Assess The Impact Of Nero’s Principate on Rome Nero was 17 when he ascended the throne in AD 54‚ after the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of his adopted father‚ Claudius. During the first few years of reign‚ Nero ruled Rome with efficiency and effectiveness‚ with the guidance of those closest to him. However‚ it is generally agreed that Nero’s instantaneous descent commenced when he committed matricide 59 AD. It is during this period‚ where the Ancient writers focus their attention
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Against: Soon after the death of Augustus the following first citizens were not successful as Augustus was. And especially Cladius who ruled from 41A.D to 54A.D More and more responsibilities given to the senate were taken back by the above rulers. Claudius instituted a imperial bureaucracy. “As the Julio-Claudian successors of Augustus began to behave openly like real rulers rather than first citizens of the state.”(Spielvogel‚ 2004) This clearly emphasized the need of a republic during the times
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Boudicca and The Iceni Revolt Boudicca‚ Queen of the Iceni Tribe‚ organised an army of Celtic Tribes and led the revolt against the Romans. Boudicca was the wife of King Prasutagus‚ the king of the Iceni tribe. Prasutagus died in 60 AD and by his will‚ the kingdom was left to his daughters and the roman emperor Nero as co-heirs in an attempt to keep his kingdom and family safe and out of harms way. As his daughter’s were too young to rule the kingdom of Iceni on there own‚ Boudicca assumed
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however‚ throughout his reign‚ Augustus needed a male heir that could inherit his power (Hurley‚ 2008). Octavian’s marriage Livia in 37 BC helped manage this problem of succession by providing him with two-step sons from her first marriage to Tiberius Claudius Nero. The means in which Livia was able to certify her sons rise to principate varies. Some Ancient writers believe that she was ruthless and possibly had a secrete hand in the taking down of other possible successors while other talk about predominately
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role of a Roman matron. In contrast to this‚ modern historians consider the context of her time and approach her with a neutral attitude. However‚ most of the historians present her according to three main stereotypes- the seducer and murderer of Claudius‚ the scheming and dominating mother figure or the imperial woman who goes beyond her matronly and aristocratic role. Tacitus‚ an ancient historian‚ was the closest to Agrippina’s time and was hostile towards her since he disliked the principate
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You are Brutus at the end of Act 4. Write your thoughts. I feel somewhat guilty for the way I spoke to Cassius; but I believe he deserved it. I am overwhelmed by guilt that I stabbed Caesar and I still cannot believe that I agreed to do so. It now makes Cassius my one and only brother in this world. He was totally wrong in what he was claiming to be correct‚ I mean‚ who doesn’t know Cassius has an itchy palm? What I hate the most though is that he always tries to cause fights with me‚ especially
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Explain how and why Agrippina the younger was killed Julia Agrippina or known better as Agrippina Minor or most famously Agrippina the younger was one of the most powerful and inferential women in the entire roman empire. Her power and her influence was one of her most remarketing features and it is also those features which become her demise and the main cause of her murder. Agrippina the younger who has been portrayed as the most controversial woman in all of roman history has been seen is mainly
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------------------------------------------------- Biography Early life A member of the Antonia clan (gens)‚ Antony was born most likely on January 14 of 83 BC.[1] According to Suetonius‚ he shared his birthday with Drusus‚ the father of the emperor Claudius‚ who was Antony ’s grandson through maternal lineage.[2] Another source[citation needed] states that his birth coincided with Sulla ’s landing at Brundisium in the spring of 83 BC‚[3] and Plutarch[4] gives his year of birth as either 86 or 83 BC
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Caligula was the popular nickname of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (31 August AD 12 – 24 January AD 41)‚ Roman Emperor (AD 37–41). Caligula was a member of the house of rulers conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Caligula’s father Germanicus‚ the nephew and adopted son of Emperor Tiberius‚ was a very successful general and one of Rome’s most beloved public figures. The young Gaius earned the nickname "Caligula" (meaning "little soldier’s boot"‚ the diminutive form of caliga
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Gaul Wealthy Family From the Provinces . He is an aristocrat which means that he would not need funding from anyone else‚ so he would not be biased in that way. An expert in Rhetoric- He influences the subtly‚ we think that we make up our own mind. Claudius is very rarely the subject of active verbs. Tacitus is manipulative‚ he is an artist. He puts his rhetorical training to good uses. He pretends to balance things. Senator – Under the rule of Vespasian. He has vast (inside) information as he has
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