HIST 2905 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Poppaea Sabina, Richborough Castle, Albert Camus
17 Mar 2016
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Themes stability of their political rule; relations with the senate; religious issues; foreign policy; living up to augustus; republican hangover". As people became more afraid of him his popularity dropped. Was the last man standing of augustus" heirs. Dragged back to rome when augustus was close to death. *1: 15-23 moderately successful reign; dealt with rebellions; death of. No one knows hoe he dies but believed that he was poisoned. Piso became implicated and publicly blamed as a scape goat. Piso had been sacrificed to protect the emperor. *2: 23-31: dominated by sejanus; tiberius capri. *3: 31-37: informers: delatores: things go from bad to worse maiestas trials. Tacitus: a clan of people invented for the destruction of the state". Tiberius died in 37, did not prepare for succession. Caligula had grown up in the camps with germanicus on tours of the. Will of tiberius first act to cancel it. Lots of enthusiasm for caligula at the beginning, but .
