CLAS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Amphora, Equites, Apoplexy
9 Nov 2016
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Domitian military suspects him because he"s not one of them, so he adopts trajan, a respected and popular general as his son and successor and so now the military supports him. He reduces taxes, recalls exiles, gives land to poor and many great things. He creates alimenta , a scheme to help farmers and needy children. He dies of old age after 16 months (he gets a stroke after shouting at an officer) He"s a nice old man but not a great leader. He"s not a military man so there"s no chance of him making a military dynasty, but the. Since they don"t want a civil war, they make nerva the emperor quickly after death of. Adopted by nerva because he was a respected and popular general. He is a tough old general and the army loves him so they support him. He is from spain the first non-italian emperor (the first provincial emperor)
