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4 days ago · Galba, a 70-year-old general with a reputation for strictness and discipline, entered Rome as the new emperor in October 68 AD. However, his reign was marked by a series of unpopular decisions, including the execution of former allies and the refusal to pay the Praetorian Guard the promised donative (Plutarch, "Lives", Galba, 16).
4 days ago · Galba Servius Galba Caesar Augustus: 8 June 68 – 15 January 69 (7 months and 7 days) Governor of Hispania Tarraconensis, revolted against Nero and seized power after his suicide, with support of the Senate and Praetorian Guard: 24 December 3 BC – 15 January 69 (aged 71)
May 21, 2024 · From Nero’s revolving dining room to Augustus’s rigged lottery. by Guy de la Bédoyère May 21, 2024. Roman emperors threw opulent feasts and parties to demonstrate their wealth and power ...
6 days ago · When the Roman senator Vindex rebelled, with support from the eventual Roman emperor Galba, Nero was declared a public enemy and condemned to death in absentia. He fled Rome, and on 9 June AD 68 committed suicide. His death sparked a brief period of civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
May 6, 2024 · Boccalini develops these ideas in both Ragguagli and Comentarii with detailed and repeated reference to one episode in Tacitus’ works, the speech of the emperor Galba in book 1 of the Histories. Galba’s reign was short-lived: declared emperor by his troops in Spain in June of AD 68, he lost the support of the Praetorian Guard in Rome and ...
3 days ago · v. t. e. Domitian ( / dəˈmɪʃən, - iən /, də-MISH-ən, -ee-ən; Latin: Domitianus; 24 October 51 – 18 September 96) was Roman emperor from 81 to 96. The son of Vespasian and the younger brother of Titus, his two predecessors on the throne, he was the last member of the Flavian dynasty.
May 1, 2024 · After Nero’s death Rome’s new emperor, Galba, began rounding up Nero’s closest associates. Alongside Nero’s other favorites, people described as “the scum that had come to the surface in Nero’s day,” Locusta was dragged through the city in chains and publicly executed.
