AR215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Caldarium, Italica, Tepidarium
9 Feb 2016
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Augustus brought about a new form of government and novel approaches to building projects and artistic traditions. Later 1st century ad emperors had varying success in replicating the quantity of. Selected by the senate to take position of emperor after domition was assassinated. He lacked the support of the military but adopted a popular general to be his successor. He didn"t try to portray himself like the julio-claudians or the flavians. Constructed a small forum next to augustus" in rome. Born in italica, spain; first non-italian emperor (sets precedence) Received the title optimus princeps (best princeps) No historical sources preserved which discuss trajan (only emperor where this happens: problematic because we don"t know the politics of the time or the successes of. Most successful emperor after augustus at accomplishing the tasks of a good emperor battles etc: large scale building program, military conquest, travel, strong economy. Dacia; northern romania: conquered by trajan, very rich area.
