Suetonius

On the nineteenth of August, 14 CE, the founder of the Roman principate Octavian Augustus, died of natural causes after holding the position of princeps for forty-one years. Despite significant effort in the decade preceding his death to secure a smooth dynastic succession by the sharing of offices and titles with his adopted son Tiberius, a distinguished military general in his own right, substantial unrest followed Augustus’ passing. It quickly became necessary for more popular family…

Euthanasia is the act of killing a sick or injured person to end their suffering as stated by Merriam Webster Dictionary. The government is against euthanasia because they state that it is inhumane and that only God can take life away, but the reality of the case is that it is a right that the people have and not everybody has the same belief. With the legalization of euthanasia people can end their suffering and the economy can progress in the way that the government doesn’t have to pay for…

front or through letters to achieve various victories such as Gaul, Spain and the Roman Civil War, he exercised them before they would be conceived for almost another two-thousand years. Using numerous sources and writings from the Roman historian, Suetonius, we can conclude that he had all of what was mentioned, leading from the front and afar. It is shown that Julius Caesar has used some of the principles of mission command unknowingly, most notably, building cohesive teams, creating shared…

Roman society was built on the back of slaves. Slaves were an essential asset to all Roman Imperials. Roman slavery defined Imperial society, and without it, life would have fallen apart. This essay will be focusing primarily on Italy, as this was the centre of Imperial Roman society, in addition to the fact that we have the best estimate of the numbers of slaves in this area. This essay will be structured and analyzed as follows. First will be the number of slaves who were in the Roman Empire.…

Missouri, Mark Twain family originated from Kentucky (Bloom 6). Ancestry interested Samuel Clemens as it did his mother, though the history of the family lines on both sides is sketchy. On the Clemens side, the name appears in an ancient book by the Suetonius. The authors mother, Jane Lampton, took pride in what she believed to be her family ancestry. Her father’s side traced their origins to the Lamptons who lived in Durham, England (Kirk 1-2). He always spoke more frequently and highly of his…

perspectives. His detail in the notes allows anyone that reads Augustus First Emperor of Rome the ability to do further research if they wish. He uses many different ones with different views, such as Augustus’ autobiography, Cicero, Virgil and Suetonius, which helps support his thesis of a complicated…

they were constantly at war, Gladiators had to be strong to stay alive and normal citizens had to be strong to perform their jobs. Strength was so important that the emperors were typically weight trained and led by example. The Roman historian Suetonius stated that Emperor Tiberius (14 AD to 37 AD) could punch a hole through an apple and inflict a wound on a human with a simple flick of his finger. Thus, training with resistance was a staple among all Romans for preparing for war, work, and…

when an inventor designed a machine that could haul huge columns at a minimum expense. Vespasian offered the inventor money to destroy the machine, because “I must always ensure that the working classes earn enough money to buy themselves food” (Suetonius). The fact that Roman historians did not record details of the machine is one indication that such inventions were unwelcome. For all of the physical remains of Roman construction and engineering, we have surprisingly little of the actual works…