Ad69: Emperors, Armies and Anarchy Fields Nic
Ad69: Emperors, Armies and Anarchy Fields Nic With the death of Nero by his own shaky hand, the ill-sorted, ill-starred Iulio-Claudian dynasty came to an ignominious end, and Rome was up for the…
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Ad69: Emperors, Armies and Anarchy Fields Nic
With the death of Nero by his own shaky hand, the ill-sorted, ill-starred Iulio-Claudian dynasty came to an ignominious end, and Rome was up for the taking. The following year, commonly known as the Year of the Four Emperors, was probably one of Rome's worst. This was 9 June, AD 68.
How could a new man occupy the vacant throne in Rome and establish a new dynasty? Nero's death threw up a critical question for the Empire. This situation had never arisen before, since in all previous successions the new emperor had some relation to his predecessor, but the psychotic and paranoid Nero had done away with any eligible relatives.
And how might a new emperor secure his legal position and authority with regards to the Senate and to the army, as well as to those who had a vested interest in the system, the Praetorian Guard? The result was that ambitious and unscrupulous generals of the empire
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia
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