Julio-Claudian

• “As far as expansion under the Empire goes, Njorl is right that most of the expansion under the Julio-Claudian Emperors was basically just the annexation of client kingdoms when their dynasties died out – e.g. Egypt, Galatia, Cappadocia, Mauretania.”

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• “In 31 Antonia received word that a conspiracy against Tiberius was being masterminded by Sejanus, ambitious to interrupt the Julio-Claudian succession and seize power for himself.”

  Simon & Schuster: Caesars’ Wives

• “The future of the Julio-Claudian dynasty now rested in the hands of these four.”

  Simon & Schuster: Caesars’ Wives

• “Perhaps in keeping their wives and daughters out of the limelight Trajan, Hadrian, and the other good emperors of the second century succeeded where their Julio-Claudian, and to some extent their Flavian, predecessors failed.”

  Simon & Schuster: Caesars’ Wives

• “Now around twenty-five, she had already received a thorough grounding in the cutthroat world of Julio-Claudian politics that had resulted in the death or exile of so many of her relatives, including most of her immediate family.”

  Simon & Schuster: Caesars’ Wives

• “How do we choose, for example, between the contrasting versions of Livia: the uncomplimentary descriptions of her as an unruly bully by the great Roman historian and fierce Julio-Claudian critic Tacitus; the sly flattery of her as a chaste matron with the beauty of Venus by the poet Ovid; and the appreciation of her stoic fortitude in the face of bereavement by the philosopher Seneca?”

  Simon & Schuster: Caesars’ Wives

• “Such arrangements made great PR for the Julio-Claudian regime, reinforcing their territorial authority as well as earning Livia and Antonia veneration as the maternal figureheads of the empire.”

  Simon & Schuster: Caesars’ Wives

• “Suddenly the unthinkable was possible for the modestly born Vespasian, a man with no ties whatsoever to Livia or any branch of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.”

  Simon & Schuster: Caesars’ Wives

• “When the remains of this complex, known as a Sebasteion after the Greek word Sebastos, meaning “Augustus” were found, only around half of the original sculptural relief panels survived, but several images of a stellar line-up of the key Julio-Claudian players remained.”

  Simon & Schuster: Caesars’ Wives

• “By deifying them he was ensuring that the Spaniards of the Trajanic-Hadrianic dynasty would be well represented in the corridors of heaven, an exercise in one-upmanship over the Julio-Claudian and Flavian clans.30”

  Simon & Schuster: Caesars’ Wives

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