CLAS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Toga, Germanicus, Harpoon
3 Nov 2016
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Nero is blamed for everything so he decides in order to take the blame off himself; he. Christian persecutions, 64 ce must blame it on someone else the christians! All the other heirs augustus picked out (4) died before he did, so had to designate tiberius (livia"s son from another marriage) as his heir even though he didn"t like him. Augustus forced him to marry julia, to cement the heir-ness and had to give up his true love for this reason. finesse. He had been a good general and organizer, but he was hesitant to take power. becomes a resentful old man who for example, starts treason trials against perceived enemies. He takes a semi-retire to go to capri and leaves his nephew, caligula (by brother. Caligula was aided by macro, the prefect of the. Praetorian guard. collections, little fishes , and he abused senators and their wives) still present so praetorian guard proclaim caligula as the new emperor.
