cruelty

Question 1

Sham sea fight on the Fucine lake

Answer 1

-the gladiators refused to fight due to what he said (that they may not die for him) he grew so angry he was on the point of sending troops to massacre them or burn them all in their ships.
Instead he hobbled ridiculously down to the lakeside threatened and coaxed them to battle.

Question 2

members of his extended family

Answer 2

• Killed members of his extended familly (Julia, daughter of his own brother Germanicus) all on uncertain charges and without the right to plead self-defence
• Gnaeus Pompeius who had married his daughter Antonia, stabbed to death in bed
• Lucius Silanus betrothed to his daughter Octavia, forced to resign his praetorship and then to commit suicide on the day Claudius married Agrippina

Question 3

Senators

Answer 3

• EXECUTED 35 senators with so little concern

Question 4

Equites

Answer 4

• EXECUTED 300 Roman equites, with so little concern.

Question 5

torture

Answer 5

If evidence had to be extracted by torture he would make it proceed without delay in his own presence.

Question 6

ancient style tibur

Answer 6

• an execution in ancient style at Tibur (victim stripped naked, head thrust into a wooden fork and flogged to death with sticks) no executioner could be found to carry it out. A specialist from Rome and he waited until dusk for his arrival to witness the procedure.

Question 7

at gladiator shows

Answer 7

• at gladiator shows people who fell had to have their throats cut especially net fighters, as the death agony was visible as no helmet.
• • Sent for the mortally wounded swords to be made for pocket knives for his personal use
• Spent daybreak till noon in the amphitheater, dismissed the audience, watched the regular combats but composed others between stage carpenters and the theatre staff as punishment for the failure of any mechanical device.
• Forced one of his attendants to enter the arena and fight in his toga

Question 8

Innocent people he banished without a hearing were:

Answer 8

• a clerk who had treated him contemptuously in a court case before his accession.
• a senator of praetorian rank, had fined his tenants for illegally selling cooked food and whipping his bailiff because he protested.