#Julio-Claudian dynasty

[cesareeborgia]

↳ agrippina the elder (requested by anonymous)

[uncleclaudius]

Onyx cameo of Empress Livia Drusilla. She is portrayed as a mature woman covered by a veil, giving her the air of a proper Roman matron.

[wolframpant]

Historical Male Characters in Domina (2021)

[venicepearl]

Julia Drusilla (16 September AD 16 – 10 June AD 38) was a member of the Roman imperial family, the second daughter and fifth child of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder to survive infancy. She was the favorite sister of Emperor Caligula, who, after her death, had her deified under the name Diva Drusilla Panthea, and named his daughter Julia Drusilla after her.

[didoofcarthage]

Cameo portrait of Emperor Claudius, in modern mount, perhaps cut after his triumph over Britain in A.D. 44

Roman, Imperial Period, A.D. 43-45

sardonyx with glass backing

Royal Collection Trust (acquired by King Charles I when Prince of Wales)

[germanicusgirl]

i voted for caligula’s horse

[thatshowthingstarted]

“A Roman Marble Bust, Head of A Youth”,

Julio-Claudian dynasty 27 BC – 68 AD.

Carved marble on a wooden base,

Once in the collection of Gore Vidal

[thepastisalreadywritten]

TODAY IN HISTORY

15 December 37 AD

Nero was born, and later became the last Roman Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

He ascended to the throne in 54 AD at age 16, following Emperor Claudius' death. Nero's rule started moderately but became increasingly autocratic.

He is infamous for the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD and his persecution of Christians.

Nero's reign was characterized by his artistic and cultural pursuits alongside political unrest and rebellion.

Confronted with revolt, he committed suicide in 68 AD, bringing an end to the Julio-Claudian line.

15 December 1890

Sitting Bull was killed in South Dakota during an attempted arrest by Native American policemen, sent by the U.S. government.

This action was part of efforts to suppress the growing Ghost Dance movement, which Sitting Bull was believed to support.

The attempt to detain him at his cabin on the Standing Rock Reservation escalated into violence, resulting in Sitting Bull being shot in the head.

His death increased tensions among the Lakota, leading to the tragic Wounded Knee Massacre.

15 December 1966

Walt Disney passed away from lung cancer at the age of 65.

As the founder and visionary behind The Walt Disney Company, he created the iconic Mickey Mouse and produced the first full-length animated feature "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

Disney also opened Disneyland in 1955 and was developing Disney World at the time of his death.

He is remembered not just for his iconic characters and films, but also for his imagination, creativity, and the joy he brought to millions worldwide.

15 December 2001

The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopened after an 11-year, $27 million stabilization project.

The tower has been known for its distinctive lean since the 12th century, but its tilt reached a critical angle by the 1990s.

The project involved removing soil from beneath the higher side and using counterweights to reduce the lean safely.

The aim was to decrease the tilt to a safer angle, not to straighten the tower completely.

This effort successfully reduced the lean by about 45 centimeters and significantly improved the stability.

[fierce-little-miana]

Actually it was really sexy of Mark Antony to marry and have children with Cleopatra VII and Octavia.

Yes King, link two of the most fucked-up family trees I have ever seen together. Make Caligula and Cleopatra’s grandson (Ptolemy of Mauretania) first cousins once removed.

[luckys-last-brain-cell]

Just curious

[lightdancer1]

Wrapped up the biography of Nero:

Between this and the biography of Domitian I've just started and the biography of Caligula, the great tyrants of the Empire were all in the specific set of Emperors with biographies. Each of them embodied different facets of autocracy in their own ways, and each of them ultimately came to a bad end precisely because of it. Bootsie was murdered, as was Domitian. Nero committed suicide when the war that became the Year of the Four Emperors broke out. One of the realities behind their careers was both the abstract and the practical limits of autocracy, both the glories and the dangers.

The autocrats wanted a world where power was reliant purely on their whim sanctioned by force. So it proved to be, and so each of them was murdered or forced to self-destruction. One point that further applied here was that the autocrats' very successes meant they were libeled after their deaths by the Senators that wrote the histories, because as it turns out people subject to the terror of what people with absolute power are prone to do with it resent the everloving shit out of it and if the victims rather than the beneficiaries write the histories that doesn't bode well for the people who exercised that power.

So it's proven with Nero, who was every bit the natural-born despot, who ruled as one, who gleefully ordered murders and executions on a grand scale, and thus wound up alienating all the elites he had to rely on to rule and then the Legions started to do the 'I should be Augustus instead of the Augustus' and so fell the Julio-Claudians and ultimately rose the Flavians.

Interestingly there is one parallel with classical Rome and Chinese historiography. The last Emperor of a dynasty is almost always the 'Bad Last Emperor' and the most reliable target for demonization by the new one.

9/10.

[cesareeborgia]

↳ family trees + Julio-Claudian dynasty (limited to the main figures)

requested by anonymous

[uncleclaudius]

The portrait identified as Antonia Minor, the younger daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia, mother of the emperor Claudius

[wolframpant]

Domina and the children of the next Julio-Claudian generation

[fulviagrippina]

Agrippina after Nero tried to assassinate her by sinking her ship

[domitiaa]

"Goodbye, Livia, never forget our wedding."

I, Claudius (1976) - Brian Blessed/Siân Phillips

Imperium: Augustus (2001) - Benjamin Sadler/Martina Stella

Rome (2005 - 2007) - Simon Wood/Alice Henley

Domina (2021 - 2023) - Matthew McNulty/Kasia Smutniak