According to Anthony Everitt's Augustus Antyllus and Caesarion were killed because their parents had them perform their coming of age ceremonies. [67] The power Sejanus attained in his capacity as prefect proved Maecenas right in his prediction to Augustus, that it was dangerous to allow one man to command the guard. He twice visited Rome as an ambassador from Rhodes, and Marcus Tullius Cicero (who visited him during his trip to Greece in 79BC - 77BC) and Gaius Julius Caesar both took lessons from him. BookFourVII His daughter Agrippina Vipsania the Elder married Germanicus. n. l. - 18. jna 31 m) byl velitel pretorinsk gardy a na krtk as druh nejmocnj mu ma.Seianus slouil v pretorinsk gard u za vldy csae Augusta, ale teprve za vldy csae Tiberia zaala jeho hvzdn karira". For he has lived like a sad One, from the first Day that the Emperor Tiberius took him into Favour. BookFiveXI Claudius honoured his grandfather Antonys memory. Tiberius was well aware of his vulnerability as emperor, that at any moment an envious rival might attempt to push him aside, and that in roman societies family bonds were very strong. BookFourXXV His habit of seducing other mens wives. The Romans seized Ischia (and Naples) in 322BC. 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. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Cesarion was the son Julius Caesar and as such a was a threat to Octavian, whose entire political career was base on the fact who was adopted by his great uncle. 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 execution for treason in AD 31. Through years of crafty intrigues and indispensable service to the emperor, Sejanus had worked himself up to become the most powerful man in the Empire. BookEightIV Vespasian was wary of her influence over Nero and her animosity towards any friend of Narcissus. Atius Balbus, Marcus (105BC 51BC) was the son and heir of an elder Marcus Atius Balbus (148BC 87BC) and Pompeia. He commanded the fleet at Misenum in 60AD, and was employed by Nero to murder Agrippina, his mother. BookFiveXX Caligula had the obelisk transported from Heliopolis via Alexandria in 37AD. As for Caligula,. Their son Drusus the Younger was born in 13BC. He was killed, his body taken from the prison and thrown into the Tiber. Amidst suspicions of conspiracy against Tiberius, Sejanus was arrested and executed . [15] However this privileged position caused resentment among the senatorial class and the imperial family, in particular earning him the enmity of Tiberius' son Drusus Julius Caesar. They occupied the upper reaches of the valleys of the Anio, Tolenus and Himella; the last two being mountain streams running northward to join the Nar. [48] He stepped down as consul, forcing Sejanus to do the same[49] and conferred an honorary priesthood upon Caligula, rekindling popular support for the house of Germanicus. Acilius Aviola, Manius was consul in 54AD. He was consul in 77BC, the year after Sullas death. For the Ben Jonson play, see, Sejanus is arrested, an etching by G. Mochetti after drawing by Bartolomeo Pinelli. He joined Marcus Caelius Rufus in 48BC in his rising against Caesar, but died at Compsa, near Thurii in Lucania, killed by a stone thrown from the city walls. Agrippina, Vipsania the Younger, (36BC - 20AD) was the daughter of Agrippa by his first wife Pomponia Caecilia Attica, and thereby the granddaughter of Ciceros friend, the knight Caecilius Atticus. BookTwoLIV His nomination of Augustus enemy Lepidus to the Senate. Paulus died of unknown causes. BookTwoLXX Apollo the Tormentor or Executioner was supposedly a name under which the god was worshipped in Rome. BookSixXI His play The Fire performed for Nero. More was to follow when Tiberius learnt of the . He was a friend of Augustus and an opponent of Tiberius, who had him arrested in 30. Atilius, Marcus, a poet and playwright of the second century BC, mentioned by Cicero. [47], Further details concerning Sejanus' fall are provided by Cassius Dio, writing nearly 200 years later in his Roman History. Areus, of Alexandria, was a Stoic or Pythagorean philosopher who enjoyed the favour of Augustus and Livia in Rome. [2][45][70][71] Suetonius Tranquillus asserts that Sejanus was merely an instrument of Tiberius, to hasten the downfall of Germanicus and his family and that he was quickly disposed of once he ceased to be useful. Antonius Musa was a botanist and Augustus physician. Sejanus was related through his mother to the distinguished senatorial family Cornelii Lentuli. The Battle of Actium was fought between the forces of Octavian and the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, on 2 September 31BC, in the Ionian Sea nearby. Aemilius Lepidus, Marcus (6AD - 39AD) was the son of consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus. According to Tacitus, her death in AD 29 changed all that. News arrives that when the head was removed a huge snake leapt from the statue. In 30AD, at Tiberius instigation, the Senate declared Gallus a public enemy (Cassius Dio 58.3). Julia bore Balbus three daughters all named Atia of whom the second was Atia Balba Caesonia, mother of Octavia Minor (fourth wife of triumvir Mark Antony) and of first Emperor Augustus. Temenos simply means sacred space. BookFourXLIV His surrender was received by Caligula. I don't know too much about Antony's children. Afranius, Lucius, d. 46BC was a legatus and client of Pompey. [30] The climate was further poisoned by the hatred that Tiberius' mother Livia Drusilla (the widow of Augustus) felt for her, since Agrippina's ambition, to be the mother of emperors and thus Rome's first woman, was an open secret. Arverni were a Gallic tribe living in what is now the Auvergne region of France. BookFourXV Caligula interred the ashes of his mother Agrippina the Elder and brother Nero in the Mausoleum of Augustus. Augustus studied in Apollonia in 45BC - 44BC under the tutelage of Athenodorus of Tarsus; it was there that he received news of Caesars murder. Furthermore, she says it is even less likely that Livilla would have been complicit in the destruction of her family, the key to her children's future. [27], Germanicus had died in AD 19, in somewhat suspicious circumstances in Syria. BookFourVIII The birthplace of Caligula according to Suetonius. [73], Among the writers who fell victim to the regime of Sejanus and its aftermath, were the historians Aulus Cremutius Cordus and Velleius Paterculus and the poet Phaedrus. [10] Furthermore, their presence served as a constant reminder to the people and the Senate of the substantial armed force which served as the basis for the imperial power. He served with Pompey during his Iberian campaigns against Sertorius in the late 70s, and remained in his service through to the Civil War. Lepidus in his younger years was betrothed in 44BC to Antonia the Elder, the eldest daughter of Mark Antony. 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". b) by intermarrying with the ruling house: there was Livilla and her daughter, there was Gemellus, there was Claudius' children etc. Prime Minister Robert Walpole was attacked in 1735 in the course of a popular skit, C----- and country: A play of seven actsthe whole concluding with the grand masque, call'd, The downfall of Sejanus; its authorship is attributed to 'a masquerader' and in the printed version the masque precedes the play, although it is performed last. Aemilius Lepidus, Marcus, Lepidus the Younger, (d. 30BC), was the only child of triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Albulan Waters, the Albulae Aquae (The White Water) are a group of springs located 6 km West of Tivoli. It's cold and it's brutal, but it is, alas, expedient. A praetor in 49BC, he ran Rome while Caesar defeated Pompey in Spain, and was rewarded with the consulship in 46BC after the defeat of the Pompeians in the East. [81], Making contemporary political points in this way through reinterpretation of distant historical episodes was now common. Sejanus was an ambitious soldier, friend and confidant of Emperor Tiberius; Almighty Prefect of the Praetorian Guard from 14 CE. Sejanus and Tiberius talk about Agrippina, Germanicus's . Atalanta, was a huntress in Greek mythology who joined Meleager and other heroes in the Calydonian Boar Hunt. BookFourXXVI Grandfather of Ptolemy of Mauretania. He was well-connected by birth, but became better connected by politics. His daughter was, infamously, raped first as it was forbidden to execute a virgin. By AD 23, Sejanus was a power in the city. BookSevenIX Galba received a request for aid from its governor. BookTwoXCIII Augustus disdained to visit the Apis sanctuary. BookTwoLXII Augustus married Antonys step-daughter Claudia. He is the most celebrated member of the Argead Dynasty and created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Milo was condemned by 38 votes to 13, and went into exile at Massilia (Marseille), his property being sold by auction. BookFiveIV He was tutor to the young Claudius. [79] This reviews the destruction of his statues after the damnatio memoriae judgment and reflects on the fickleness of public opinion. Alexander the Great, Alexander III of Macedon (356BC 323BC), was a Greek king (basileus) of Macedon. The remaining children of Sejanus, Capito Aelianus and Junilla, were executed in December of that year. During the incidents, Tiberius was hiding on Capri, ready to flee to Asia if things got dicey. BookOneLVI Considered Caesars memoirs inaccurate. BookSixXLV A cargo of sand for Neros wrestlers arena sent from Alexandria. By AD 23 the enmity between the two men had reached a critical point. As consul (31), with the prospect of attaining the great administrative prerogatives of tribunician power, Sejanus fell under the suspicion of the emperor. Aqui esto muitos exemplos de frases traduzidas contendo "CONNECTION WITH THE FAMILY" - ingls-portugus tradues e motor de busca para ingls tradues. BookEightIX Vespasian built the Colosseum which Augustus had planned. Children traumatised by the execution of their parents often become embittered adults, and Tiberius was not about to allow enemies to flourish under his nose. He rejects mankind and goes to live in a cave. Under Caesar in 59BC, Balbus was appointed along with Pompey on a board of commissioners under Julian Law to divide estates in Campania among the commoners. In 11BC he had married Vipsania Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa by his first wife Caecilia Attica, and the former wife of Tiberius. [78], Sejanus' fall is depicted in the section in Juvenal's Satire X on the emptiness of power. A.D. 4-14, via The British Museum. BookOneLXXXIV His Electra, a translation of Sophocles Electra, mentioned. Aelia Paetina married Claudius in 28AD, as his second wife. BookSixIX Nero founded a new colony there, relocating the wealthiest of the leading centurions, and building a harbour. To secure his position, Sejanus secretly plotted against Drusus and seduced his wife Livilla. During Neros reign he was banished from Rome after a forgery charge. 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. Necessidade de traduzir "CONNECTION WITH THE FAMILY" de ingls e usar corretamente em uma frase? Aquitania or Gallia Aquitania was a province of the Roman Empire, bordered by the provinces of Gallia Lugdunensis, Gallia Narbonensis, and Hispania Tarraconensis. 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. BookTwoXVI Mentioned as being on Octavians staff in Sicily. BookFiveXXI BookEightXL He had revived the Secular Games in 17BC. [54] Following the issue of damnatio memoriae by the Senate, Sejanus' statues were torn down and his name obliterated from all public records, even from coins, as in the one pictured opposite. [80] The play is seen as a topical reference to the fall of the former royal favourite, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, executed for treason two years before. He supported Vespasian as emperor in 70AD, but in 72AD, was accused of conspiring with Parthia. Augustus, Gaius Julius Caesar (23 September 63BC 19 August 14AD) was the first ruler of the Roman Empire, from January 27BC until his death. Tiberius probably had recent history in mind. Paulus reconstructed the Basilica Aemilia in Rome, with part of his bribery money. BookThreeLI His comments about Tiberius in letters to Livia. Like Dyrrachium further north, it was an important port on the Illyrian coast as the most convenient link between Brundusium and northern Greece, and as one of the western starting points of the Via Egnatia leading east to Thessaloniki and Byzantium in Thrace. He was proconsul of Asia in 58BC. [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. This virtually ensured He served as Prefect of the Praetorian Guard under Vespasian, from 70AD until 71AD. BookEightIII Caenis was a former slave and secretary of hers. BookTwoXI He suggested that Augustus murdered Hirtius in battle. Unlike the First Triumvirate of Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus, it was formally constituted, signalling the death of the Republic. He conspired against Claudius in 46AD, and was forced to go into exile. And to the point of Octavian killing Antony's son and Caesarion, and if they felt they had to distroy all the children who they felt were a threat, why didn't they kill the other three children of Antony and Cleopatra? Antistius Labeo, Marcus (d. c. 11AD) was a prominent jurist the son of Quintus Antistius Labeo, also a jurist who died at Philippi. [72] Tacitus, on the other hand, attributes much of the decline of Tiberius' rule after AD 23 to the corrupting influence of Sejanus, although he is generally also harsh on Tiberius. [33] Alarmed by this sudden denigration, Sejanus changed his plans and began to isolate Tiberius from Rome. The author "His children also were put to death by decree, the girl (whom he had betrothed to the son of Claudius) having been first outraged by the public executioner on the principle that . He was an important supporter and the loyal friend of Gaius Julius Caesar as a military commander and administrator, being Caesars second cousin, once removed, by his mother Julia Antonia. 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. He was betrothed at one time to Octavians daughter Julia the Elder. [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. BookThreeVII She married Tiberius after 19BC. Roman soldier and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (20 BC AD 31), This article is about the Roman soldier. BookFiveXLIII Claudius appeared to repent of having married her. Brother of Marcus Livius Drusus (tribune) and son of Marcus Livius Drusus (censor), he was adopted into the Aemilii Lepidi. Sejanus despised the Jews and wanted to exterminate their race. They had several children, but only three survived, Germanicus, Livilla, and Claudius. Atellan farces, also known as the Oscan Plays were a collection of vulgar farces, containing lots of low comedy and rude jokes. BookSixXXVIII Nero was rumoured to have had incestuous relations with her. BookFiveXLV Claudius died during his consulship. [52] The senators at first congratulated Sejanus, but when the letter, which initially digressed into completely unrelated matters, suddenly denounced him and ordered his arrest, he was immediately apprehended and imprisoned in the Tullianum. BookSixXXV Nero entered the town triumphantly on his return from Greece in 67AD. BookFourVIII A letter of his quoted regarding Caligula. Sejanus attempted to marry into the Julio-Claudian family. BookOneLXIV An incident during Caesars campaign there. BookThreeLIII His granddaughter Agrippina the Elder. Antony was defeated by Octavian at the naval Battle of Actium, and in a brief land battle at Alexandria. BookThreeLXX His name among the girls was the subject of one of Tiberiuss questions to the grammarians. Riots ensued, in which mobs hunted down and killed anyone they could link to Sejanus. Her mother Rutilia, was a member of the gens Rutilius cognominated Rufus. BookTwoXVII Augustus met with a storm at sea between there and the Peloponnese in 30BC. BookEightVI The legions sent to Moesia rebelled there in 69AD. A wing was added by Claudius in his name. [45] Modern historians consider it unlikely that Sejanus plotted to seize power and, if he had planned so at all, rather might have aimed at overthrowing Tiberius to serve as a regent to Tiberius Gemellus, son of Drusus, or possibly Gaius Caligula. Associated with the goddess Diana and the god Virbius, legend also recalls that it served as a temporary burial place of the Greek hero Orestes. BookTwoLXIII His claim that Augustus had betrothed Julia to his son Antyllus. It's easy! However, he realised that an outright condemnation could provoke Sejanus to attempt a coup. BookFourXXIII Caligula accused Livia of being of low birth. BookOneXXII Mentioned by Julius Caesar, as an example of female rule. The Romans took the town in 123BC and expanded it into an important city, with a canal link to the Mediterranean in 104BC. Didyma was the largest and most significant sanctuary near the great classical city of Miletus. pp. Apollophanes, one of Sextus Pompeys admirals. [88], The name of Sejanus continued to be pressed into political service during the 18th century. BookSixXXXIV He was arrested on Neros orders. He was charged for having eulogized Marcus Junius Brutus and spoken of Gaius Cassius Longinus as the last of the true Romans, which was considered an offence under the Lex Maiestatis; the Senate ordered the burning of his writings. Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are required. Sejanus sends word to have the head removed and the prank discovered. While Dolabellas fleet was destroyed, Antonius was shut up in the island of Curicta and forced to surrender. [84] This was followed in 1634 by another translation, Sir Thomas Hawkins' Politicall Observations upon the Fall of Sejanus, which had originally been titled Della peripetia di fortuna (Of Changes of Fortune) by its author, Giovanni Battista Manzini. Lucius Aelius Sejanus (c. 20 BC - 18 October AD 31), commonly known as Sejanus (), was a Roman soldier, friend and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius.Of the Equites class by birth, Sejanus rose to power as prefect of the Praetorian Guard (the Roman imperial bodyguard), of which he was commander from AD 14 until his execution for treason in AD 31. 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. As early as AD 20, Sejanus had sought to strengthen his ties to the imperial family by betrothing his daughter Junilla to the son of Claudius, Claudius Drusus. BookFourIV Augustus had ordered Tiberius to adopt Germanicus. Aelius Sejanus and His Political Significance - Free download as Word Doc (.doc / .docx), PDF File (.pdf) or read online for free. He also executed Antyllus - Antony's eldest son by Fulvia, although he would have been of age at the time. He was consul for a second time in 42BC. [2] Upon the accession of Tiberius in AD 14, Sejanus was appointed prefect of the Praetorian Guard as the colleague of his father Strabo, and began his rise to prominence. Cordus was brought to trial in AD 25 by Sejanus, under accusations of treason. This is the oldest peripteral (possessing a row of columns on each side) Doric temple in the world. BookEightXIX Their mockery of Vespasians stinginess. Posthumous The youngest son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder (daughter and only biological child of Augustus), Posthumous Agrippa was even considered to be the heir of Emperor Augustus, but in 6 AD, instead, he banished him from Romefor unknown reasons. His maternal grandparents were Augustus and his second wife Scribonia. 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. Agermus, or Agerinus, was a freedman of Agrippina the Younger. BookTwoI Suetonius life of Augustus follows. He may also have been the father of Acerronia Polla, a friend of Agrippina the Younger, murdered by the emperor Nero in AD59. No right to take away their life and freedom. BookThreeXXV His slave Clemens pretended to be him after his dath, and gained a following, but was trapped and executed by Tiberius. BookTwoXCVIII Active trade with Rome, with Puteoli as a harbour used by Alexandrian ships. BookSixLII She warned Nero as a boy not to study philosophy. The facade of Augustus was no longer maintained, and Tiberius openly displayed the strength of the guard at parades.[18]. Tiberius first chose Sejanus, chief of the Praetorian Guard, to murder his enemies but later turned on Sejanus and his family - even hanging his infant daughter Junilla. Some hold that Sejanus seduced Livilla (sister of Germanicus and wife of . However the betrothal was later broken off. 39BC) was a daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia the Younger. BookTwoLXXXII Augustus took baths in Albulan waters, and borrowed the dureta from Moorish Spain. In 61BC, he was a Tribune of the Plebs. [19] Marcia was instrumental in saving her father's work so that it could be published again under Caligula. The remaining children of Sejanus, Capito Aelianus and Junilla, were executed in December of that year.Tacitus, Annals V.9 According to ancient historians, because there was no precedent for the capital punishment of a virgin, Junilla was raped before her execution, with the rope around her neck. BookFiveXXV Claudius stopped sick slaves being abandoned on the Island. Some time after 6AD, for reasons unknown but possibly conspiracy, Augustus banished Postumus to the small island of Planasia. [63] The political turmoil continued until the death of Tiberius in AD 37, after which he was succeeded by Caligula. Aelia Paetina was the daughter of the consul of 4AD, Sextus Aelius Catus. BookSixXLIV Nero intended to equip his concubines as Amazons for his Gallic campaign. BookSixV The mother of Gnaeus Domitius, Neros father. BookSevenXIII Onesimus would be a stock character presumably a Greek slave the name meaning useful in Greek. Lepidus was among Julius Caesars greatest supporters. They had at least two children: a daughter Livia Drusilla and a son Marcus Livius Drusus, who served as a Roman consul. He supported Cicero during the Catiline Conspiracy. BookThreeLXI Tiberiuss subsequent persecution of Sejanuss friends. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. BookTwoII Augustus great-grandfather served under him in Sicily in 205. He held two suffect consulships, in 73AD and 85AD, respectively, governing the province of Hispania Tarraconensis in between, and was made city prefect of Rome in 86AD. [74][75] His fall is elaborated upon by Seneca the Younger, in his letter to Cordus' daughter Marcia To Marcia, On Consolation. BookTwoXCIV Alexander, and Augustus, sacrificed at an altar to Liber-Dionysus in Thrace, possibly at Perperikon. During the civil war, Primus supported Vespasian. They came from the area of Reate, drove the Sakrani or Siculi from Lazio and defeated the Umbrians. BookSixXIII Tiridates I was King of Armenia from 53AD. BookFourLVII Fortunas worship at Antium included a celebrated oracle, only slightly less famous than the oracle of Fortuna Primigenia at Praeneste. William Shakespeare's last will and testament was signed on 25 March 1616, just under a month before his death. She had a brother, Marcus Arrecinus Clemens, who also served as Praetorian Prefect in 70AD under Vespasian. See, Siobhan C. Keenan, Staging Roman History, Stuart Politics, and the Duke of Buckingham: The Example of The Emperors Favourite. She came from Asia Minor and may have been a slave of the Emperor Claudius, or of Octavia, Claudiuss daughter. BookFiveXI Claudius honoured her with the title Augusta. BookSixXXXV Accused of taking Aulus Plautius as her lover. It lies in present-day southwest France, where it gives its name to the modern region of Aquitaine. At the time the girl was only 4 years old but the marriage was prevented when the boy accidentally died a few days later of asphyxiation . [3]:p. 76. The original Latin colony became a municipium c 90BC. 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. BookFourLII Caligula took Alexanders breastplate from the sarcophagus there. Lepidus served as a Roman Senator, and was executed by Octavian (Augustus), as a leader in a conspiracy against him. At a young age, he went to school with Marcus, whom he would later mentor in the Hunger Games. [3][59] Because there was no precedent for the capital punishment of a virgin, Junilla was said to have been raped first, with the rope around her neck[55][59] and her body thrown down the Gemonian stairs along with her brother's. BookEightXXXVII His wife Domitia Longina married Domitian. His fellow rebel, Marcus Junius Brutus the Elder, the father of Caesars assassin of the same name, remained at Mutina, in Gaul. BookOneLVI He forbade the circulation of some of Caesars minor works. BookFiveII An altar to him dedicated in Lyon, on 1st of August 10BC. Several kings, many of whom became gods, were: Saturn, Thybris, Faunus, Aventinus, Picus and the alleged namesake of the country of Latium, Latinus. His brother was Lucius. Claudius was a brother of Germanicus. 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. Sign up for a new account in our community. BookFiveII Claudius born during his consulship. BookSixL She helped to deposit Neros ashes in the family tomb. Sejanus was born in 20 BC at Volsinii, Etruria, into the rank of Lucius Seius Strabo.The Seii were Romans of the equestrian class or knights, the lower of the two upper social classes of the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire.Sejanus' grandfather keeps relations with senatorial families through his marriage with Terentia, a sister of the wife of Gaius Maecenas, who was one of Emperor . [7] With her as an accomplice, Drusus was slowly poisoned and died of seemingly natural causes on September 13, AD 23. Sejanus was born around 20 BC at Volsinii, Etruria, into the Seii, the family of Lucius Seius Strabo. Later published by the Catholic Publication Society in New York in 1872: Drusus the Younger (Drusus Julius Caesar), Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, "Staging Roman History, Stuart Politics, and the Duke of Buckingham: The Example of The Emperors Favourite", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sejanus&oldid=1140980479, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 22 February 2023, at 19:16. BookThreeIV Tiberius father, Tiberius Nero, established a colony of Caesars veterans there. Aesius Proculus was a leading centurions son noted for his good looks. One of his wives was Cosconia Gallita, sister of Servius Cornelius Lentulus Maluginensis (suffect consul in AD 10) and Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio (suffect consul in AD 2). BookTwoXXVIII His charge that Augustus was an obstacle to restoring the Republic. BookOneLXXXVIII He decreed games to celebrate Caesars deification in 42BC. V roce 17 se stal velitelem pretorinsk gardy. I don't believe under the Republic proper there were such instances (but Augustus famously had Caesarion murdered). But suddenly, at the end of AD 31, he was arrested, summarily executed and his body unceremoniously cast down the Gemonian stairs. Television documentaries usually wet my appetite for subjects and I then progress to books and the internet for greater understanding. He was responsible for many of his military victories, most notably Actium against the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt. BookFourXLIX Caligula had intentions of ruling from there temporarily. BookFourXLIX Caligula had intentions of ruling from there. 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. People felt the patrician blood of the royal house was being polluted by marriage to an equestrian. [55] The remaining children of Sejanus, Capito Aelianus and Junilla, were executed in December of that year. Motivated by a personal grudge he led a rebellion involving the legions Legio XIV Gemina and Legio XXI Rapax, camped in Moguntiacum (Mainz). [55][56] The accusations were further corroborated by confessions from Livilla's slaves, who, under torture, admitted to having administered the poison to Drusus.[57]. The law was introduced by the suffect consuls of that year, Marcus Papius Mutilus and Quintus Poppaeus Secundus, though they themselves were unmarried. And expanded it into an important city, with a storm at sea between there and the internet greater. For the Ben Jonson play, see, Sejanus was an obstacle to the! 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