His last campaign initiated the conquest of the upper Danube region, which would become the Roman province of Pannonia in 13BC. Please refer to our Privacy Policy. Those are things everyone is born with, and they're not yours for the taking. You may accept or manage cookie usage at any time. BookOneVII His statue in the temple of Hercules (Heracles) in Cadiz. [19] We also know from this source that Cordus starved himself to death. 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. Yes - whatever we may think of the killing of young children, given the mindset of the ancient ruling classes, leaving political opponents' children alive was only to invite later troubles. After Caesars murder, he proposed an agrarian law in favor of the people and Caesars veterans, and took part in the operations at Mutina (43BC). BookTwoLVII Augustus funded and dedicated a statue of Apollo Sandalarius in the shoemakers ward in Rome. Caligula later retrieved her ashes and honoured her in Rome. No Executing Virgins. And remember - Cicero and his party in the Senate were even toying with the idea of removing Octavian, no doubt for similar reasons. 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 don't believe under the Republic proper there were such instances (but Augustus famously had Caesarion murdered). In 17th century France, the fall of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin was celebrated in a political pamphlet that also drew parallels with the career of Sejanus, L'Ambitieux ou le portraict d'Aelius Sejanus en la personne du Cardinal Mazarin (Paris, 1642). BookThreeIV Tiberius father, Tiberius Nero, established a colony of Caesars veterans there. Does this make any since? BookTwoXCII Augustus exchanged the island for that of Capri, with Naples, in 6AD. BookFourXIV He courted Caligulas favour. Secondly he married Claudia Marcella Minor, daughter of Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor and Octavia Minor, without issue. His brother Euphorbus was physician to King Juba II of Numidia. BookFourXII Caligula supposedly wished to avenge her death. BookSixXX The rhythmic clapping of some Alexandrians appealed to Nero. BookFiveXX Caligula had the obelisk transported from Heliopolis via Alexandria in 37AD. A.D. 4-14, via The British Museum. At a young age, he went to school with Marcus, whom he would later mentor in the Hunger Games. Augustus studied in Apollonia in 45BC - 44BC under the tutelage of Athenodorus of Tarsus; it was there that he received news of Caesars murder. Aetna is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania. This made them adults and ergo carnifex fodder. Antistius was a physician who examined Caesars body after his assassination. 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. [45] Even the imperial magistracy was not exempted from Tiberius' wrath. He was exiled and then executed by order of Domitian probably in AD95. The year of his death is unknown, but Cicero (64 years younger) speaks of having conversed with him on literary matters. BookFourXVI Caligula re-adopted his practice of publishing the Imperial Accounts. BookSevenIX Galba received a request for aid from its governor. fall on the eraser used in writing, or equally on the lavatorial sponge on a stick used by Romans, that is, his unfinished tragedy had gone down the drain. BookFourXXXIV His relocation of statues to the Campus Martius. BookTwoLXXXVI Augustus praises her accomplishments. Lepidus in his younger years was betrothed in 44BC to Antonia the Elder, the eldest daughter of Mark Antony. 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]. He supported Cicero during the Catiline Conspiracy. As consul (31), with the prospect of attaining the great administrative prerogatives of tribunician power, Sejanus fell under the suspicion of the emperor. With a height of 400 feet or so, it was for many centuries among the tallest man-made structures, and one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. In this Antonia sends the letter of accusation to Tiberius via Claudius, after discovering her daughter is plotting with Sejanus. [32] The emperor denied this request, warning Sejanus that he was in danger of overstepping his rank. BookFiveXXVI Her betrothal to Claudius was broken off c. 8AD. His military career started as a legate and cavalry commander of Sulla during the Mithridatic Wars, and earned his nickname half-beast, due to atrocities committed in Greece. The facade of Augustus was no longer maintained, and Tiberius openly displayed the strength of the guard at parades.[18]. BookOneLVI Considered Caesars memoirs inaccurate. During an argument Drusus had struck the prefect with his fist,[7] and he openly lamented that "a stranger was invited to assist in the government while the emperor's son was alive". BookSevenIV Associated with an omen of Galbas accession to power. Armenia is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. This was the island where her mother Julia the Elder had been banished. 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. BookThreeVII His daughter Agrippina Vipsania the Younger the married Tiberius. BookSixXIX The Caspian Gates originally applied to the narrow region at the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea, through which Alexander marched in pursuit of the Persian, Bessus. [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. BookFourXXXVIII Caligula knocked down an auction lot to him while he was asleep. Aequiculi, Aequicoli, or the Aequi, were an ancient people of northeast Latium and the central Appennines of Italy who were defeated by the Romans, after which substantial colonies were established. As prefect he gained the complete confidence of the emperor. He was subsequently reinstated by Galba, and placed in command of a legion in Pannonia. Abridged and improved by some additions of his own, he published his Sejanus, a tragedy: as it was intended for the stage (1752), when he could not get it acted. BookFiveII An altar to him dedicated in Lyon, on 1st of August 10BC. After Caesars assassination, Octavian, Antony and Lepidus ultimately met on an island in a river near Mutina (Modena), and formed the Second Triumvirate. BookFourLII Caligula took Alexanders breastplate from the sarcophagus there. BookThreeLXII His rumoured poisoning of Drusus the Younger. [11] Augustus was careful however to uphold the republican veneer of this regime, and only allowed nine cohorts to be formed (one fewer than in a normal Roman legion), which were inconspicuously scattered across various lodging houses in the city, and commanded by two prefects. Corrections? He was politically allied to Sulla, but once the dictator had resigned in 79BC, Lepidus attempted to undermine the Sullan constitution. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. BookFiveXXVI Aemilia Lepida was his great-grandaughter. Antonius Primus, Marcus (b. before 36AD - d. after 81AD) was born at Tolosa (Toulouse) in Gaul. Ancharia, was the first wife of Gaius Octavius. BookSixXXVIII Nero was rumoured to have had incestuous relations with her. BookSixXXXIV He was arrested on Neros orders. [31] To Sejanus, Agrippina's sons Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar and Caligula were a threat to his power. The year of the reorganization of the Praetorians ac-cording to Dio (7), was 20, and the same year Sejanus' daughter, Junilla, was promised to . BookSixIII BookSixIV BookSixX BookSixXII BookSixXXV Mentioned. However, she was a virgin, and as such couldn't be legally executed, so she was raped with the rope around her neck and then strangled." The same teenage boy also straight-out assaulted David Cain right after laying eyes on his daughter Cassandra. It was published in the First Folio in 1623. Sent to administer Transalpine Gaul, he ultimately brought his army back to Rome, where he was defeated by Catulus in a pitched battle on the Campus Martius. Ancus Marcius (r. 640BC 616BC) was the fourth King of Rome. Balbus served as a praetor in 62BC and obtained the government of Sardinia. . Arrecina Tertulla (d. 62/63AD) was the first wife of the Emperor Titus, and daughter of Marcus Arrecinus Clemens, Praetorian Prefect in 38 under Caligula. In 61BC, he was a Tribune of the Plebs. A. Chaulk (1923), A later fictional treatment of the historical episode appeared as the first story of Edward Maturin's Sejanus, and Other Roman Tales (New York 1839). BookTwoXXI The Parthians accepted Augustus claim to Armenia (Mark Antony had annexed in it 34BC). Apollonius Molon was a Greek rhetorician who flourished about 70 BC. Some hold that Sejanus seduced Livilla (sister of Germanicus and wife of . 39BC) was a daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia the Younger. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. BookThreeXXV His slave Clemens pretended to be him after his dath, and gained a following, but was trapped and executed by Tiberius. Afranius, Lucius was a comic poet, who lived at the beginning of the 1st century BC. BookOneIX Conspires with Julius Caesar in 65BC. By his enmity, men fell. BookFiveXI Claudius honoured his grandfather Antonys memory. Actium was the ancient name of a promontory of western Greece in northwestern Acarnania, at the mouth of the Sinus Ambracius (Gulf of Arta) opposite Nicopolis, which was later founded by Augustus on the north side of the strait. During the incidents, Tiberius was hiding on Capri, ready to flee to Asia if things got dicey. He became tutor to Claudius. It included provisions against adultery and celibacy and complemented and supplemented Augustus Lex Julia de Maritandis Ordinibus of 18BC and the Lex Iulia de Adulteriis Coercendis of 17BC. Ascletarion was an astrologer who foretold Domitians fate. 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. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. According to the ancient historian Tacitus, Sejanus was also a former favourite of the wealthy Marcus Gavius Apicius, whose daughter may have been Sejanus' first wife Apicata. Possibly the character was a byword for stinginess. [24] Subsequently he was accused by the Emperor Tiberius, of endeavouring to stir up revolution, and died in confinement in Rome. [51][52] On October 18, AD 31, Sejanus was summoned to a Senate meeting by a letter from Tiberius, ostensibly to bestow the tribunician powers upon him. Aelius Seianus, Lucius, known as Sejanus (d. 31AD) was an Equestrian by birth, the son of Lucius Seius Strabo who became Governor of Egypt, and succeeded his father as prefect of the Imperial bodyguard, the Praetorian Guard, which he commanded from 14AD until his death in 31AD. He was raised to the throne by those Parthians who refused to acknowledge Vonones I, whom Augustus had sent from Rome (where he lived as hostage) to succeed his father Phraates IV. During Neros reign he was banished from Rome after a forgery charge. BookFiveXLI She warned the young Claudius over the sensitivity of the work on history he was writing. BookSevenXXXVI Vitelliuss paternal great-grandfather was a quaestor under Augustus. BookThreeLXX Tiberius made a filial sacrifice in his memory. BookThreeVII She married Tiberius after 19BC. 40th year of the reign of Imperator Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus and validation of Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus to the position of Princeps. Since the death of Germanicus, Drusus had been openly groomed as the successor of his father, successfully commanding legions in Illyricum in AD 18,[22] and sharing the consulship with Tiberius in AD 21. [29] Following his death, his wife Agrippina the Elder returned to Rome with their six children and became increasingly involved with a group of senators who opposed the growing power of Sejanus. [53], That same evening the Senate convened at the Temple of Concord and summarily condemned Sejanus to death. Agrippa traveled to Mytilene on Lesbos, from which he administered affairs in the East. BookSevenXLVI Vitellius assumed the office of High Priest on the anniversary of the battle. I guess they have a cerimony for that sort of thing. BookFourXXIII Caligula despised Agrippas lowly origins. [68] Cassius Dio notes that after Sejanus, no other prefect except Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, who commanded the Guard under Septimius Severus, would rise to such influence. [96] The first of these was Miles Gerald Keon's Dion and the Sibyls: A Classic Christian Novel (London, 1866);[97] later examples include Paul L. Maier's Pontius Pilate (Grand Rapids MI 1968)[98] and Chris Seepe's The Conspiracy to Assassinate Jesus Christ (Toronto 2012). [42] With most of the political opposition crushed, Sejanus felt his position was unassailable. He became governor of Macedonia, where he made himself so detested that he was forced to leave the province. Asiaticus was a freedman and catamite of Vitellius. It shows that one's child may escape your death sentence even in the Roman World. Octavian restored the outward forms of the Roman Republic, with governmental power vested in the Roman Senate, but in practice retained autocratic power. Sejanus attempted to betrothe his infant daughter Junilla to the future emperor Claudius' son, but Claudius' son died. [ 22] At the time the girl was only 4 years old but the marriage was nonetheless prevented when the boy accidentally died a few days later of asphyxiation. [85][86] Later in the century Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, was the target of the four-page political pamphlet Sejanus, or The popular favourite, now in his solitude, and sufferings, signed with the pseudonym Timothy Tory (1681). Tiberius, repeatedly warned by his sister-in-law Antonia of Sejanuss designs, had him arrested and executed. Aemilius Lepidus, Marcus (6AD - 39AD) was the son of consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus. Aufidius Lurco, Marcus originally came from Fundi (modern Fondi). Arrecinus Clemens, Marcus was brother to Arrecina Tertulla, the first wife of the Emperor Titus. Copyright 2000-2023 A. S. Kline, All Rights Reserved. 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