...This chapter pairs Galba and Otho with the so-called specter of Nero, which represents public disorientation at the imbalance within a familiar ideological structure. Neither of these first two pretenders can overcome its influence. Annals ambiguity in Arcanum imperii False Nero phenomenon...

...0 01 12 2005 This content is only available as a PDF. Galba succession grafting everybody recognized Since Galba was old and childless, everybody recognized that if he was given time to pick a successor, he would have to adopt the man of his choice. Even when Romans appeared to abandon...

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... with dynastic predecessors rather than the rhetoric of decline and renewal. Following the death of Nero, Galba and the three new emperors who seized power from him justified their actions by talking about the terrible reigns of their murdered predecessors as times of Roman decline that they will correct...

...After concluding remarks, this epilogue turns to the problematic question of the play’s date. Recent work reads the play as a celebration of Galba’s victory over Nero and of the new emperor’s return to Rome; such arguments are based largely on the play’s anti-Neronian rhetoric as well...

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...Palatine. Peter Stothard, Oxford University Press (2023). © Peter Stothard 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197555286.003.0045 Otho understood Galba’s mistakes. The senate was successfully flattered. Otho was happy to appear as an old Palatine servant when he was, in fact, the new master...

... execution in 91, under Domitian, are no obstacle to identifying Tacitus’ Maternus with Dio’s. The chapter further argues that Maternus wrote a Nero, a praetexta recited to great effect soon after Nero’s fall, during the reign of Galba. Persius Flaccus Aulus Roman poet...

...This chapter explores Plutarch’s Lives of Galba and Otho, as well as his Lives of Aratus and Artaxerxes. Those of Galba and Otho are closely knit together and, together with a lost Life of Vitellius, were probably part of one book, or at least a continuous series. By contrast, and like some other...

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...Plutarch’s early series of imperial biographies, the Lives of the Caesars, was a major work, although only Galba and Otho are preserved. It may have been over 75,000 words, c. 375 Teubner pages, and thus longer than any of his...

... him in a white crystal coffin in the tomb of his fathers. The most likely new emperor, an aged general called Galba, seemed certain to repudiate Nero, his friends and his works. Aulus Vitellius slipped into obscurity as best he could. Acte Claudia Ecloge Claudia Fundana Galeria Aulus Vitellius’s...

.... It was a good time to be leaving and the new emperor, Galba, solely for his own interests, gave him his chance. One of Aulus’s distant and wealthier relatives, notorious for his indecisiveness, had already received the governorship of Pannonia where Tiberius had made his military reputation. That was no part...