The Roman World: Lecture 18 Bad Emperors: Claudius and Nero

http://italianmonarchist.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/emperor-claudius.htm! http://historywarsweapons.com/nero/! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQe28wNe6SU! http://actoroscar.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/best-supporting-actor-1951-peter.html! l! http://toobworld.blogspot.com.au/2009/01/whos-on-ﬁrst-as-seen-on-tv.html! ! ! Assassination 41 CE

Plot of Praetorian Guard with Drusilla’s ex-husband Marcus Vinicius and Imperial freedman - Callistus see Dio Cassius 59.27 & Suetonius Gaius 58 !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0IW157-ElI! ! The Julio-Claudians

25 January 41 CE - appointed by the Praetorian Guard (Suetonius Deiﬁed Claudius 10)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQe28wNe6SU! Claudius’ expansionism

New Provinces: Mauretania, Britannia, Thracia

Britannia

Thracia

Mauretania Claudius and the Senate

Claudius allows Gauls into the senate - 48 CE (Tac. Annals 11.23-4)

Roman denarius coins showing Gauls (48BCE) Claudius and the Senate ! advisors of lower status: freedmen

Narcissus Callistus Pallas !

http://s3.amazonaws.com/suite101.com.prod/rticle_images/orig/1817396_com_pallasnars.jpg! Claudius’ wives

1. Plaua Urgulanilla 2. Aelia Paena (sister of Sejanus) 3. Valeria Messalina (daughter of his cousin; mother of Britannicus and Octavia)

Reputaon as uxorius ‘devoted to his wives’ see Suetonius Claudius 25-26, 29 Tacitus Annals 12.1 Messalina - executed 48 CE - bigamous marriage to Gaius Silius ‘the handsomest man in Rome’ (Tacitus Annals 11.12) Claudius’ wives 1. Plaua Urgulanilla 2. Aelia Paena (sister of Sejanus) 3. Valeria Messalina (daughter of his cousin; mother of Britannicus and Octavia) 4. Agrippina (daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina; Claudius’ niece; mother of Nero)

Reputaon as uxorius see Suetonius Claudius 25-26, 29 Tacitus Annals 12.1 http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Chronologies/Genealogies/Julio%20Claudian/JulCl%20Dynasty.htm! Agrippina Minor (the Younger) daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina; Claudius’ niece; mother of Nero; sister of Caligula; ‘Augusta’

Nero before 51 CE http://www.paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Chronologies/Genealogies/Julio%20Claudian/JulCl%20Dynasty.htm! Nero

54-59 CE quinquennium

http://anniecarlstedt.blogspot.com.au! ! Nero crowned by (Eve D'Ambra Art and Identy in the Agrippina Roman World, p. 60) hp://dangerfew.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/blog-post_22.html

Nero’s sex crimes

• Incest with mother • raping a Vestal Virgin • castrang and marrying Sporus • marrying Doryphorus (freedman) The low life acvity

Disguised as a slave, he ranged the streets, brothels, and taverns with his friends, who pilfered goods from shops and assaulted wayfarers… When it became known that the waylayer was the emperor, aacks on disnguished men and women mulplied. For, since disorderliness was tolerated, pseudo-Neros mobilized gangs and behaved similarly, with impunity. Rome by night came to resemble a conquered city. Tacitus Annals 13.24 The self-promoonalist & arst

• Tacitus Annals 15.34, Suetonius Nero 20-1 • Hellenophilia • Neropolis & Neroneus

http://www.ancientcoins.ca/RIC/RIC1/RIC1_Nero_1-200.htm! ! http://www.bajanreporter.com/2010/08/cruising-for-bruising-health-minister-of-barbados-in-mediterranean-while-qeh-burned-by-opposition-leaders-commentary-over-bamp-strike/! ! The Houses and the Fire

• Domus Transitoria (Palane and Esquiline ) • Fire: 64 CE • Domus Aurea • - Tac. Ann. 15.43

http://quercusalbavulpesruber.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/leisure-and-puritan-guilt.html! Pisonian conspiracy 65 CE

• Tac. Ann. 15.49 • Tigellinus • Vicms include: Lucan, Seneca, Petronius Nero’s last days - revolt and suicide

• 68 CE • Galba in Spain • qualis arfex pereo! (Suet. Nero 49)

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