CLASSICS 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Severan Dynasty, Gallienus, Roman Citizenship
28 Apr 2017
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Hadrian embraced greek culture and philosophy and beards became a thing. Antoninus pius : his loyalty to his father was an act of piety. M. aurelius was a emperor and philosopher. Rome: let it go, the arena was his fav game to play and watch. Commodus"s freedman who basically ran the show. Believed there would be a plot (and wow there was) Condemned commodus memory - no official documents shall contain his name. Again, bc commodus was murdered on the last day of 192. Leading senator, capable, etc. he was doing a good job but the expenses needed to be fixed after commodus (i. e. increase the taxes) The praetorian guards had it better if the senators hated the emperor so they killed pertinax bc he was just too good and nice. Donated a lot of money to get his position.
