HIST 2932 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Antoninus Pius, Flavian Dynasty, Roman Currency
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Insulae = roman apartment buildings; the were made up. Lecture 7: the julio-claudians/golden age [textbook = ch. The julio-claudian dynasty (27 bc - 68 ad): The imperial palace of rome was located at palatine. Sesterces, roman currency, were first minted under antonius pius in 159 ad. These coins depicted seated statues of augustus and livia holding scepters. Suetonius (70-122 d) = the biographer of emperors: Was a member of the equestrian order, and was a high-ranking official of the imperial administration under trajan and hadrian is the author of the life of the twelve caesars (119-122 ad), which are subjective biographies from. These biographies have a pro-senatorial point of view. They are favourable to trajan and hadrian, but unfavourable to the previous emperors (the. The colosseum/amphitheatre in rome was inaugurated in 80 ad by titus. Ostia, the port of rome, was undergoing phase 2. Hadrian had a wall built separating england and scotland from each other.
