#julio-claudians

[wolframpant]

Domina and the children of the next Julio-Claudian generation

[faithyposting]

the emperor Claudius:

[dysfunctional-nerd-tm]

30 Days of Productivity -May

Due to my very hectic and (academically) unproductive March and April, I’ve decided to restart another 30 days of productivity in hopes to catch up on all of my uni work.

Day 1-3

[image: row of portraits of all emperors of the Julio-Claudia’s dynasty including their name and reigning years. Augustus on the far left, ending with Nero on the far right]

May 1st

worked for 5 hours 

returned home and wrote 1600 words for my research essay

May 2nd

worked for 8 hours (for a night owl, a 7am start for a job with a 1 hour commute)

returned home and finished the 2000 word research essay, complete with references and bibliography (unfortunately yes, I did procrastinate for an hour in between)

finally slept!! (I was running on 3 hours of sleep per day for the past 3 days :(

[image: freshly baked croissants from work]

May 3rd (rest day)

watched one of my biological anthropology lecture x1

attended my Biological anthropology lab

attended a peer mentoring session (where I try and tutor first year chemists and help with their lab reports)

meal prepped for the next three meals

finished House MD S4

[uncleclaudius]

Portrait of Antonia Minor carved out of white chalcedony. 1st century AD.

[blueiskewl]

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

[cesareeborgia]

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

requested by anonymous

[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DOMINA (s2) + historical references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.

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Corrupting the youth with ancient Roman trading cards: Julio-Claudian edition!

Artist attributions and historical notes under the cut.

Murder of Caesar by Karl Theodor von Piloty

Virgil Reading the Aeneid by Jean-Baptiste Wicar

Tiberius exiles by Félix Joseph Barrias

Caligula by Antonio Tempesta

Claudius proclaimed emperor by Charles Lebayle

Talma as Nero in Britannicus by Eugène Delacroix

Other graphics come from frescoes at Pompeii and Herculaneum. Dictators get red backgrounds and emperors get purple.

Historical notes:

Some facts come from ancient sources, which may be biased or wrong. But I've chosen to use them here since these cards are just for fun. For a fuller, more accurate view of these guys, check out my recommended books!

Source for nine times Augustus nearly died on a boat: I counted them!

Sexual orientation wasn't a concept in ancient Rome, but Claudius is the only Julio-Claudian emperor explicitly described as not attracted to men; all others have at least one story of involvement with a man. See Roman Homosexuality by Craig Williams for details.

[girlcatilina]

opening my roman history book sighing: whose turn is it to perpetuate the cycle of violence today?

[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.

[wolframpant]

Historical Female Characters in Domina (2021)

[brother-emperors]

he asks you to stay and in that moment you realize that you are in a very real danger of no longer being your own person, that right now is the before and after of whatever you will become.

@therepublicofletters said: Francesco had to kill lorenzo because he knew he couldn’t resist the MAGNETIC POWER that drew literally every other person in Florence. He entirely had to run away to Rome. Guglielmo meanwhile …….

thinking about this THINKING ABOUT THIS

[uncleclaudius]

These bronze decorations are part of what remains from the Nemi ships, pleasure barges of Emperor Caligula. The sunken ships were recovered in 1929 but were destroyed in 1944 during WWII.

[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.

[brutusjustifier]

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)