CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Palatine Hill, Roman Citizenship, Euripides

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 103
• Professor: M Barbara Reeves

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Nero claudius caesar (54-68: pretending that the senate and people of rome still have control of the government (under augustus, people that get killed as he has become a death-spot . Octavia: his wife and his step-sister, the daughter of claudius, has her killed. Petronius: literature we are looking at. Ad 64: great fire of rome: fire that rages through the city for 6 days, much of the city core was completely destroyed, previous emperors had lived on the palatine hill, the centre. Where we get the word palace from. Nero decides, after the great fire, that he needs a much bigger residence. Takes over parts of 4 different hills and the space between in order to have a house that is more proper for the leader of the world": tacitus, pg. Tells about how people felt about nero"s building of the palace after the re.