#julio claudian

[elkanach]

agrippina the younger

i cant draw claudius for the life of me LMAOOO he looks like that one julius ceasar painting

[psychidion]

mayhaps I have flown too close to the sun and developed a hyperfixation on the Julio-Claudian empire

[panicinthestudio]

Terracotta plaque, 27 BCE–68 CE

Augustan or Julio-Claudian, Roman

Terracotta

17 3/4 × 19 7/16 × 1 3/4 in., 14 lb. (45.1 × 49.4 × 4.4 cm, 6.4 kg)

Relief with a satyr and a maenad

Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A maenad and a satyr, roman art

[uncleclaudius]

Nicely preserved Roman coin featuring a portrait of Agrippina the Elder, the mother of Emperor Caligula. Agrippina died in exile during the reign of Tiberius. Her son retrieved her remains and had her reinterred in the Mausoleum of Augustus in a show of familial piety. The coin was minted during his reign.

[cesareeborgia]

↳ agrippina the elder (requested by anonymous)

[domitiaa]

AUGUSTUS AND LIVIA

"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 

[blueiscoool]

Roman Glass Bowl 1st half of 1st century CE Early Imperial, Julio-Claudian

[behindfairytales]

DOMINA (s2) + historical references

[lionofchaeronea]

A pastoral landscape. Wall painting in the Third Pompeian Style from the Villa of Agrippa Postumus at Boscotrecase, artist unknown; between 10 and 20 CE. Now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.

[elkanach]

i am sorry iwouldhave drawn nero instead of agrippina BUT I CANT🙁🙁 he too hard to draw and for what. take the other four tho..

top left octavian, tiberius, germanicus, claudius and agrippina minor if u couldnt tell

[duxfemina]

A brief summary of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty

Octavian/Augustus - he has a reputation associated with peace but you will get a little ill once you look at all the collateral damage around him and that reputation ie. It's easy to institute a regime of peace when you've murdered everyone who might oppose you

Tiberius - when a chronic people pleaser finally get into a position of power and still no one thinks they're good enough and they finally reach burnout and fuck off to their vacation home indefinitely

Caligula - the first emperor in the long litany of reasons why people whose brain has not fully developed should NOT be given access to unlimited power. Little Boots is either insane or the absolute champion at taking the piss out of the elite and there isn't really a third option

Claudius - an icon for overcoming disability and bullying and knowing how to delegate administration appropriately. Also this man gave his wives a lot of mobility (for the time) so we stan in spite of the sources trying to smear him for that very thing. Also this man was SUCH a nerd and I wish they hadn't destroyed his history of the Civil Wars but that's the Augustan propaganda machine for ya even near kin isn't safe from censorship

Nero - take one traumatic childhood add a flare for the dramatic and then give them unlimited power before their brain is fully developed and now it's like Caligula but with more pizzazz. Nero is literally what happens when that obnoxious rich kid who's into theater gets absolutely unlimited money and power and nothing to curtail his flare for a spectacle.

[liviasdrusillas]

'"'but a wife can be a fine thing, even for a soldier,' drusus said. he and antonia were reclining close together, and his hand lay on her shoulder. 'then you will be happy to be home for a while?' she said, smiling up at him. ‘ 'it's as if i am two beings— one who always longs to be home with you and another who wants to march into germania.'" - daughters of the palatine hill, phyllis t smith

[uncleclaudius]

Monumental marble statue of Livia Drusilla, dated to the reign of her son Emperor Tiberius.

[cesareeborgia]

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

requested by anonymous

[domitiaa]

Art by psycheswrath

[seianusfanboy]

ANCIENT ROME FAMILY TREES !!

(that I've written down so far)

- THE JULIOCLAUDIANS (until Claudius, sorry Nero! - starting from Brutus' ancestors)

- MARCELLUS AND HIS FAMILY (down to Messalina!)

- THE FAMILY OF AELIUS SEJANUS (the only one whose family isn't a circle)