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1
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Tiberius date of birth

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42 bc

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Tiberius’ attitude

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Hated being emporer

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3
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Minor conspiracy against Tiberius

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Scribonius libo drussus-16
Gaius Sirius- 24

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Tiberius’ son

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Drussus 2

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Tiberius’ first heir

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Germanicus

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Tiberius’ rhine revolt

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Quelled by germanicus and drussus 2 14-16ad germanicus gets massive triumph in 17 ad and a consulship in 18

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Germanicus’ death

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When he returned to Syria from Egypt rumor says that calpurnius piso poisoned him agrippina the elder widow of germanicus blames Tiberius

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Drussus consulship

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21

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9
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Drussus 2’s death

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In 23 ad leading to Nero and drussus 3 (sons of agrippina) being recognized as heirs

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Aelius sejanus

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Tiberius’ praetorian prefect, basically emporer palapatine

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29ad internal affairs

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Agrippina exiled with Nero and drussus at the order of sejanus via Tiberius

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Sejanus 23

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Becomes effective master of the city via his praetorian guard’s intimidation

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Sejanus 26

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Convinces Tiberius to stay on Capra forever

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14
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Sejanus revealed

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Antonia tattles

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Sejanus’ downfall

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Sutorius macro takes control of the praetorians and vigiles and traps sejanus while in a senate meeting presided by Memmius regulus where he thought he was to be made heir but was instead sentenced to death

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16
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The death of agrippina the elder

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Her and her sons save Gaius who was imprisoned on Capri were executed

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17
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Murderer of drussus 2

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Sejanus

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18
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Tiberius’ reign of terror

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Became hugely suspicious after the affair with sejanus and wildly prosecuted treason

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The end of tiberius’ reign

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Spent on capri untill his death in 37 his powers falling to germanicus’ son Gaius by default who will hereafter be referred to a Caligula [

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20
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Caligula’s early reign

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Great, games abound, taxes reduced, exiles rescinded, praetorians given double their promised bounty, and good finances maintained

21
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Caligula’s latter reign

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After a stroke in 37, he colloquially speaking, went off the rails of the metaphorical crazy train, he killed macro and Tiberius gemmellus, he squandered money, tried to be defied in life, made his horse inctatus consul etc.

22
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The first conspiricy on Caligula

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Led by lentulus gaetulicus sought to make aemilius Lepidus emporer in Caligula’s place caused the exile of agrippina the younger and Julia

23
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Caligula’s death

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Cassius chaehrea executes Caligula while acting as his praetorian prefect and than pits Claudius in charge 41

24
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Claudius’ age at assension

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50

25
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Claudius’ appearance

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Ugly, had a stutter

26
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Claudius’ final two wives

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Manipulative and dangerous

27
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Cammilus scribonianus

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Led a conspiracy against Claudius as governor of Dalmatia with the help of annius vinicianus

28
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C. Silius and Claudius

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In 48 the former out of lover for messalina attempted a coup, thwarted by narcissus

29
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Claudius’ first heir

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Brittanicus, son of messalina

30
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The succession of Claudius

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Agrippina supplants Britainicus with Nero with the help of burrus

31
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Claudius’ death

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54 ad

32
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Claudius and the Jewish

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Allowed freedom of religion but prevented meetings in Rome and eventually expelled them from Rome

33
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Nero’s age at accenssion

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16

34
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Nero’s regent

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A point of contention between senaca the younger, burrus, and agrippina

35
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Brittanicus’ death

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After agrippina almost favors him Nero gas him killed

36
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Nero and pompeia Sabina

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She was wife of Otho and was not supported by agrippina who favored Octavia, a better political match, and so with the help of senaca and burrus got Nero to have his mother killed in 59

37
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Anicetus

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Killer of agrippina, first tried to have her drown then just stabbed her in 59ad

38
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The games of Nero

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Established new holidays, iuvenalia and neronia, celebrated with games In The style of the Greek Olympic Gamesand involving his public singing

39
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The end of Nero’s good times

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Burrus dies in 62 and senaca retires they are replaced by the prefect tigellinus

40
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The divorce of Octavia

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Nero divorces her and bannishes/executes her on trumped up charges of adultery with ancitus after Seneca’s retirement

41
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Nero’s second wife

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Poppeia Sabina ex of Otho

42
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Tigellinus

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Incompetent evil enabler of nero

43
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Nero’s tour of Greece

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Despite alligatations of mass profligacy he goes on an arts tour of Greece from 67-68 ad which neat;y bankrupted the empire

44
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Tigellinus’ reign of terrors

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proscriptions forced suicides including senaca and Petronius - standered fare

45
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Great fire of Rome

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Nero actually does an ok job at managing it but he also builds a massive pleasure palace called the domus aurea which sours public opinion

46
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Nero and Christianity

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He blamed them for the fire and burned them at the stake

47
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Paetius thrasia

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A stoic philosopher killed in 66 ad by Nero for “occasional veiled criticism” of Nero

48
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Cn. Domitius corubolo

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General that Nero put to death without trial

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