1st and 2nd Peter The Christians around the time I Peter was written were undergoing some intense persecution. Socially they were shunned‚ abused‚ insulted and ridiculed‚ and Peter realized that the circumstances were getting worse. Nero was Emperor of Rome during the time I Peter was written. He oversaw the persecutions of Christians. Peter wrote this letter to offer encouragement to Christians suffering this persecution. (I Peter 2:18-20) As a result the church in Jerusalem was being scattered
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Firstly‚ Tertullian mentions the hope for peace and claims that Christianity is not against the emperors and ministers. After‚ he criticizes the cruelties which made by the Roman Empire to the Christians and threathens that the more they are cut down by the state‚ the more they grow in number (Apology‚ 197 A.D.). One of the main point in this source
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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 as
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of her influence and power. Her family’s position of power enabled her to be more influential than most other women of her era. She was born of both Julian and Claudian bloodlines. She was a descendant of the Emperor Augustus‚ nice and later wife of Claudius‚ sister of Gaius and mother of Nero. Her mother‚ Agrippina the Elder‚ and father‚ Germanicus‚ were well respected figures in Roman society‚ which also contributed to her importance. Her first two marriages to Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Gaius
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family bloodline as an incentive for marriage. During her years of marriage she was greatly influential‚ received many privileges and secure the succession by convincing Claudius to adopt Nero. The death of Messalina opened a new window of opportunity for Agrippina to achieve her life’s ambition of watching her son‚ Nero‚ ascend the throne. To do this‚ she had Lucius Vitellius‚ convince the senate to change their laws on incest‚ as Claudius was her uncle. According to the ancient sources‚ Tacitus and
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“The realm of the Dying Emperor”‚ shows that how modern Japanese people take the emperor’s death differently. The author experienced the death of emperor in 1989. I assume that many of her ages or higher will admire his death‚ because they’ve lived economically glorious time the emperor made. Also‚ the emperor hadn’t been exposed by media or people‚ which makes more deific of him. If the emperor Hirohito was more often exposed by people like the emperor Akihito‚ the emperor Hirohito’s divine character
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positive attitudes‚ there comes some negative ones towards technology too. This means that people did not take the new inventions for granted and just ignored them. This is best demonstrated by Seneca‚ an upper-class Roman philosopher and adviser to Emperor Nero‚ who says that he believed that tools were not invented by wise men. He says this because it was not important to him and he did not pay attention to which invention came first. This is further explained by Huan Guan‚ a Han government official
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Agrippina the Younger had four main factors that highly influenced her power 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
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most illustrious patrician families with imperial connections. Her father Germanicus had risen through the cursus honoroum to two consulships and the proconsulships of Germany and Gaul. Germanicus’s brother was the brother was the future Claudian emperor‚ Claudius. Agrippina’s family lineage was therefore immensely prestigious. Her mother is quoted twice by Tacitus asserting her descent from the blood of the divine Augustus. According to revisionist Barret‚ Agrippina would have learnt from her mother
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Within While reading The Burning of Rome‚ any person with simple observation skill may perceive Tacitus’ purpose. The readers should take what he says against Nero‚ and try to believe everything he says so they turn against Nero. Tacitus believes the readers should think that Nero started the fire that engulfed Tome. He wants reader to think of Nero as a corrupt‚ manipulative human being‚ and overall the worst‚ most evil leader that ever ruled over Rome. Tacitus uses the rhetorical strategies of pathos
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