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15 Cards in this Set
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Augustus
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(63 BC- 14 AD), first emperor, created principate
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Julian Laws on Marriage
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(19 and 18 BC)- attempt by Augustus to elevate morals of upper class, punished adultery, bribery
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Vergil
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(70 -19 BC), Roman poet, wrote Aeneid which proclaimed imperial mission of Rome
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M. Marcellus
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(42-23 BC), favored potential heir of Augustus, probably killed by Livia
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Horace
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(65- 8 BC), great lyric poet
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Ovid
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(43 BC- 17 AD) Roman poet, had great influence on medieval literature
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Tiberius
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(emperor)- (42 BC- 37 AD), reclusive successor to Augustus, controlled by Livia and made Sejanus his regent
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Drusus (Nero Claudius Drusus)
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(38 BC- 9 BC), great general in Germany, adoptive son of Augustus, died by accident, father of Germanicus
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Arminius
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(17 BC- 21 AD), German chieftain, stopped Romans from taking land across the Rhine
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G and L Caesar
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died in 2 and 4 AD, Augustus’s grandsons and adoptive heirs, their deaths made Tiberius his heir
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Germanicus
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(16 BC-19 AD), popular general, probably killed by Tiberius which made T very unpopular
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Sejanus
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(20 BC-31 AD), essentially Tiberius’s regent, killed lots of people, conspired against T and was killed
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Agrippina the Elder
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(14 BC-18 AD), Germanicus’s wife, very ambitious, probably killed by Tiberius
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Caligula
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(37-41), tyrannical emperor, first truly bad one of the principate
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Claudius
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- ( 41- 54 AD), last Julio-Claudian, demonstrated the dangers of an isolated emperor
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