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

http://italianmonarchist.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/emperor-claudius.htm!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQe28wNe6SU!l!!

http://historywarsweapons.com/nero/!http://actoroscar.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/best-supporting-actor-1951-peter.html!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

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

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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

Mauretania

Britannia

Thracia

Claudius and the Senate

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

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Roman denarius coins showing Gauls (48BCE)

Claudius and the Senate !advisors of lower status: freedmen

Narcissus Callistus Pallas

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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)

Reputa[on 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)

Reputa[on 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 Agrippina

(Eve D'Ambra Art and Iden5ty in the 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 •  castra[ng and marrying Sporus • marrying Doryphorus (freedman)

The low life ac@vity

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, acacks 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-‐promo@onalist & ar@st

•  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 (Pala[ne 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 ar5fex pereo!

(Suet. Nero 49)

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