compliant to his will. Through coercion and threats, he eventually convinced Diocletian to comply with hi ...
... Galerius arrived in the city later in March. According to Lactantius, he came armed with plans to reconstitute the tetrarchy, force Diocletian to step down, and fill the Imperial office with men compliant to his will. Through coercion and threats, he eventually convinced Diocletian to comply with hi ...
Augustus - Krystallnacht
... the people of Rome. In the senate chamber inside the Theater of Pompey, Gaius Julius Caesar lay in a pool of his own blood. He had been assassinated. During the previous disastrous civil wars he had been opposed by his arch-rival Pompey and by most of the senators, but he had prevailed, and gone on ...
... the people of Rome. In the senate chamber inside the Theater of Pompey, Gaius Julius Caesar lay in a pool of his own blood. He had been assassinated. During the previous disastrous civil wars he had been opposed by his arch-rival Pompey and by most of the senators, but he had prevailed, and gone on ...
Exempla Augusto: Allusions and Warnings in Ab Urbe Condita, I
... understood even at a later date that there was some sort of connection between Augustus and Rome’s great founder. Livy also mentions that Romulus obtained sole power through force and violence (1.7.3), that Rome had been strengthened by the dual attributes of war and peace, and that the power of Rom ...
... understood even at a later date that there was some sort of connection between Augustus and Rome’s great founder. Livy also mentions that Romulus obtained sole power through force and violence (1.7.3), that Rome had been strengthened by the dual attributes of war and peace, and that the power of Rom ...
Internal Assessment Resource
... “I found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.i” Augustus Caesar (63BC – 14AD) became the undisputed ruler of Rome when he defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium. During his long reign he brought about peace and stability in an era known as the Pax Romana (The Roman ...
... “I found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.i” Augustus Caesar (63BC – 14AD) became the undisputed ruler of Rome when he defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium. During his long reign he brought about peace and stability in an era known as the Pax Romana (The Roman ...
History of the Roman Empire
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The history of the Roman Empire covers the history of Ancient Rome from the fall of the Roman Republic in 27 BC until the abdication of the last Emperor in 476 AD. Rome had begun expanding shortly after the founding of the Republic in the 6th century BC, though didn't expand outside of Italy until the 3rd century BC. Civil war engulfed the Roman state in the mid 1st century BC, first between Julius Caesar and Pompey, and finally between Octavian and Mark Antony. Antony was defeated at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. In 27 BC the Senate and People of Rome made Octavian imperator (""commander"") thus beginning the Principate (the first epoch of Roman imperial history, usually dated from 27 BC to 284 AD), and gave him the name Augustus (""the venerated""). The success of Augustus in establishing principles of dynastic succession was limited by his outliving a number of talented potential heirs: the Julio-Claudian dynasty lasted for four more emperors—Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—before it yielded in 69 AD to the strife-torn Year of Four Emperors, from which Vespasian emerged as victor. Vespasian became the founder of the brief Flavian dynasty, to be followed by the Nerva–Antonine dynasty which produced the ""Five Good Emperors"": Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and the philosophically inclined Marcus Aurelius. In the view of the Greek historian Dio Cassius, a contemporary observer, the accession of the emperor Commodus in 180 AD marked the descent ""from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron""—a famous comment which has led some historians, notably Edward Gibbon, to take Commodus' reign as the beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire.In 212, during the reign of Caracalla, Roman citizenship was granted to all freeborn inhabitants of the Empire. But despite this gesture of universality, the Severan dynasty was tumultuous—an emperor's reign was ended routinely by his murder or execution—and following its collapse, the Roman Empire was engulfed by the Crisis of the Third Century, a period of invasions, civil strife, economic disorder, and plague. In defining historical epochs, this crisis is sometimes viewed as marking the transition from Classical Antiquity to Late Antiquity. Diocletian (reigned 284–305) brought the Empire back from the brink, but declined the role of princeps and became the first emperor to be addressed regularly as domine, ""master"" or ""lord"". This marked the end of the Principate, and the beginning of the Dominate. Diocletian's reign also brought the Empire's most concerted effort against the perceived threat of Christianity, the ""Great Persecution"". The state of absolute monarchy that began with Diocletian endured until the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476.Diocletian divided the empire into four regions, each ruled by a separate Emperor (the Tetrarchy). Confident that he fixed the disorders that were plaguing Rome, he abdicated along with his co-emperor, and the Tetrarchy soon collapsed. Order was eventually restored by Constantine, who became the first emperor to convert to Christianity, and who established Constantinople as the new capital of the eastern empire. During the decades of the Constantinian and Valentinian dynasties, the Empire was divided along an east–west axis, with dual power centers in Constantinople and Rome. The reign of Julian, who attempted to restore Classical Roman and Hellenistic religion, only briefly interrupted the succession of Christian emperors. Theodosius I, the last emperor to rule over both East and West, died in 395 AD after making Christianity the official religion of the Empire.The Roman Empire began to disintegrate in the early 5th century as Germanic migrations and invasions overwhelmed the capacity of the Empire to assimilate the migrants and fight off the invaders. The Romans were successful in fighting off all invaders, most famously Attila the Hun, though the Empire had assimilated so many Germanic peoples of dubious loyalty to Rome that the Empire started to dismember itself. Most chronologies place the end of the Western Roman empire in 476, when Romulus Augustulus was forced to abdicate to the Germanic warlord Odoacer. By placing himself under the rule of the Eastern Emperor, rather than naming himself Emperor (as other Germanic chiefs had done after deposing past Emperors), Odoacer ended the Western Empire by ending the line of Western Emperors. The eastern Empire exercised diminishing control over the west over the course of the next century. The empire in the East—known today as the Byzantine Empire, but referred to in its time as the ""Roman Empire"" or by various other names—ended in 1453 with the death of Constantine XI and the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.