Deaths Flashcards
Romulus
-Swept up into a storm
-Near Lapis Niger
-Spoke to Julius Proculus in a vision
Numa Pompilius
Natural
Tullus Hostilius
-Struck by lighting
-Had performed the rights to Jupiter Elicius wrong
Ancus Marcius
Natural
Tarquinius Priscus
-Axe to the head
-Done by the sons of Ancus Marcius
-The sons went into exile to Suessa Pometia after
Servius Tullius
-Run over by a chariot by his daughter Tullia Minor
-On the Via Scelerata
Tarquinius Superbus
-Natural
-In Cumae
Mettius Fufetius
-Tied between two chariots and pulled apart
-Because his loyalties were “split between two cities”
Arruns
-Killed by Lucius Junius Brutus
-Battle of Silva Arsia in 509 BC
Lucius Junius Brutus
-Killed by Arruns
-Battle of Silva Arsia in 509 BC
Octavius Mamilius
-Killed by Titus Herminius
-Battle of Lake Regillus (496 BC)
Coriolanus
-Killed by Volsci after returning
Virginia
-Stabbed by her father Virginius
-Kept her pure
Marcus Manlius Capitolinus
-Thrown off Tarpeian Rock
-People said he was trying to become a king
Publius Decius Mus (OG)
-Commits devotio
-Battle of Mt Vesuvius (340 BC)
Publius Decius Mus (Jr.)
-Commits devotio
-Battle of Sentinum (295 BC)
Pyrhhus
-Rooftile thrown my mother of enemy soldier
-Battle of Argos (272 BC)
Regulus
-Put in a barrel with spikes and rolled down a hill
-After being defeated by Xanthippus
C. Flaminius
-Killed at Lake Trasimene (217 BC)
Paullus
-Battle of Cannae (216 BC)
-Varro lived
Archimedes
-Siege of Syracus (213-212 BC)
Hasdrubal Barca
-Battle of Metaurus River (207 BC)
-Head thrown in Hannibal’s camp
Tiberius Gracchus
-Killed with 300 followers
-Mob led by Scipio Nasica
Gaius Gracchus
-Killed with 3000 followers
-Mob led by L. Opimius
Marius
-Most likely naturally
-Only a few days into his 86 BC consulship
-Replaced by Flaccus
Jugurtha
-Strangled to death in the Mamertine Prison
Saturninus
-Roof tiles thrown at him
Sulla
-Naturally
M. Livius Drusus
-Assassinated
-Led to the Social War
Mithridates VI
-Suicide
-63 BC
Crassus
-Molten gold poured down his throat
-Battle of Carrhae (53 BC)
Pompey
-Killed in Alexandria
-After the Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC)
Julius Caesar
-March 15, 44 BC
-Cassius and M. Junius Brutus
Vercingetorix
-Tullianum
-Beheaded/strangled
Cato the Younger
-Killed himself in Utica
-After hearing about the loss at Thapsus (46 BC)
Titus Labienus
-Battle of Munda (45 BC)
Pansa
-Died from injuries at Forum Gallorum before Mutina
Hirtius
-Dies at Mutina (43 BC)
Decimus Brutus
-Executed by one of Antony’s men after Mutina
Augustus
-Died in Nola (in Italy)
-Naturally
Heirs:
-Marcellus
-Agrippa
-Gaius + Lucius Caesar
-Agrippa Postumus
-Drusus I
-Tiberius
Quinctilius Varus
-Kills himself after Teutoburg Forest
Drusus I
-Fell off horse and died
Agrippa Postumus
-Killed shortly into Tiberius’s reign
Germanicus
-Possibly killed by Tiberius
-Possibly killed by Cn. Calpurnius Piso
Tiberius Gamellus
-Killed by Caligula
-Didn’t want to co-rule
Caligula
-Killed by Cassius Chaerea
-Member of the Praetorian Guard
Claudius
-Poisoned by wife Agrippina the Younger
-Poison mushrooms from Locusta
Agrippina the Younger
-Poisoned by her son, Nero
-Poison from Locusta
Pompeia
-Killed by Nero
-Kicked in the stomach (baby also died)
Seneca the Younger
-Forced by Nero to commit suicide
-Accused to be part of the Pisonian Conspiracy
Domitius Corbulo
-Forced by Nero to commit suicide
Nero
-Commits suicide in 68 AD
Boudicca
-Illness or suicide by poison
Galba
-Killed by Praetorian Guard
Clodius Macer
-Galba has him killed
-Cut off grain supply
Otho
-Suicide at First Battle of Bedriacum
Vespasian
-Natural
-Said “Vae, puto deus fio!” before his death (Alas! I think I’m becoming a god)
-79 AD
Titus
-Died of a plague
-81 AD
Domitian
-Stephanus (slave) kills him, with the help of Domitia (wife)
-96 AD
-Damnatio Memoriae
Nerva
-Natural
-98 Ad
Trajan
-Died on the way back to Rome after fighting the Parthians
-117 AD
Antinous
-Drowned in the Nile
-Cult made around him
-Antinoopolis
Hadrian
-Natural
-Antoninus Pius had him deified
-138 AD
Antoninus Pius
-Natural
-161 AD
Lucius Verus
-Likely the Antonine Plague
-169 AD
Marcus Aurelius
-Possibly the Antonine Plague
-While on the Marcommanic campaigns
-Last words were “Go to the rising sun; I am already setting.”
-180 AD
Commodus
-Strangled by Narcissus (wrestling partner)
-Marcia (mistress) had failed to poison him
-Dec. 31, 192 AD
Pertinax
-Killed by Praetorian Guard, led by Laetus
-193 AD
Didius Julianus
-Killed by Praetorian Guard
-193 AD
Pescennius Niger
-Beheaded after Issus
-194 AD
Clodius Albinus
-Killed after Lugdunum
-197 AD
Septimius Severus
-Natural
-Died at Eboracum
-211 AD
Geta
-Killed by Caracalla
-Damnatio Memoriae
-212 AD
Caracalla
-Killed in Carrhae when urinating on the side of the road
-Orchestrated by Macrinus
-217 AD
Macrinus
-Executed after the Battle of Antioch
-Orchestrated by Julia Maesa
-218 AD
Diadumenianus
-Killed with father after Antioch
-218 AD
Elagabalus
-Killed when hiding in a latrine
-Orchestrated by Julia Maesa
-Body then thrown in the Tiber
-222 AD
Severus Alexander
-Killed by Maximinus Thrax
-235 AD
Ulpian
-Killed by Praetorian Guard in front of Severus Alexander
Maximinus Thrax
-Killed by his own soldiers
-238 AD
Gordian I
-Grief and suicide when his son died
-238 AD
Gordian II
-Killed in battle
-238 AD
Pupienus and Balbinus
-Killed by Praetorian Guard
-238 AD
Gordian III
-Died in battle
-244 AD
Philip the Arab
-Killed by Decius
-Battle of Verona
-249 AD
Decius
-Killed at the Battle of Abrittus
-Battle was against Cniva and the Goths
-251 AD
Trebonius Gallus
-Killed by his own troops (in favor of Aurelius Aemilianus)
-253 AD
Aurelius Aemilianus
-Killed by his own troops (in favor of Valerian)
-253 AD
Valerian
-Died in captivity of Shapur I
-260 AD
Gallienus
-Killed by own troops
-268 AD
Claudius Gothicus
-Died of the plague
-Knew this would be his fate from the Sibyline books
-270 AD
Aurelian
-Killed by Praetorian Guard
-275 AD
Tacitus
Killed by his own soldiers
Two people wanted the throne after his death:
-Probus (magister equitum)
-Florianus (Praetorian Prefect)
-Florianus was killed by his own men and Probus became emperor
-276 AD
Probus
-Killed by his own soldiers
-Worked them too hard
-282 AD
Carus
-Maybe natural
-Maybe lightning
-Maybe Aper
Numerian
-Assassination planned by Aper
Carinus
-Died at the Battle of Margus River
Carausius
-Killed by Electus
Diocletian
-Natural
-Died in Salona (Split)
Constantine
-Natural
-Baptized on deathbed
Julian the Apostate
-Killed by a spear at the Battle of Ctesiphon
-Fighting Shapur II and the Sesanids
Jovian
Mysterious/unknown death
Valentinian I
-Died giving an angry speech/negotiations with Quadi
Valens
Died in the Battle of Adrianople (378 AD) by Fritigern of the Ostrogoths
Gratian
-Killed after fighting Magnus Maximus
Theodosius
-Died in Milan (Mediolanum)
-395 AD
Stilicho
-Honorius has him killed in 408 AD
Aetius
-Killed by Valentinian III
-Convinced to do this by Petronius Maximus
Valentinian III
-Murdered by Petronius Maximus
Petronius Maximus
-Killed by a Roman mob outside the city for trying to abandon when the Vandals sacked Rome