Praetorian Guard

There was no real way for a new emperor to be chosen. Because of this, most people who wanted to become emperor often bribed the Praetorian Guard and sometimes even assassinated the current emperor. In fact, over the course of 50 years, 13 emperors had died because they were murdered. Plus, Rome was gigantic so it was very difficult to govern. If Rome’s sheer size made it difficult to…

all unfit for the job of being the ruler of Rome. The only way you could be the emperor is if you inherited it from your father. If anybody in Rome that were rich wanted there sons to be emperor or if they did not like the ruler they paid the Praetorian guards to assassinate the empress. There were many economic reasons for the downfall of the Roman Empire.…

Although it did not change the way I currently view policing in our society, I have learned that the way policing is carried out today is much different that the way it was carried out even a century ago. Rome for example, used a militarized Praetorian Guard hundred men to protect the emperor and the city (Dunstan, 2010; Nippel 1995). Later in Rome, Augustus added vigiles to be firefighters and night watchers that is seen later in night watches of early English and American police history…

much like the Latimer and Ridley, the woman with the match was burned for her beliefs as well. Secondly, Bradbury foreshadows with allusions. When Faber is trying to convince Montag out of planting books in firemen’s houses, “They’re Caesar’s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, ‘Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.’ “ (pg. 84). In this quote Bradbury is alluding to the ruler, Julius Caesar, who was killed by his close friend, Marcus Junius Brutus, for trying to…

How to define a good citizens? Augustus will be a good example to discuss. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus, formerly known as Gaius Octavian Thurinus, the founding monarch of the Roman Empire, ruled Rome for 40 years. He is one of the most important figures in world history. He is the nephew of Caesar 's grandchild, in 44 BC, he was designated as the first heir and adopted as son. He entered political arena after Caesar was stabbed. In 30 BC, he stop the civil war that possibly split the Roman…

Claudius who introduced others into the government that were foreigners, which was a big change, and undertook the conquest of seizing Britain to the empire. He skilfully avoided confrontation with the Roman senate, and purchased the loyalty of the Praetorian Guard with a massive 15,000-sesterce per man donative. His ailments appeared to improve after he took the throne, and he later claimed that he had only pretended to be dim-witted to protect himself.…

During the age of Antiquity, the Romans were without a doubt the most powerful empire in the known world. It was traditionally thought that the Roman empire dissolved in 476 BC after the last Roman emperor was deposed. However this was not the reason Rome fell, there were many different factors that would lead Rome off the proverbial cliff. These factors range from unstable economic decisions, government corruption, reliance on slave labour, to military campaigns and religious debacles, but the…

(Pg. 11) Julia Agrippina, also known as Agrippina the Younger was born in AD 15 to Germanicus and Vipsania Agrippina, also known as Agrippina the Elder. Julia Agrippina’s name was designed to emphasize her ties to Marcus Agrippa, her maternal grandfather and one of Augustus’ favorite soldiers, and Julia the Elder, his wife and Emperor Augustus’ only biological child. Much of Agrippina’s early life was spent on the northern border of Rome as Germanicus was on campaign there. Agrippina was born…

The Golden Age of Rome was a period of harmony and prosperity, this was the era where Rome became the most powerful city in the world. The Golden Age, also known as the ‘Pox Romania’ meaning Roman Peace, had an empire that functioned very satisfactorily. This was because there were four significant emperors in charge during this era. The emperors were Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius Pius, and Marcus Aurelius. Within Ancient Rome, there was no such title as “emperor”. Instead, they had various amount…

The Roman Empire was one of the largest empires of its time. Behind all this were the Roman emperors. A few change the empire in massive ways, that even affect our lives today. We are going to look at 4 of the empire 's most important emperors, Julius Caesar, Augustus (Or known as Octavian), Trajan, and finally Constantine. The main one that is one of the best emperors in Roman history is Augustus (Octavian), we see this through his government services that changed the world and even today…