BookTwoLXXXIX Augustus studied under him. However, he realised that an outright condemnation could provoke Sejanus to attempt a coup. Sejanus' grandfather maintained relations with senatorial families through his marriage with Terentia, a sister of the wife of Gaius Maecenas, who was one of Emperor Augustus' most powerful political allies. Aelius Plautius Lamia Aemilianus, Lucius was consul suffectus in 80AD, under Titus, and the first husband of Domitians wife Domitia Longina. Popular in Ancient Rome, the farces were usually played after longer items such as pantomime. Paulus married firstly Cornelia Lentula by whom he had two children: the son being another Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paulus, executed for conspiracy sometime before 14AD, husband of Julia the Younger, grand-daughter of Augustus. BookTwoXII BookThreeIV Antony fled to join him after Mutina. We use cookies for social media and essential site functions. A land extension stretching to the Loire River was added by Augustus, and Aquitania became an imperial province. As prefect he gained the complete confidence of the emperor. BookSevenXLIII Vitellius deferred accepting the title Augustus. Apparently the boy would dedicate his childhood clothes at the lararium. BookFourXXIII Caligula claimed that his mother was the product of Augustuss incest with his daughter Julia the Elder. At a young age, he went to school with Marcus, whom he would later mentor in the Hunger Games. He died in AD 19, possibly poisoned by an agent of Tiberius himself. Brutus sided with Pompey despite the fact that Pompey had had Brutus Snr killed. 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. 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. Massalia however backed Pompey; and when Caesar emerged victorious, Massalia was stripped of its possessions, which were transferred to Arelate. When in February 44BC Caesar was elected dictator for life by the senate, he made Lepidus Master of the Horse, effectively his deputy. Gaius died in 33 of starvation. [32] The emperor denied this request, warning Sejanus that he was in danger of overstepping his rank. He was responsible for many of his military victories, most notably Actium against the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII of Egypt. Lepidus in his younger years was betrothed in 44BC to Antonia the Elder, the eldest daughter of Mark Antony. Apollonia was an Ancient Greek city and colony in northern Epirus, now modern-day Albania, located on the right bank of the Aous River; its ruins are situated in the Fier region, near the village of Pojani. Asillius was a slave or freedman of Augustus. When Sejanus was executed his children were also killed. 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. Astura, now Torre Astura, formerly an island is now a peninsula, and lies on the coast of Latium, at the southeast extremity of the Bay of Antium, on the road to Circeii. ), the angles of the couch corresponding with the joints of the body when in a re- clining position. BookOneLXXXII Prevented Caesars assassins carrying out their plans after the assassination. During the civil war, Gaius was a legate of Julius Caesar (49BC), and entrusted, with Publius Cornelius Dolabella, with the defence of Illyricum against the Pompeians. The boys dissappear (though Everitt attributes this to their unimportance) and Cleopatra Selene is married to the King of Mauretania. I don't know too much about Antony's children. In 59BC, Gaius Octavius died on his way to Rome to stand for the consulship and Atia married Lucius Marcius Philippus, a consul of 56BC and a supporter of Julius Caesar. Lucius Aelius Seianus (3 June 20 BC - 18 October AD 31), commonly known as Sejanus (/sdens/), was a Roman soldier, friend and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. BookTwoVIII BookTwoXIII He formed the Second Triumvirate, with Octavian and Lepidus. He was consul for a second time in 42BC. BookFourXV Caligula awarded her all Livias honours on his accession in 37AD, before her death in October of that year. [35], Despite the withdrawal of Tiberius from Rome's political scene, the presence of Livia seems to have checked Sejanus' overt power for a time. Amazons were a nation of all-female warriors in Classical mythology. In 23BC, when Augustus was seriously ill, Musa cured the illness with cold baths, drinks and compresses, but reputedly failed to save Marcellus in his illness. After Augustus death Roman historians claimed that Agrippas journey to Mytilene was a self-imposed exile as a result of Augustus preference for his own nephew Marcellus. BookFiveI His love for Drusus the Elder, and his praise of him after his death. Sejanus was born in 20 BC in Volsinii, Etruria as the son of Lucius Seius Strabo (46 BC-16 AD). [ 23] BookTwoV He was consul in the year of Augustus birth, 63BC. He succeeded Augustus, who founded the Julio-Claudian dynasty. You may accept or manage cookie usage at any time. This was prefaced with a tongue-in-cheek dedication to Lord Bute, denying that there can be any comparison between the conduct of Sejanus and that of his lordship. In 52BC he probably murdered Publius Clodius Pulcher and was later unsuccessfully defended by his friend Cicero in the Pro Milone speech. He may also have been the father of Acerronia Polla, a friend of Agrippina the Younger, murdered by the emperor Nero in AD59. Sejanus was born into the Plinth family as the only child of Strabo and Mrs. Plinth, a wealthy couple from District 2. A daughter of Rutilia and Lucius Aurelius Cotta, her father was consul in 119BC and her paternal grandfather of the same name was consul in 144BC. Apollo in Greek mythology was the son of Zeus and Leto, and had a twin sister, Artemis. They included Jean de Magnon's rhyming tragedy, Sejanus (1647) and Henri van der Zande's De dood van Elius Sejanus of Spiegel voor der vorsten gunstelingen (The death of Sejanus, a mirror for the favourites of princes, Amsterdam 1716). BookSixXXVIII Nero was rumoured to have had incestuous relations with her. The document has been studied for details of his personal life, for his opinions, and for his attitudes towards his two daughters, Susanna and Judith, and their respective husbands, John Hall and Thomas Quiney.The best-known passage of the will is the bequest to the wife of his . Aurelia Cotta (120BC - 54BC) was the mother of Julius Caesar. From being his "assistant in command," Sejanus became by the year 30 his "partner in toil." Sejanus was married to Tiberius' niece and former daughter-in-law, his images were displayed, sacrificed to, and even worshipped in forums and legionary headquarters around the empire. Sejanus scoffs at superstition, but agrees to have a sacrifice burnt at his personal altar to . 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. BookFiveXXI BookEightXL He had revived the Secular Games in 17BC. W. Thomas, Wilfrid Laurier University 2006. They had several children, but only three survived, Germanicus, Livilla, and Claudius. Founded in 268BC Rimini was a road junction connecting central Italy (to Rome along the Via Flaminia) and northern Italy (along the Via Aemilia that led to Piacenza, and the Via Popilia) and it also opened up trade by sea and river. By AD 23, he exerted a considerable influence over the decisions of the emperor, who referred to Sejanus as "Socius Laborum" (my partner in my toils). BookTwoLXXXVI Augustus praises her accomplishments. The camp was purged of mutineers by the Praetorians and the legions returned to the winter barracks. His sons were Dionysius and Nicanor. 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. It lies in present-day southwest France, where it gives its name to the modern region of Aquitaine. BookSixLII She warned Nero as a boy not to study philosophy. BookOneLXXXII His opinion that only one of the wounds was fatal. Apollonius Molon was a Greek rhetorician who flourished about 70 BC. 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. [63] The political turmoil continued until the death of Tiberius in AD 37, after which he was succeeded by Caligula. Omissions? BookTwoXLIII His grandson Aeserninus was injured in the Troy Game, which led Asinius to complain to Augustus. BookFiveXLIII Claudius appeared to repent of having married her. When Agamemnon returned, Aegisthus treacherously murdered him. Aelia Paetina was the daughter of the consul of 4AD, Sextus Aelius Catus. Aeneas, the mythological Trojan hero, was the son of the mortal Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite. Annius Cimber, Titus was a rhetorician who affected the style of Thucydides. Tacitus portrays Sejanus as one of the most infamous and sinister characters in all of Roman history. BookFiveXLIV Agrippina was accused of poisoning Claudius. Aquitania or Gallia Aquitania was a province of the Roman Empire, bordered by the provinces of Gallia Lugdunensis, Gallia Narbonensis, and Hispania Tarraconensis. The practice of joint leadership between two prefects was abandoned, and Sejanus himself appointed the centurions and tribunes. [93] Later plays include a 5-act tragedy by A.Arterton (1875) and the privately printed Sejanus: A Tragedy in Five Acts by P. J. Sejanus' imperial connections are rightly stressed : his daughter, Junilla, executed in A. D. 31, was betrothed to Claudius' son Drusus while Claudius married Aelia Paetina, daughter of Sejanus' frater patruelis Sex. BookFourXXXI The loss of Varus and his legions was a notable event during his reign. 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. In 27BC the Senate awarded him the honorific Augustus (the revered one). Armenia is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Adminius, Amminius or Amminus was a son of Cunobelinus, ruler of the Catuvellauni, a tribe of Iron Age Britain. BookTwoVIII BookTwoXIII He formed the Second Triumvirate, with Octavian and Antony. He was a native of Alabanda, a pupil of Menecles, and settled at Rhodes. Aemilius Lepidus, Marcus, Lepidus the Younger, (d. 30BC), was the only child of triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. BookTwoXVIII Augustus extended the temple of Apollo at Actium. During Neros reign he was banished from Rome after a forgery charge. BookThreeVII She married Tiberius after 19BC. Arelate, modern Arles, is a city in the south of France, in the former province of Provence. Riots ensued, in which mobs hunted down and killed anyone they could link to Sejanus. Aelius Catus : both alliances were evidence of 1 iberius' appreciation of Sejanus. Lepidus mother was Junia Secunda, a sister to Marcus Junius Brutus. [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. BookTwoL Augustus second seal-ring carried a head of Alexander. He was son-in-law to Augustus, maternal grandfather of the Emperor Caligula, father-in-law of the Emperors Tiberius and Claudius, and maternal great-grandfather of the Emperor Nero. Artabanus II of Parthia ruled the Parthian Empire from about 10AD to 38AD. Tiberius variously announced that he would arrive in Rome the next day or that he was at the point of death. BookThreeLXII His rumoured poisoning of Drusus the Younger. BookTwoXIX Mentioned as seeking to free Julia the Elder from her confinement on the island of Pandateria (between 2BC and 4AD). [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. Antistius was a physician who examined Caesars body after his assassination. BookThreeXLVIII Tiberius doubled the legacies left to the army in Augustus will. [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. BookTwoXVI Mentioned as being on Octavians staff in Sicily. Other historiographers place them in Asia Minor or Libya. BookFiveXX Caligula had the obelisk transported from Heliopolis via Alexandria in 37AD. Eques prin natere, Sejanus a ajuns prefect al Grzii Pretoriene, pe care a condus-o din anul 14 d.Hr pn n anul 31 d.Hr. BookTwoLXX Apollo the Tormentor or Executioner was supposedly a name under which the god was worshipped in Rome. 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