CLA 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Praetorian Guard, Defence Historical Service, Eastern Armenia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA 1102
• Professor: Richard Burgess

Document Summary

Julio-claudian dynasty: 1 - augustus, 2 - tiberius, 3 - gaius, 4 - claudius, 5 nero. Caligula was an example of one of these bad emperors he was hated by just about everyone. He was assassinated eventually but his assassins didn"t have much in the way of a plan for what to do once they had killed him. The praetorian guard those charged with protecting and keeping the emperor safe they were out of a job if there wasn"t an emperor. They find a guy cowering behind a curtain gaius" uncle claudius: the praetorian guard made him emperor but they did as something of a joke. One of his main problems was that he let freedmen run things and they took over a lot of power. 2: he was also very devoted to his wife she wasn"t to him, though, and had a series of well-known affairs. Made thrace a province link between the asian and the european provinces.