CLAS 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Damnatio Memoriae, Roman Economy, Incest
13 Feb 2018
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Killed by someone trying to (cid:318)save(cid:319) rome. May be rst to su er damnatio memoriae. Process by which unpopular emperors had their memory erased. De"acement o" coins w his "ace on it, public monuments. Can be done by senate or by the people themselves. Reason why he was popular/"avored at rst. Born (cid:400)(cid:401) ce to germanicus and agrippina the elder. 7 years old when his "ather dies; travels to rome with mother and brothers. Lived in military camps un(cid:2210)l "ather died. (cid:400)8 years old when mother and brothers killed under sejanus. Spend years (cid:400)8-(cid:401)(cid:403) with tiberius on capri. Accedes to rule in (cid:402)7 a(cid:91)er tiberius(cid:317) death (cid:336)possibly murder(cid:337) Age (cid:401)(cid:403); doesn(cid:317)t live to see (cid:402)(cid:399) Shows how much o" a loose cannon he was. Said he wanted caligula and his own descendant tiberius gemellus to become. Caligula got the pre"ect to engineer it so that only he could be emperor.
