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Sources: Death of AugustusReference Date of Content Purpose Theme
Event
Tacitus Augustus’s Marcellus; Agrippa; To tell what Succession,
‘Annals’ 1.3- general Tiberius & Drusus; happens; to family,
4, 1.53 reign; Gaius & Lucius → criticise the Senate
Julia’s death treatment, deaths; emperorship. relationship
– AD14 Restoration of the
Republic; slight unrest;
issues with successors;
issues with family;
Julia’s death.
Suetonius General – Training of family; Tell what Succession,
‘Life of Augustus’s deaths of heirs; happens; to advisors.
Augustus’ reign colleagues (Agrippa, entertain.
63-66 Maecenas).
Velleius Augustus’s A plot; Marcellus & To inform; to Succession,
Paterculus later reign Agrippa; Tiberius; Julia. praise the family.
2.93-96 2.99- emperorship.
100
Seneca ‘On 2BC Maecenas & Agrippa – To suggest Advisors,
Benefits’ 6.32 (dramatic advisors; Julia. good strategy family.
date) for an
emperor.
Younger Rule of Criticism of Maecenas. To criticise. Advisors.
Seneca Augustus
‘Moral
Epistles’ 5
Younger After Reasons Marcellus was To praise Succession.
Seneca ‘To Marcellus’s a good choice for Augustus
Marcia – on death successor. through
Consolation’ Marcellus.
Virgil During Praising Marcellus To Succession,
‘Aeneid’ Augustus’s (Augustus’s potential (sycophantic family.
6.860-885 reign successor) – linking him ally) praise
to Rome and its history. Augustus and
Rome –
Augustus was
Virgil’s
patron.
Augustus Gaius & Gaius & Lucius’s To recount Succession,
‘Res Gestae’ Lucius’s introductions to the his life in a family.
14 deaths and Senate; their deaths. positive way.
lives
Suetonius Augustus’s Criticism of Tiberius, To inform; to Succession.
‘Life of later reign reasoning behind entertain.
Tiberius’ Augustus’s decision.
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