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QUOTE: COV Geographical Context

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“There is that wonderful and life-sustaining and healthy atmosphere that lasts all the year through.” PLINY THE ELDER- NATURAL HISTORY

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QUOTE: Herculaneum Plans and Streetscapes

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“A confused jumble of shops, workshops, crafts, residential and horticultural plots across the whole city”

AWH

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QUOTE: Earthquake

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“Pompeii, the famous city of Campania, has been laid low by an earthquake”- SENECA

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QUOTE: Asphyxiation deaths

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“Respiratory tracts would have become blocked with a plug of mucus and ash or their bodies ‘baked’ in the intense heat.” DR ESTELLE LAZAR

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QUOTE: Umbrella Pine

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“A cloud of unusual size and appearance…It’s general appearance can be best described as being like an umbrella pine…” PLINY THE YOUNGER- LETTERS TO TACITUS

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QUOTE: Most Deadly Surge

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Most deadly surge (4th surge) occurred at approx 7.30 am- 25th August, killing all who remained in the city. HAROLD SIGURDSON

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QUOTE: COV: Women

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She keeps copies of my books to read again and again.” PLINY THE YOUNGER

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QUOTE: COV: Slaves

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“I suspect she was a slave. There are scars on the upper shafts of her humeri…that means she used these bones for heavier work than she should have.” S.C. BISEL- HEALTH AND NUTRITION AT HERCULANEUM

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QUOTE: Group support for politics COV

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“All the mat makers (tegettari) together beg of you to make Lollius aedile.” (CIL IV: 747)

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QUOTE: COV intense politics

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Competition for office was so fierce it was harder to gain a seat in the City Council of Pompeii than in the Roman Senate.” CICERO

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QUOTE: COV Houses

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“Change over time, with a movement from the late republican houses to multiple small independent units” AWH

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QUOTE: COV religion characteristics

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“The most characteristic feature of Roman religion was its essentially political orientation” E. Cantarella

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QUOTE: COV Foreign Cults

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“An escape from worldly reality into mystic communion with the god and the promise of blessed life after death.”L. ZARMATI

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QUOTE: Pompeii Destruction

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“Pompeii is dying a second death” AWH

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QUOTE: COV: Museum display standards

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“Human remains should be displayed in a manner consistent with professional standards.” INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS

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QUOTE: Impact of death of Caesar

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“At the end of the will, too, he adopted Gaius Octavius into his family and gave him his name.”

SUETONIUS: THE TWELVE CAESARS

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QUOTES: Early Career of Octavian (3)

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Antonius had been irritated at Caesar’s favouritism towards a young relative” JONES

“At the age of 19, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I liberated the Republic.” RES GESTAE

“Republic again was at mercy of men who commanded loyalty of the legions.” SCULLARD

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QUOTE: AUG proscriptions

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Proscriptions…brought about a reorientation of loyalties in political bodies” ECK

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QUOTE: Triumvirate ends

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“With Lepidus’ resignation the triumvirate had effectively ceased to exist.” ECK

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QUOTE: BATTLE OF ACTIUM (6)

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“Actium could come as no surprise” AWH

Romans saw battle as; “A symbol of salvation, of the rescue of Rome from destruction” AWH

“Augustus gave the Roman world a new order.” AWH

“Century of civil wars was ended.” SCULLARD

Coin described O as ‘son of God’ printed with Liberator of people on it. ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

“The myth tells us, the threat was not laid to rest with victory. It was permanent: Rome…were ever in danger, for ever in need of a saviour.” AWH

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QUOTE: Dyarchy

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“The dyarchy is a transparent fiction” BURY

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QUOTE: 27 BC Settlement

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“I transferred the state from my own power to the control of the Roman senate and people.” RES GESTAE

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QUOTE: 23 BC Settlement

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“After that time I excelled all in authority, but I possessed no more power than the others who were my colleagues in each magistry.” RES GESTAE

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QUOTE: Image of Aug

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“To break an oath by Augustus,to deface his image…was to show disrespect to his greatness.” AWH

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QUOTE: Equestrians

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“Thus Augustus succeeded in building up an efficient body of salaried professional administrators.” SCULLARD

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QUOTE: AUG Freedmen

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“He was not, however, hostile to wealthy and public-spirited freedmen gaining some social recognition.”JONES

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QUOTE: Revive Senate

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Aug went out of his way to revive the traditional senate.” AWH

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QUOTE: Social Reform

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“He attempted to regenerate society by social reform.” SCULLARD

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QUOTE: Repair Temples; Propaganda

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“I repaired 82 temples of the gods in the city,” RES GESTAE

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QUOTE: Virgil

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“related well to the policy which Augustus pursued in encouraging the role of small farmers in Italian agriculture.” SHOTTER

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QUOTE: JULIA 1 (DAUGHTER) (2)

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“He appears to have been too strict on his daughter Julia JONES

“He let her waste away to death, exiled and disgraced, by slow starvation.” TACITUS

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QUOTE: LIVIA

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“Her greatest service to the Romans lay in her devotion to Octavian and in the civilising influence she brought to bear on him.” PAYNE

“All of her images and actions were closely connected with marriage, family and traditional Roman morality” MCMANUS

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QUOTE: Agrippa

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“probably the only man whom he could absolutely trust.” JONES

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QUOTE: AUG DEATH

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“Some suspected his wife of foul play.” TACITUS

“Then two pieces of news became known simultaneously: Augustus was dead and Tiberius was in control.” TACITUS

“an ex-parameter actually swore that he had seen Augustus’ spirit soaring up to Heaven through the flames.” SUETONIUS

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QUOTE: AUG ULTIMATE LEGACY

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“Ultimate legacy of Augustus was sweep of stability that the Roman world gained.” TACITUS

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QUOTE: AUG Praetorian Guard

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Theoretically it was the princeps’ bodyguard.” SALMON

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QUOTES: AUG Army (3)

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“…was about 500,000. Of these I settled in colonies or sent back into their own towns more than 300,000, and to all I assigned lands or gave money as a reward for military service.” RES GESTAE

“Seduced the army with bonuses.” TACITUS

“as a result of military victories won for them by troops loyal to them.” SHOTTER

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QUOTE: Settlements: Subjects

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“In Augustus, these subjects had in political patron whose duty it was to take care of the whole empire ” ECK

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QUOTE: AG: ROLE OF WOMEN (2)

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“Betrothals were broken or divorces dictated when alliances between men became animosities.” POMEROY

“To mind the house and watch over the children.” TACITUS

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QUOTE: AG BACKGROUND & FAM (4)

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“Agrippina’s exceptionally illustrious birth is indisputable.” TACITUS, ANNALS

“Her pedigree was impeccable.” S. PEROWNE

“Agrippina…would make much of her Julian descent, a descent that came through the bloodline and was not conferred merely through adoption.” BARRETT

“True, Renaissance man.” SUETONIUS

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QUOTE: AG EARLY LIFE (3)

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“The triumph of Germanicus…was a memory that his daughter would exploit to the full.” BARRETT

“It was the 1st specific political movement formed by a woman.” BAUMANN

“Mother and son were left to starve in their separate places of imprisonment…she must have been the single most important influence on her daughter and namesake.” M.T.GRIFFIN

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QUOTE: Marriage 1

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“It is interesting to note that they thought it best not to have children while Tiberius was still alive.” T. WEIDEMANN

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QUOTE: Marriage 2

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“Agrippina, remembering the weakness of her mother’s position after the death of Germanicus, set out to find a husband.” GRIFFIN

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QUOTE: Marriage 3

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Was in the habit of consulting him constantly…and in fact she was rather more familiar in her conduct towards him than became a niece.” CASSIUS DIO

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QUOTE: Prepared for throne

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“She was no paragon of female virtue..she was prepared, if necessary, to wade through slaughter to a throne.” SALMON

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QUOTE: Messalina Downfall

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“Had gone so far as to commit bigamy…so Claudius executed her.” SUETONIUS

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QUOTE: Influence on Claudius

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“Agrippina used her influence over Claudius not only to consolidate Nero’s claims, but also to enhance her own position.” BAUMAN

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QUOTE: Early relationship with Nero

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At first Agrippina managed for him all the business of the empire…” CASSIUS DIO

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QUOTE: Loss of influence with Nero

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“Agrippina’s loss of influence is illustrated by the disappearance of her portrait from the coinage.” WEIDEMANN

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QUOTE: Ag Depictions on statue

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“Depictions of Agrippina on coinage and statuary…appears as matron and priestess…a central figure in the continuity of the dynasty.” GRUEN

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QUOTE: LET HIM LIVE (AG)

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“This was the end which Agrippina had anticipated for years. When she asked astrologers…they answered he would become emperor but kill his mother. Her reply was “Let him kill me- provided he becomes emperor.” TACITUS

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QUOTE: Matricide

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The matricide remains…” WARMINGTON

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QUOTE: Ag Death (2)

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“Her death caused changes in her son’s behaviour.” GRANT

“She cried out, strike here-pointing to her womb” Tacitus

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QUOTE: Ag first on coin

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“Agrippina became the first woman during her lifetime to share with a reigning princeps the face of an official coin minted in Rome.” BARRETT

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QUOTE: AG SALMON (3)

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“Agrippina destroyed rivals, enemies and those whose wealth she desired.”

“Undoubtedly,she was hoping one day to rule the world through her son.”

“She was prepared if necessary to wade through slaughter to a throne.”

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QUOTE: AG BARRETT (2)

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“It is when Agrippina is judged by her achievements, rather than by her personality or character, that she demands admiration.”

“The Roman imperial system was unfair to women like Agrippina.”

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QUOTE: Gift of Nile

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“Egypt is the gift of the Nile.” HERODOTUS (Greek historian)

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QUOTE: Hymn to Harpi

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“None can live without you.”

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QUOTE: Role of Vizier

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“He dispatches every official of the Royal domain…”Tomb of REKHMIRE (vizier of Thutmose III)

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QUOTE: Tax evasion

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“He is beaten savagely.” LANSING PAPYRUS

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QUOTE: BOOTY

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“living prisoners: 340. Hands:83…One fine coat of mail belonging to the enemy.”

Annals of Thutmose III records some booty taken after surrender of Megiddo:

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QUOTE: Mummification

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They…draw out the brain through the nostrils.” HERODOTUS

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QUOTE: KARNAK

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“The holy hill of the beginning” HATSHEPSUT

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QUOTE: LUXOR

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“Three quarters constructed by a single king.” HAYES

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QUOTE: NKE Gold

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“Gold was the favoured metal for jewellery” FREED, EGYPT’S GOLDEN AGE

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QUOTE: Love Poetry

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“My heart flutters hastily when I think of my love for you.” BE STILL MY HEART

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QUOTE: Be a Scribe PAPYRUS LANSING

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“Put the writings in your heart, and you will be protected from all kinds of toil. You will become a wort

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QUOTE: WISDOM LITERATURE:: INSTRUCTIONS OF ANI

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“Take a wife while you are young; that she make a song for you.”

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