TSES 2305 Lecture 5: TSES LECTURE 5

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Technology, Society, Environment Studies
• Course: TSES 2305
• Professor: Gordon Deinstadt

Document Summary

Real name was gaius seiundus plinius: seiundus means second boy. Why is pliny the elder important to us: he liked to interview people and learn from them. Asymmetrical war means war of ambush: unpleasant dangerous war but he was very courageous and didn"t care. Had an army buddy whose name is titus and he was from the flavian family. Or maybe the following year because titus" daddy whose name was vespasian became emperor that year. Vespasian was totally different then the previous emperor. He was from an equestrian family that had recently risen to senatorial contrast to earlier julio-claudians who were aristocrats; nobles (high aristocrats who claimed to be descents of the goddess venus) Vespasian"s brother was killed in the civil war: which meant vespasian had no connections in. Rome: we can"t explain why pliny the elder received this huge promotion to a very high rank.