Agrippina’s powerful family lineage allowed her to excel beyond the role of women in Roman society and become successful in the terms of wealth and power. Agrippina’s achievements include the marrying Claudius‚ successfully removing others‚ ascension of Nero‚ and having honors and powers given beyond other women of Rome. It is difficult to assess the extent of Agrippina’s achievements because of the gender bias that derives from the Ancient sources Dio Cassius‚ Suetonius and Tacitus and the re-assessment
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Introduction Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus (b. 10 BC‚ d. 54 A.D.; emperor‚ 41-54 A.D.) was the third emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. His reign represents a turning point in the history of the Principate for a number of reasons‚ not the least for the manner of his accession and the implications it carried for the nature of the office. During his reign he promoted administrators who did not belong to the senatorial or equestrian classes‚ and was later vilified by authors who did. He followed
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el In “Twelve Caesars”‚ Suetonius writes the anecdotal memoirs of the 12 kings of the Roman Empire‚ starting from Julius Caesar all the way till Domitian. His work is unparalleled in detail and is a rich primary source on the history of Rome. Suetonius writes a detailed memoir about each of the kings‚ outlining in vivid detail their actions‚ their lives‚ their accession to the seat of power and their deaths. There seems to be a general mix of virtue and vice in the character of these kings. Using
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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 formation‚ in the second half of the 1st century 27 BC‚ until AD 68‚ when the last of the line‚ Nero‚ committed suicide. The ancient historical writers‚ Suetonius and Tacitus‚ write from the point of view of the Roman senatorial aristocracy‚ and portray the Emperors
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The bagpipe‚ though still widely used and recognized‚ is one of mankind’s oldest musical instruments. The bagpipe’s early ancestors can be traced all the way back to ancient Egypt‚ Babylonia‚ as well as Mesopotamia. Those early versions were reed-sounding single-pipes or double-pipes. These pipes are also known chanters. The basic means of sound producing comes from the vibrating of a reed or double reed on the chanter under the pressure of the breath. The double-pipes are thought by some to have
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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 and wealth in the city swelled‚ some even say that it was the golden age of Roman literature and arts. Each of these power broker’s have one person in common‚ apart from imperial extravagance and notoriety
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He was a close friend‚ son-in-law‚ lieutenant and defence minister to Octavian‚ the future Emperor Caesar Augustus and father-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius‚ maternal grandfather of the Emperor Caligula‚ and maternal great-grandfather of the Emperor Nero. He was responsible for most of Octavian’s military victories‚ most notably winning the naval Battle of Actium against the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt. | Seneca the YoungerLucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca;
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Christ as god. They all blind themselves by oath. Romans would use torture in interrogations of slaves Nero- Corrupt emperor with lavish parties with prostitutes. Had one crazy party Fire set in Rome‚ and many people had thought that Nero set the fire during the time of the fire he wasn’t in Rome but during the conflagration he was singing a song about the destruction of Troy. Nero was blamed. People are angry but he tries to make up for it. He offered gardens for spectacles of torture
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movement of "Atheist." Atheists were Christians that rejected Rome’s pagan pantheon and decided to worship one invisible god. At the time when the persecutions of Christians started to begin the emperor of Rome was Nero‚ and Nero was somewhat behind it all. For example‚ In A.D 64‚ Emperor Nero started a fire that devastated Rome then put all the blame on the Christians so that he could kill many of them. During about A.D. 111‚ the emperor of Rome was now emperor Trajan. During emperor Trajan’s rule the
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history books‚ children but DO NOT watch the movie.) The next emperor in line‚ Claudius‚ banished Seneca‚ sending him away from Rome for over eight years. After returning‚ Seneca became the advisor of the infamous Emperor Nero. According to dramaturg William S. Turney‚ Nero ordered the assassination of his own mother‚ and then commissioned Seneca to write a speech that excused Nero’s crimes. During the playwright’s lifetime he wrote tragedies‚ many of them re-inventions of Greek myths of decadence
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