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 Augustus = Livia | | | Julia [= Tiberius] Drusus Tiberius | | Agrippina = Germanicus, Claudius, Livilla = Drusus | | Gaius Caligula Tiberius Gemellus CLAUDIUS’ ACCESSION 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. Plau[a Urgulanilla 2. Aelia Pae[na (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. Plau[a Urgulanilla 2. Aelia Pae[na (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 Iden5ty in the Agrippina Roman World, p. 60) hcp://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 dis[nguished men and women mul[plied. 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 • Vic[ms include: Lucan, Seneca, Petronius Nero’s last days - revolt and suicide • 68 CE • Galba in Spain • qualis arfex pereo! (Suet. Nero 49) http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=ksydiva&logNo=140162874114&redirect=Dlog&widgetTypeCall=true! !.