army * Gaius and the army * Claudius and the army * Nero and the army * Conclude with an overall summary of the armies’ influence. ANCIENT HISTORY ESSAY: JULIO CLAUDIANS; The Army held an increasing amount of influential power over each of the Julio-Claudian Emperors’; the army was the base of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The Principate was founded on the practice of maius imperium‚ supreme military potestas (power). Soldiers swore an
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The Julio-Claudians are the four emperors that succeeded Augustus following his death in AD14. The Julio-Claudians were Roman Nobles with an impressive and significant ancestry in the Roman Empire. It was during the Julio-Claudian reign that the Roman Empire reached an optimum level of power and wealth‚ and has been seen as the golden age of Roman arts and literature. The beginning of the Julio-Claudian dynasty was signified by the succession of Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar‚ most commonly known
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where the Ancient writers focus their attention to Nero‚ as his madness conforms with their endeavour to present the Julio-Claudian rulers as depraved and tyrannical. Portrayals of his madness include his murder of the imperial family and his persecution of Christians. His destruction of Rome continued until AD 68‚ where he committed assisted suicide‚ thus ending the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. Nero’s ruling of Rome‚ falls into two distinct halves. Nero’s first half is deemed to be the good half‚ where
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“Tiberius was the second emperor of Rome and a highly-successful soldier whose reputation for arrogance and debauchery is probably unfounded” (BBC History) Tiberius was a significant Julio-Claudian emperor who applied a great deal of contributions to the Roman Empire during his reign… The Julio-Claudian dynasty refers to the first five Roman Emperors: Augustus‚ Tiberius‚ Caligula (also known as Gaius)‚ Claudius‚ and Nero and the family to which they belonged. They ruled the Roman Empire from its
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doubt in modern historians thoughts that this utopia was one of the most prominent of the ancient era’s. One dynasty within this epoch stands out‚ as being one of the most provocative and influential was the Julio-Claudian dynasty. This period was introduced with the instigation of the emperor Julio Augustus‚ known as one of the most appreciated emperors in Roman history. After Augustus came the rulers Tiberius‚ Gaius Germanicus (Caligula)‚ Claudius and Nero. With every new ruler the amount of power
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his lavish living style. Secondly‚ his armies were restless. Nero was more interested in singing in the opera and playing the lyre than military conquest. Also‚ he did not have a successor. He had no children‚ so if he were to be overthrown‚ the Julio-Claudian dynasty would be permanently destroyed and an outside member would have to claim the throne. When the rebellion started‚ Nero hesitated to take any action other than making himself sole
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before her marriage to Claudius. She was born into the Julio-Claudian bloodline making her an Imperial woman of a noble dynasty‚ she was as a result of her family background reasonably wealthy and educated‚ she had the backing of the Roman Army as her father Germanicus was the commander of the 5th legion of the army in Germany and finally her two marriages which provided her with wealth and a son to be heir of the throne. The Julio-Claudian dynasty ran strong before and after the birth of Agrippina
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Augustus or his wife‚ made up the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The emperors of this dynasty had taken much of the senate’s power and established an imperial government that consisted of skillful‚ freed men. This way of ruling led to an increase in corrupt and selfish doings by the emperor. One ruler of this dynasty‚ Nero‚ murdered people that got in his way‚ which eventually led to a revolt by the Roman army and to Nero’s suicide in 68 C.E. Many years after the Julio-Claudian dynasty ended‚ the Pax Romana
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The Roman Empire began around 27 BC‚ the same time the Julio-Claudian Dynasty began. The Julio-Claudian Dynasty one of the things Suetonius writes about in his book The Twelve Caesars. Suetonius wasn’t the only historian during this time that wrote about this dynasty. A historian named Tacitus wrote about the 12 emperors in his historiography. Tacitus wrote “But the successes and reverses of the old Roman people have been recorded by famous historians; and fine intellects were not wanting to describe
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In this essay‚ I will explore how useful coins are to our understanding of the Principate. It is necessary to define the term “useful” in order to develop and discuss such ideas therefore I will be defining “useful” as the extent to which a coin can tell us something beyond the literary level. For instance‚ our ancient sources are proficient at giving us historical narratives but are often incapable of expressing popular sentiments. As such it is necessary to consider what a coin patently depicts
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