CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Damnatio Memoriae, Arabia Petraea, Flavian Dynasty
13 May 2016
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70 ce: 1st year of vespasian"s reign and new flavian dynasty. 69-79: vespasian: able in military and civil affairs. Balanced attention to senate and people: colosseum: doesn"t represent nero, but the god sol (the sun, ripped down nero"s palace and replaced it with a public place. Under the empire: from popular vote to princeps as patron of the people: looked to the emperor to be their benefactor. Legal institutionalization of office of imperator: lex de imperio vespasiani. 81-96: able but autocratic rule of domitian. The five good emperors : also known as the adoptive emperors. Pliny addressing trajan as dominus, but still a civil monarch. 117: succession of hadrian: a man of the new pan-imperial roman state. A philellene: a lover of greece and greek culture. 132-135: 3rd jewish revolt (bar kochba war) 138: adoption of antoninus pius, and his adoption of lucius verus and. 138-161: the long, uneventful reign of antoninus pius.
