CC 302: Introduction to Ancient Rome (Unique # 30270)

October 5: Rome, 44 BCE - 68 AD

I: Lingua Latina

• Words attributed to some Julio-Claudian emperors

1. Festina lente (a favorite motto of Augustus)
   
2. O homines ad servitutem paratos! (allegedly said by Tiberius about Roman senators)
   
3. Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet! (supposedly said by Caligula)
   

II. The Age of Augustus

• Augustus' rise to power, 44 - 27 BCE
  Note: Augustus is called "Octavian" until 27 BCE, "Augustus," thereafter
• Events and Policies, 27 BCE- 14 CE

1. The Settlement: How the "restored republic" became the empire
   constitutional measures (consulship, tribunician powers, provinces)
   money
   auctoritas
2. Moral legislation (Leges Juliae)
3. Art as propaganda
4. Foreign policy (esp. defeat of Quinctilius Varus, 9 CE)
   Maps of the Roman Empire
5. Family troubles and the succession
   Family Tree of the Julio-Claudians

III. The Julio-Claudians: Rome's First Dynasty
(27 BCE- 68 CE)

• Augustus: 27 BCE - 14 CE
• Tiberius (all dates from here on CE): 14-37

1. Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder
2. Sejanus
3. Continuation of Augustus' foreign policy

• Caligula (=Gaius): 37-41
• Claudius: 41-54

1. Scholarly interests
2. Messalina
3. Agrippina the Younger
4. Freedmen
5. Conquest of Britain

• Nero: 54-68

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