Livilla committed suicide or was starved to death by her mother Antonia Minor. He was taken from prison and strangled, after which his body was cast onto the Gemonian stairs. It is conventional to call him Octavius when referring to events between 63BC and 44BC, Octavian (or Octavianus) when referring to events between 44BC and 27BC, and Augustus when referring to events after 27BC. Adminius, Amminius or Amminus was a son of Cunobelinus, ruler of the Catuvellauni, a tribe of Iron Age Britain. BookFourVIII A letter of his quoted regarding Caligula. BookFiveXLI She warned the young Claudius over the sensitivity of the work on history he was writing. And Caesar's famous clemency did not profit him on the Ides of March. BookOneI He interceded on behalf of the young Julius Caesar. A. Chaulk (1923), A later fictional treatment of the historical episode appeared as the first story of Edward Maturin's Sejanus, and Other Roman Tales (New York 1839). [91][92] Later there was another recycling of Jonson's tragedy in England by the Irish actor Francis Gentleman. As early as AD 20, Sejanus had sought to solidify his connection with the imperial family by betrothing his daughter Junilla to the son of Claudius, Claudius Drusus. Lucius Aelius Sejanus (c. 20 BC - 18 October AD 31), commonly known as Sejanus (), was a Roman soldier, friend and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius.Of the Equites class by birth, Sejanus rose to power as prefect of the Praetorian Guard (the Roman imperial bodyguard), of which he was commander from AD 14 until his execution for treason in AD 31. previous next Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 last [52] Although the Praetorian Guard proved faithful to the aging Tiberius, their potential political power had been made clear. Pliny estimated the vessels size at a thousand metric tons or so. [13] A statue had been erected in his honor in the Theatre of Pompey,[19] and in the Senate, his followers were advanced with public offices and governorships. The year of the reorganization of the Praetorians ac-cording to Dio (7), was 20, and the same year Sejanus' daughter, Junilla, was promised to . Paulus reconstructed the Basilica Aemilia in Rome, with part of his bribery money. [51][52] On October 18, AD 31, Sejanus was summoned to a Senate meeting by a letter from Tiberius, ostensibly to bestow the tribunician powers upon him. The stock comic characters may have formed the basis for the characters of the Commedia dell'arte, and Punch and Judy. BookTwoIX BookTwoXI BookTwoXX BookTwoXLIX Defeated by Augustus (Octavian) at Mutina and finally at Actium. BookTwoLXIV Her marriage to Germanicus, between 5BC and 1BC. BookFourX Caligula lived with her until her exile. Background Sejanus was born in 20 BC at Volsinii, Etruria, into the family of Lucius Seius Strabo. BookThreeXLVIII Tiberius paid a bounty to those Praetorian guards and Syrian legions who did not acknowledge Sejanus. [55] The remaining children of Sejanus, Capito Aelianus and Junilla, were executed in December of that year. At dawn, he entered the Senate; while the letter was being read, Macro assumed control of the Praetorian Guard, and members of the vigiles, led by Publius Graecinius Laco, surrounded the building. After the death of Drusus (23 ce), he began to systematically attack the position of Drususs mother, Vipsania Agrippina, whose sons were Tiberiuss probable heirs. Amazons were a nation of all-female warriors in Classical mythology. BookFiveXLV Claudius died during his consulship. The remaining children of Sejanus, Capito Aelianus and Junilla, were executed in December of that year.Tacitus, Annals V.9 According to ancient historians, because there was no precedent for the capital punishment of a virgin, Junilla was raped before her execution, with the rope around her neck. He was politically allied to Sulla, but once the dictator had resigned in 79BC, Lepidus attempted to undermine the Sullan constitution. Tiberius was the second Emperor of Rome, reigning from A.D. 14-37. With Apicata, Sejanus had two sons, Strabo and Capito Aelianus, and a daughter, Junilla. BookSixXIX Nero abandoned his planned tour to Alexandria due to a portent. BookSevenIX Galba received a request for aid from its governor. Asillius was a slave or freedman of Augustus. BookEightXXX Titus attended the Apis bulls consecration ceremony at Memphis. BookFiveXIX BookFiveXXIII BookSixX The Lex Papia Poppaea was a law of 9AD to encourage and strengthen marriage. I don't believe under the Republic proper there were such instances (but Augustus famously had Caesarion murdered). b) by intermarrying with the ruling house: there was Livilla and her daughter, there was Gemellus, there was Claudius' children etc. Aelius Seianus, Lucius, known as Sejanus (d. 31AD) was an Equestrian by birth, the son of Lucius Seius Strabo who became Governor of Egypt, and succeeded his father as prefect of the Imperial bodyguard, the Praetorian Guard, which he commanded from 14AD until his death in 31AD. This is the oldest peripteral (possessing a row of columns on each side) Doric temple in the world. Agrippina and Livilla were exiled by their brother to the Pontine Islands. The boys dissappear (though Everitt attributes this to their unimportance) and Cleopatra Selene is married to the King of Mauretania. Antistius, Lucius, was a tribune of the people, and a member of the gens Antistia a well-known plebeian family. Cleopatra and Antonius children probably weren't consider Romans and as such they could be spared, it's also importand to remember that the civil war against Antonius was allways presented as a war against Egypt and Cleopatra and it's may be another factor in Octavian decision to spare some of Antonius children. BookTwoXIX Mentioned as seeking to free Julia the Elder from her confinement on the island of Pandateria (between 2BC and 4AD). He then made his way to Rome. [11] Augustus was careful however to uphold the republican veneer of this regime, and only allowed nine cohorts to be formed (one fewer than in a normal Roman legion), which were inconspicuously scattered across various lodging houses in the city, and commanded by two prefects. Aufidia, was a daughter of the Roman Magistrate Marcus Aufidius Lurco Her father originally came from Fundi (modern Fondi) She married the future praetor, Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus. Appuleius, Sextus, was related to Augustus, and a consul in the year of Augustus death. It took several years to determine the framework of laws under which the former republican state was led by a sole ruler; the result being the Roman Empire. Aquitania or Gallia Aquitania was a province of the Roman Empire, bordered by the provinces of Gallia Lugdunensis, Gallia Narbonensis, and Hispania Tarraconensis. "His children also were put to death by decree, the girl (whom he had betrothed to the son of Claudius) having been first outraged by the public executioner on the principle that . BookThreeXVII He refused proposals for Tiberius to be granted an honorific surname, in 9AD, but reiterated that Tiberius was his heir. BookThreeXIII Augustus recalled Tiberius in 2AD, with Gaius agreement. [55][56] The accusations were further corroborated by confessions from Livilla's slaves, who, under torture, admitted to having administered the poison to Drusus.[57]. Sallustius Lucullus, Roman governor of Britain in the late 1st century may have been a son of this prince. Like Dyrrachium further north, it was an important port on the Illyrian coast as the most convenient link between Brundusium and northern Greece, and as one of the western starting points of the Via Egnatia leading east to Thessaloniki and Byzantium in Thrace. BookFourLII Caligula took Alexanders breastplate from the sarcophagus there. [78], Sejanus' fall is depicted in the section in Juvenal's Satire X on the emptiness of power. [The story should be read with caution. [46] According to Juvenal, a letter was sent from Capri with orders to execute Sejanus without a trial. After the alliance between his father and Octavian ended, the engagement was terminated. The tomb was ultimately lost some time in the 4th century AD. He recalls an encounter with the Sibyl, who recognizes him from his stutter and tells him that his account will be famous in 1900 years time. Quite, but your perspective is modern and caring. Aelia Paetina married Claudius in 28AD, as his second wife. Aelius Seianus, Lucius, known as Sejanus (d. 31AD) was an Equestrian by birth, the son of Lucius Seius Strabo who became Governor of Egypt, and succeeded his father as prefect of the Imperial bodyguard, the Praetorian Guard, which he commanded from 14AD until his death in 31AD. He was an important supporter and the loyal friend of Gaius Julius Caesar as a military commander and administrator, being Caesars second cousin, once removed, by his mother Julia Antonia. BookSixL She helped to deposit Neros ashes in the family tomb. Asinius Epicadus, a man of mixed race and Parthian descent, conspired against Augustus, hatching a plot to liberate Agrippa Postumus from exile on the island of Planasia. They condemned Sejanus. However the betrothal was later broken off. His most important literary work was the Libri posteriores a systematic exposition of the common law. BookFourXV Caligula recovered her ashes from Pandataria in 37AD. [6], According to the ancient historian Tacitus, Sejanus was also a former favourite of the wealthy Marcus Gavius Apicius, whose daughter may have been Sejanus' first wife Apicata. BookOneIII Julius Caesar contemplated joining his faction. The Senate and the populace rejoiced as his body was dragged through the streets, and a long reign of terror ensued against his adherents. He raised Atias children alongside his own son and daughter from a previous marriage and arranged Octavias first marriage, to the consul and senator Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor. BookTwoXCII Augustus exchanged the island for that of Capri, with Naples, in 6AD. He became tutor to Claudius. His father, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, had been involved in a rebellion against the Republic which led to his death. [63] The political turmoil continued until the death of Tiberius in AD 37, after which he was succeeded by Caligula. The same teenage boy also straight-out assaulted David Cain right after laying eyes on his daughter Cassandra. Apollo in Greek mythology was the son of Zeus and Leto, and had a twin sister, Artemis. As prefect he gained the complete confidence of the emperor. After Caesars murder, he proposed an agrarian law in favor of the people and Caesars veterans, and took part in the operations at Mutina (43BC). Acerronius Proculus, Gnaeus, was consul in 37AD, the year in which Tiberius died. He was raised to the throne by those Parthians who refused to acknowledge Vonones I, whom Augustus had sent from Rome (where he lived as hostage) to succeed his father Phraates IV. BookThreeXII Tiberius uneasy relationship with Augustus 6BC to 2AD. The author BookFourXXXVI Accused of incest with her brother Caligula. A praetor in 49BC, he ran Rome while Caesar defeated Pompey in Spain, and was rewarded with the consulship in 46BC after the defeat of the Pompeians in the East. Apis or Hapis, was a bull-deity symbolic of strength and fertility worshipped in the Memphis region of Egypt. BookTwoXVII Augustus met with a storm at sea between there and the Peloponnese in 30BC. The Romans took the town in 123BC and expanded it into an important city, with a canal link to the Mediterranean in 104BC. In AD 31, despite his equestrian rank, Sejanus shared the consulship with Tiberius in absentia,[41] and finally became betrothed to Livilla. According to Anthony Everitt's Augustus Antyllus and Caesarion were killed because their parents had them perform their coming of age ceremonies. Timon of Athens (The Life of Tymon of Athens) is a play written by William Shakespeare and probably also Thomas Middleton in about 1606. During the civil war, Gaius was a legate of Julius Caesar (49BC), and entrusted, with Publius Cornelius Dolabella, with the defence of Illyricum against the Pompeians. BookSixV The mother of Gnaeus Domitius, Neros father. Antonius, Marcus (Antyllus) (47BC - 30BC) or Marcus Antonius the Younger, also known as Antonius or Antyllus, was the son of Mark Antony by Fulvia. BookOneLXXXIV His speech before Caesars bier in the Campus Martius. BookThreeLXXII He fell ill at Astura in 37AD before carrying on to Circeii and then Misenum where he died. He was the great grandfather of Julius Tigranes, King of Armenia under Nero. BookSixXXXIX Lucius Caesennius Paetus, governor of Cappadocia suffered a humiliating defeat at the Battle of Rhandeia in 62AD, losing the legions of XII Fulminata commanded by Calvisius Sabinus and IIII Scythica commanded by Funisulanus Vettonianus. In 43BC, Octavian joined forces with Mark Antony and Lepidus in the Second Triumvirate, which was eventually torn apart, Lepidus being driven into exile, while Antony committed suicide after his defeat at the Battle of Actium by Octavians fleet commanded by Agrippa, in 31BC. BookFiveXXV Claudius stopped sick slaves being abandoned on the Island. Arrecinus Clemens, Marcus was brother to Arrecina Tertulla, the first wife of the Emperor Titus. Gaius died in 33 of starvation. Sejanus was related through his mother to the distinguished senatorial family Cornelii Lentuli. BookThreeXLVII BookThreeLXXIV BookFourXXI BookFourXXII The Temple of Divus Augustus was built between the Palatine and Capitoline, behind the Basilica Julia, on the site of the house that Augustus had inhabited before he entered public life. Aemilia Lepida (b. c. 5BC) was the eldest daughter and first born child of Julia the Younger (the first granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus) and the consul Lucius Aemilius Paullus. Sejanus was born into the Plinth family as the only child of Strabo and Mrs. Plinth, a wealthy couple from District 2. He fought and almost completely subdued the tribes in 56BC, though rebellions ensued up to 27BC - 28BC, Agrippa gaining a great victory over the Gauls of Aquitania in 38BC. He was the uncle to Julius Caesar through Caesars mother, Aurelia Cotta. Sejanus' brother Lucius Seius Tubero, who became suffect consul in AD 18, was thought to have been a paternal half-brother, from his father Strabo marrying a daughter of Quintus Aelius Tubero[3]:p. 76 but Syme has rejected this, instead he believes that Lucius Seius Tubero was Junia Blaesa's son from a marriage to Quintus Aelius Tubero whom Strabo adopted upon marrying Junia. Agrippina the Younger, Julia Agrippina, or Agrippinilla (Little Agrippina) after 50AD known as Julia Augusta Agrippina (c. 16AD 59AD) was sister of Caligula, niece and fourth wife of Claudius and the mother of Nero. Tiberius was the stepson of Augustus, and their relationship is hotly debated by historians. [62] Arrests and executions were now supervised by Naevius Sutorius Macro, who succeeded Sejanus as the Prefect of the Praetorian Guard. After laying eyes on his daughter Cassandra and 4AD ) complete confidence of the young Caesar... 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