[83], Following Buckingham's death in 1628, when it was safer to do so, a translation of a history by Pierre Matthieu was published under the title, The Powerful Favourite, the life of Aelius Sejanus. Aesius Proculus was a leading centurions son noted for his good looks. [76] Velleius Paterculus was an historian and contemporary of Sejanus, whose two-volume The Roman History details a history of Rome from the fall of Troy until the death of Livia Augusta in AD 29. Their only child was their daughter Claudia Antonia, born in 30AD. [64], The reforms of Sejanus most significantly included the founding of the Castra Praetoria, which established the Praetorian Guard as the powerful political force, for which it is primarily known today. By Timon of Athens (The Life of Tymon of Athens) is a play written by William Shakespeare and probably also Thomas Middleton in about 1606. BookTwoXIX He was executed by Augustus in 30BC for conspiring against him. Apollophanes, one of Sextus Pompeys admirals. Despite being defended by Cicero, Hybrida was condemned and went into exile at Kefalonia. BookThreeLXXIV The Apollo of Temenos was presumably from The Temple of Apollo on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily, a Greek temple dating from the 6th century BC. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Antonius Musa was a botanist and Augustus physician. His father was also the second cousin of King Priam of Troy. To these Augustus shows mercy he puts them up with Octavia. BookSixIII BookSixIV BookSixX BookSixXII BookSixXXV Mentioned. Ancus Marcius (r. 640BC 616BC) was the fourth King of Rome. On the promontory was an ancient temple of Apollo Actius, which was enlarged by Augustus (Octavian) who also renewed the quinquennial games known as Actia or Ludi Actiaci. BookFiveXXVI Her betrothal to Claudius was broken off c. 8AD. In his work he praised Tiberius and Sejanus, even defending the latter's high position in the government, despite not ranking higher than equestrian. He was proconsul of Asia in 58BC. Cicero stated that Pompey would joke about Balbus, that he was not a person of any importance. Having more weapons doesn't give you that right. BookOneIII Julius Caesar contemplated joining his faction. They had at least six sons. The same teenage boy also straight-out assaulted David Cain right after laying eyes on his daughter Cassandra. In the book version of I Claudius there is a reference to executing a boy in his toga virilis (which Graves translates as "Manly Gown" haha)as a mock coming-of-age ceremony. BookSixXXVIII Nero was rumoured to have had incestuous relations with her. He fought and almost completely subdued the tribes in 56BC, though rebellions ensued up to 27BC - 28BC, Agrippa gaining a great victory over the Gauls of Aquitania in 38BC. In 20, Julia married her cousin Nero Caesar (the son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder). BookThreeLXVIII His comments on Tiberiuss mannerisms. Tiberius variously announced that he would arrive in Rome the next day or that he was at the point of death. Paulus joined Marcus Junius Brutus and after Brutus suicide in 42BC, was pardoned, living out his remaining years at Miletus. He was the great grandfather of Julius Tigranes, King of Armenia under Nero. Artabanus II of Parthia ruled the Parthian Empire from about 10AD to 38AD. BookEightIX Vespasian built the Colosseum which Augustus had planned. BookSevenVI Galba was governor of Aquitania for almost a year. No right to take away their life and freedom. BookEightVII Vespasian seized Alexandria, the key to Egypt, in 69AD. He conspired against Claudius in 46AD, and was forced to go into exile. Nero, who was Germanicus's grandson not son, wasn't born for another fifteen years or so after Claudius Drusus was betrothed to Sejanus's daughter Aelia Junilla. It is conventional to call him Octavius when referring to events between 63BC and 44BC, Octavian (or Octavianus) when referring to events between 44BC and 27BC, and Augustus when referring to events after 27BC. [100] It is equally true of some recent detective novels set in Roman times. Antonia was the grandmother of the Emperor Caligula. Aesculapius was a god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek and Roman religion. [24] At the time the girl was only 4 years old but the marriage never happened, as the boy mysteriously or accidentally died a few days later of asphyxiation. Her father Agrippa died in March, 12BC. Anicetus was a freedman of Nero and formerly his tutor. The ancient historian Cassius Dio wrote: Sejanus was so great a person by reason both of his excessive haughtiness and of his vast power, that, to put it briefly, he himself seemed to be the emperor and Tiberius a kind of island potentate, inasmuch as the latter spent his time on the island of Capreae.[43]. BookTwoXVI Mark Antonys taunting of Augustus regarding Naulochus. >>>>>The First Century AD, (Claudius the God), part 2. So I guess the girls when they were married, they became a woman? BookTwoXLII Agrippa became aedile in 33BC in order to work on Augustus aqueduct projects. BookFourXXIII Caligula claimed that his mother was the product of Augustuss incest with his daughter Julia the Elder. BookTwoLIX His statue in Rome. [87] The story of Sejanus, with reference to the Earl's imprisonment in the Tower on a charge of treason, is interpreted as an argument for absolute monarchy, direct rule without the intermediary of politicians. Sejanus Quotes. BookOneLXXIX It was rumoured that Caesar might remove from Rome to Alexandria. To have the children assume a brutalised form of adulthood beforehand was to conform to roman custom, and prevent bad luck from the gods disfavour as well as causing an even worse outrage amongst the public for flouting these customs. BookTwoLIV His nomination of Augustus enemy Lepidus to the Senate. BookFourXXIX Caligula plays on the association. His brother was Lucius. Antyllus was put to death beacause he grew up with Antonius and groomed as his heir while Iulius was brought up by Octavia most of his life and as such might be consider as her son. The Murena conspiracy against Augustus was in 23BC. BookFourXV Caligula awarded her all Livias honours on his accession in 37AD, before her death in October of that year. BookTwoXII BookThreeIV Antony fled to join him after Mutina. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Lucius Aelius Sejanus (June 3, 20 BC - October 18, AD 31), commonly known as Sejanus (English pronunciation: / s d e n s /), was an ambitious soldier, friend and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius.An equestrian by birth, Sejanus rose to power as prefect of the Roman imperial bodyguard, known as the Praetorian Guard, of which he was commander from AD 14 until his death in . BookFourVII His daughter Agrippina Vipsania the Elder married Germanicus. BookSixXXXIX Aeneas carried his father on his shoulders from the ruins of Troy. According to Josephus, it was Antonia, the mother of Livilla, who finally alerted Tiberius to the growing threat Sejanus posed (possibly with information provided by Satrius Secundus), in a letter she dispatched to Capri in the care of her freedman Pallas. Timon lavishes his wealth on parasitic companions until he is poor and rejected by them. BookFiveXI Claudius honoured her with the title Augusta. He and his lover Cleopatra committed suicide shortly thereafter. The author He was then used to implicate Neros wife Octavia in adultery, but was subsequently banished and died in Sardinia. It is likely that Sejanus' father Strabo came to the attention of Augustus through his father's connection with Maecenas. [39] Only Caligula, the youngest son of Germanicus, managed to survive the purges of Sejanus, by moving to Capri with Tiberius in AD 31.[40]. For a time the most influential and feared citizen of Rome, He fell from power in 31AD, the year of his consulship. It's easy! BookEightLVI The library of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, and the Pergamese library stored in the Temple of Serapis, may both be intended. Arverni were a Gallic tribe living in what is now the Auvergne region of France. Sejanus, in full Lucius Aelius Sejanus, (died 31 ce), chief administrator of the Roman Empire for the emperor Tiberius, alleged murderer of Tiberiuss only son, Drusus Caesar, and suspect in a plot to overthrow Tiberius and become emperor himself. Being from the Capitol doesn't give you that right. In his capacity as Praetorian prefect, Sejanus quickly became a trusted advisor to Tiberius. With her as an accomplice, Drusus was slowly poisoned and died of seemingly natural causes on September 13, 23AD. When Tiberius withdrew to Capri in 26, Sejanus became de facto ruler of the empire. Sejanus' brother Lucius Seius Tubero, who became suffect consul in AD 18, was thought to have been a paternal half-brother, from his father Strabo marrying a daughter of Quintus Aelius Tubero[3]:p. 76 but Syme has rejected this, instead he believes that Lucius Seius Tubero was Junia Blaesa's son from a marriage to Quintus Aelius Tubero whom Strabo adopted upon marrying Junia. But suddenly, at the end of AD 31, he was arrested, summarily executed and his body unceremoniously cast down the Gemonian stairs. This was true of William Percival Crozier's historical romance The Fates Are Laughing (1945), which was written by a classicist with an eye for detail and set during the fall of Sejanus and the reign of Caligula. He served as consul in 34BC and censor in 22BC. BookThreeXLVII BookThreeLXXIV BookFourXXI BookFourXXII The Temple of Divus Augustus was built between the Palatine and Capitoline, behind the Basilica Julia, on the site of the house that Augustus had inhabited before he entered public life. BookTwoXVII Octavian (Augustus) achieved victory there. Amidst suspicion of conspiracy, Sejanus was arrested and executed, along with his followers. Allia: the Battle of the Allia was fought near the Allia river about 18 kilometres north of Rome, its traditional date being July 18th, 390BC, though 387BC is more plausible. BookSevenXXXVI A Roman colony, named after the Vitelli, was defended against them by the Vitelli. BookSixLII She warned Nero as a boy not to study philosophy. BookThreeLXX Tiberius made a filial sacrifice in his memory. In 27, however, Sejanus persuaded the emperor to take up residence on Capreae (modern Capri) and in 29 succeeded in having Agrippina and her son Nero exiled. His house belonged to the so called Equites, the equestrian or knightly class, which were the lower of the two highest social classes within the Roman republic and empire. BookOneIX Conspires with Julius Caesar in 65BC. According to all three accounts, the executioner raped Sejanus' daughter Junilla before killing her because there was a rule against or a lack of precedent supporting the execution of a virgin. I guess they have a cerimony for that sort of thing. Here's my point. Alexandrians were the inhabitants of Alexandria, the capital of Egypt from its foundation by Alexander the Great in 331BC until the Muslim Conquest in 641AD. BookOneLXXXVII Caesar had dined at his house on the eve of the assassination. He raised Atias children alongside his own son and daughter from a previous marriage and arranged Octavias first marriage, to the consul and senator Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor. BookTwoLXV BookThreeXV Adopted by Augustus in 4AD, he was exiled by him sometime after 6AD. The tomb was ultimately lost some time in the 4th century AD. His Libri ad Edictum embraced a commentary, not only on the edicts of the praetors, but also on that of the curule aediles. Atius Balbus, Marcus (105BC 51BC) was the son and heir of an elder Marcus Atius Balbus (148BC 87BC) and Pompeia. Meleager who lusted after her awarded her the boar-skin. BookThreeLI His comments about Tiberius in letters to Livia. Agamennon was a Greek king, leader of the army at Troy in Homers Iliad. BookFiveXXV Armenian envoys at the court of Claudius. Argivus was Galbas steward who saw to the interment of his ashes. Aurelius Cotta, Gaius (c. 124BC - 73BC) was a Roman statesman and orator. He also executed Antyllus - Antony's eldest son by Fulvia, although he would have been of age at the time. Edward Togo Salmon wrote that, In the whole twenty two years of Tiberius' reign, not more than fifty-two persons were accused of treason, of whom almost half escaped conviction, while the four innocent people to be condemned fell victims to the excessive zeal of the Senate, not to the Emperor's tyranny. [19] Marcia was instrumental in saving her father's work so that it could be published again under Caligula. However, he realised that an outright condemnation could provoke Sejanus to attempt a coup. Marsh believes that L. Arruntius,legate of Spain from 23/24 . Didyma was the largest and most significant sanctuary near the great classical city of Miletus. BookThreeXLVIII Tiberius doubled the legacies left to the army in Augustus will. In 60, he was involved in a forgery case which discredited him, though he escaped punishment. We use cookies for essential site functions and for social media integration. Virgil draws a comparison between the complicated movements of the game and the convolutions of the Cretan Labyrinth in Aeneid, V. (lines 585-591) Caligula and Claudius presented the Troy Game also. Aemilius Lepidus Paulus, Lucius (c. 37BC - 14AD) was the son of Aemilius Lepidus Paulus (suffect consul 34BC and later censor) and Cornelia, the elder daughter of Scribonia. He was politically allied to Sulla, but once the dictator had resigned in 79BC, Lepidus attempted to undermine the Sullan constitution. Sometime in 39AD, Caligula made public letters by his sisters Agrippina the Younger and Julia Livilla detailing adulterous affairs with Lepidus and a plot against the emperor. L. 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