HIST 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: 4Bc, Gladiator, Quirinius
15 Sep 2016
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After eating a bowl of figs, according to tacitus, given to him by his wife. Augustus died - it was suspected that they were poisoned so she could bring her own son to the thrown (from another husband) Augustus had been great - tiberius, coming to the thrown after, was wretched. After ruling for nearly 12 years, he suddenly abdicated and moved to an island and made himself villa jovis leaving his empire in the hands of two other men. Threw massive complex and well-planned out orgies for hundreds of depravities (ex. Putting a baby to his organ to make it think it was a breast ) Caligula smothered tiberius to death, tried the first time but only rendered him unconscious so he went back to finish the job. Although the people were so sick of tiberius that rome was ecstatic when. Caligula came to the thrown, tiberius secretly new how much of a sadist and lunatic caligula really was.
