CLST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Vatican Hill, Decebalus, 18 Months
4 Dec 2014
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Not even 17 when he succeeded claudius: became princeps in ad 54, promised good relations with senate, equites and army. Whoever was responsible for the burning of rome, nero began building his new home his domeus aurea, the golden house, very soon afterwards. The building or complex at its greatest extent was it is estimated 1. 2 square kilometers o. It connected the old imperial residence , the polutium, with the other imperial buildings the empire was almost bankrupt on its completion. Ad 66 he crowned tiridates as the king of armenia in rome: seemed to have regained public favour by now. Nero was uninterested in military matters: never visited roman troops, unable to solve provincial and foreign problems made by gaius" mismanagement and claudius" expansionism, britain was not secure. Ad 60 revolution due to roman cruelty, embezzlement and rapacity. In ad 61 the queen of the iceni of britain, boudicca (boadicea) rose in rebellion against rome.
