CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Popular Monarchy, Panhellenic Games, Political Mutilation In Byzantine Culture
14 Apr 2015
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Classics 1m03 lecture 23: household staff as state civil service: imperial freedmen. 48: from messalina to agrippina: executed messalina his wife. 53: nero as heir: agrippina"s son not his own son britannicus. 54: death of claudius: poisoned by the empress, tutelage of seneca and burrus, turned to these men to help him rule. 59: death of agrippina; 62: dismissal of seneca; 63: death of burrus; 65: death of. Made this open to the people: also erected a bronze statue of himself, cultivating a spectacular kingly image. 66-70: 1st jewish revolt: broke out in jerusalem. 67: revolt of vindex: raised his troops in rebellion and it was supressed. 68: galba"s overthrow of nero, end of julio-claudians: raised his armies to march on rome, senate sees the opportunity and declared nero a public enemy, galba now princeps, before he reached rome nero committed suicide.
