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The Banishment of Julia Augusti (PART 3)

Written by Mary Naples, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Yet, as it turns out, Livia would not be unhappy for long. Poor Marcellus would not live to see his twenty-first birthday. After just two years of marriage, an epidemic swept through the Roman Empire that would infect Augustus almost to death. After he improved, it went

Written on August 11, 2020 at 6:32 am, by Mary Naples

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Tags: Agrippa, Augustus, Julia Augusti, Julia the Elder, Julio-Claudian, Livia, Octavian, Roman empire, Tiberius

The Banishment of Julia Augusti (PART 2)

Written by Mary Naples, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Because the mere hint of sovereignty had dispatched his dear Uncle Julius into the hereafter, he never called himself emperor, preferring to use the term Princeps, or first citizen, instead. Regardless of his title, a de facto monarchy is what his regime—the principate—would become. But like all

Written on August 4, 2020 at 6:50 am, by Mary Naples

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Tags: Augustus, Julia Augusti, Julia the Elder, Julio-Claudian, Livia, Octavian, Roman empire, Tiberius

The Banishment of Julia Augusti (PART 1)

Written by Mary Naples, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom “I would certainly not describe as mercy, what was actually the exhaustion of cruelty.” ~ Seneca, On Mercy (referring to the deified Augustus) “Let her be banished for life,” Augustus is recorded as saying about the harsh exile of his only biological child, Julia, to the barren and windswept

Written on July 28, 2020 at 6:46 am, by Mary Naples

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Tags: Augustus, Julia Augusti, Julia the Elder, Julio-Claudian, Livia, Octavian, Roman empire, Tiberius

Date and Time in Ancient Rome

Written by Visnja Bojovic, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Time. It’s an abstract concept, but it frames our life possibly more than anything else. We cannot touch time, we cannot feel it or see it, but we know for sure that, as the years pass, we will have (more) grey hair and a lot more stories

Written on July 1, 2020 at 6:12 am, by Visnja Bojovic

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Tags: Ancient Roman calendar, Augustus, calendars, Julius Caesar, Roman calendar, Time

Cicero: Rome’s Greatest Defender

Written by Edward Whelan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom There are many great Romans whose names are still honored to this day. None has been more feted down the centuries than Cicero. He was perhaps Rome’s greatest author and one of its greatest orators and philosophers. Cicero was also one the last defenders of the Roman

Written on May 27, 2020 at 8:00 am, by Whelan

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Tags: Academic Scepticism, Augustus, Cataline, Cicero, First Triumvirate, Julius Caesar, Marc Antony, Roman empire, Roman Republic, Scepticisim, Statesman

Tiberius: Great Emperor or Monster?

Written by Edward Whelan, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Tiberius( 42 BC –37 AD) was the second Roman Emperor and one of its greatest. He was also a brilliant general. Yet, he is remembered today as a gloomy tyrant who was vey cruel. Tiberius was a very complex man and to this day he is something

Written on February 28, 2020 at 10:25 am, by Whelan

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Tags: Augustus, Caligula, Emperor, Germanicus, Livia, Octavian, Roman empire, Second Emperor, Sejanus, Tiberius