3/10/10 Roman leaders Notes

• Augustus used a Principate to rule
• The Prima Porta Augustus is a famous sculpture of him
• Augustus is the son of Julius Caeser
• Augustus is saying that he is of divine Lineage
• The Romans held standards which were like their flags when they went into battle
• He lost two of his legions to tribsmen in the north
• This was political propagande
• Lithia had a son named Tiberius
• Tiberius had a perch that he liked to sit on and throw slaves off of
• Caligula is a nutcase. He liked to bring people in to be murdered
• He tried to make his horse a Roman politician
• He had a close relationship with his sister
• He gets assasinated and bring on Claudius
• Nero was a very obese and sick man
• Nero burned down Rome because he wanted to build a park
• Nero is forced to commit suicide. As he is doing this he says the world is losing a great artist
• Vespasian comes to power after Nero. He is the complete opposite of the Julius family
• He is very strict and doesn't like nonsense
• The Christians got in trouble because they refused to pay the taxes
• His son Titus takes over after his death
• Titus built the Flavian Amphitheatre which is the colleseum
• He is also famous for the arch of Titus
• Titus burns the temple that the Jews practiced in
• The Wailing Wall is the remains of the Jewish temple
• It has been rebuilt as a Mosk over the temple
• This is why there is so much tension between the Arabs and Jews because they both claim that the ground is theirs
• Titus is followed by Domitian. He put up Roman baths
• These were the health clubs of the day
• All Roman cities had bath houses
• He wound up getting himself assassinated
• KNOW THE NAMES AND DATES THAT THESE GUYS SERVED
• Nerva 96-98, trajan 98-117, hadrian 117-138, antonius pius, and marcus aurelius
• Nerva changes the way emperors are chosen
• The emperor would now choose who is going to be the next emperor
• He chooses trajan . Trajan went ot war against the dasians
• Trajan's column was the monument to that war
• He then chooses Hadrian which is the emperor who was bit of a renassance man
• He was a poet, a philosopher, a traveler, and an art lover
• He is the first one to have facial hair
• Hadrian wanted to be seen as a Greek philosopher