Political Science 1020E : Classics - Rome 4.docx
9 Dec 2014
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Named the julio claudians because they come from octavian"s bloodline, or his second wife"s bloodline, who had children with tiberius whose last name was claudius (because octavian only had a daughter with her) He was not augustus" first choice to be the heir, but all of his other choices had passed away. He was forced to marry julia, and he ran away form rome once he found out that she was cheating on him. Augustus was forced to exile her when he found this out, and so tiberius returned and was named augustus" heir in his will. In octavian"s will, he tells tiberius to kill his own step nephew, agrippa postumus, who. Was not a very social person; awkward and lacked grace, he never really wanted to be emperor. At his first ceremony, people tried to assign to him the titles his step father had (emperor,
