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Julio-Claudian Rulers Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero

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Page 1: Julio-Claudian Rulers Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero

Julio-Claudian Rulers

Augustus

Tiberius

Caligula

Claudius

Nero

Page 2: Julio-Claudian Rulers Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero

Octavian/Augustus

• Advice from Senate• Governed difficult

provinces• Public projects• “Good old days”• Reformed army

– Training– Commanders– Benefits

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Tiberius Caligula

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Claudius

• permitted to become emperor due to physical and “mental” handicaps

• Added Britain to the empire

• Severe family problems

Page 5: Julio-Claudian Rulers Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero

Nero

• Worst emperor of the Pax Romana

• Singer, musician• Fire destroyed much

of the city– Persecution of

Chrisitans– Selfish rebuilding

Page 6: Julio-Claudian Rulers Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero

Legion Selected Emperors, 69 AD

Galba 7 months Otho 35 days Vitellius 4 months

Page 7: Julio-Claudian Rulers Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero

Flavian Emperors

Vespasian Titus Domitian

Page 8: Julio-Claudian Rulers Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero

Antonini “5 Good” Emperors

Nerva

Trajan

Hadrian

Antonius Pius

Marcus Aurelius

Page 9: Julio-Claudian Rulers Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero

Nerva

• Law of Succession

Page 10: Julio-Claudian Rulers Augustus Tiberius Caligula Claudius Nero

Trajan

• Non-Italian emperor• Empire reached its

largest size• Dacia• Military-bureaucracy• public works

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Hadrian

• Territorial withdrawals• Stabilized imperial

size• Hadrian’s Wall• Lived outside of

Rome• Jewish Revolt• Pantheon

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Antonius Pius

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Marcus Aurelius

• Last Pax Romana emperor

• Germanic wars• Stoic philosopher• “Meditiations”• Ended Law of

Succession by selecting Commodus, his son