Generosity

Question 1

Secular games

Answer 1

Secular games celebrated, only 64 years after those of Augustus (he says the calculations of both emperors were wrong and those he did under Domitian’s reign were correct)

Question 2

What performances were there in his secular games

and link to successor

Answer 2

Performances in the circus where, In the emperor’s presence, youthful horsemen of noble birth performed the Troy Pageant. Among them Britannicus and Ahenobarbus (later adopted as Nero). Ahenobarbus received greater applause seen as prophetic (a fable that snakes watched over him as a child) his popularity was inherited through being the only surviving male descendant of Germanicus.

Question 3

debtors

during MEssalina

Answer 3

passed a law against harsh treatment of debtors

Forbidding loans to minors which was to be repayed after their father’s deaths

Question 4

constructions

during MEssalina

Answer 4

-constructed an aqueduct to convey streams from the Simbruine hills into Rome

Question 5

letters

during MEssalina

Answer 5

Introduced and popularised new latin characters

-a little story of the first writing, it’s progress until Latin. The three letters he invented have now become obsolete

Question 6

soothsayers

during MEssalina

Answer 6

proposed an establishment of a board of soothsayers,
“oldest italian art” should not die out
in times of disaster, their consultation has caused the revival and more correct subsequent observance of religious ceremonies.
senate decreed that the priests consider which institutions of the soothsayers required upkeep and support.