Ancient History Predictions/Thoughts (5 Viewers)

[thelmalouise]

Ok then im failing this... i honestly dont know anythingggggg

same

 

[chlolowery11]

you wont fail, just try looking over the syllabus (download from online) and look at what sources fit each point

do u know for which emperor what sources you are going to use - so like for Tiberius is it like Tacitus and Seutonius and Barret and can I just kinda make quotes up at this point??

 

[chlolowery11]

same

My worst subject I cant bring myself to study for it cause ik im doomed

 

[Serenawilder]

My worst subject I cant bring myself to study for it cause ik im doomed

Unfortunately me too

 

[thelmalouise]

hsc has been such a flop

 

[radagastthebrown]

Maths today has just really knocked me out of it. I think I calculated a raw 59

But I've got no time to relax, gotta get straight into ancient.

 

[nitto]

here, lemme help with a summary:

do u know for which emperor what sources you are going to use - so like for Tiberius is it like Tacitus and Seutonius and Barret and can I just kinda make quotes up at this point

i dont actively map out specific historians, they kind of naturally lend themselves to the emperor. tacitus and suetonus are the most abundant sources for the JC emperors, so definitely use them.

tiberius:
- very frugal and did not spend much money, mostly tried to follow augustus' style of ruling through consolidating the empire to ensure it was stable.
- "men fit to be slaves" - tacitus
- "achieved less by force than diplomacy" - tacitus
- refused senatorial honours and exceptions, hence the lack of statues
- only statue of him is at the sebasteion complex
- concentrated praetorian guard to a single encampment outside rome, changed prefecture for only one prefect of the pg (sejanus"
- calls sejanus "partner of my labours" --> shows the political rise of the PG
- introduced the maiestas trials later in his reign and introduced delatores (informers) with financial incentives for informing on corrupt senators. this created a power imbalance known as 'the reign of terror' according to suetonius and tacitus, but this was largely exaggerated --> most of this was actually done by the senate.

gaius (caligula):
- "his madness roused murderous thoughts" - suetonius
- "planned to make his horse proconsul" - suetonius
- "doing away with the pretense that he was merely the chief executive of a republic"
- self deified coinage of himself while he was still alive ---> changing image and role
- coinage of him addressing the military
- divided the prefect number back to 2, and killed off his supporter macro to prevent pg from getting too much power
- three sisters coin of gaius' sisters (agrippina, drusilla and julia)
- killed after 4 years by PG, led by cassius chaeraea (praetorian tribune he humiliated)

claudius:
- "ruled by his wives and freedmen"
- sebasteion complex of him portrayed as young
- bronze head of him found in britannia demonstrating his successful expansion into the territory
- marriage to agrippina the younger: the gemma claudia was a sculpture dedicated to likening their marriage to germanicus and agrippina's mum
- "Claudius' line of thought followed Julius Caesar more closely than Augustus" - Scullard
- "acted not as a princeps but as a servant" - Suetonius
- senate distrusted him due to his appointing of freedmen (narcissus and pallas) into the imperial court, whilst the senate's position weakened
- "indeed he vigorously upheld augustus' hierarchal division of society, re-enslaving freedmen who posed as knights" -> his administration of the empire

nero:
- sebasteion of him being crowned by agrippina
- official imperial coinage
- suetonius: "was not interested in ruling the empire, but only in spending the money derived from it"
- quinquennium (5 good years) at the start of his reign was due to agrippina soft ruling through her appointed praetorian guard (burrus) and the freedmen senator (seneca).
- had his mother agrippina and her appointees killed, appointed tigellinus as prefect, decided to become an actor and spend recklessly, lost territory in londinium (britain)
- declared public enemy and executed after 14 years

 

[nitto]

hope that helps lol, i know its not fully comprehensive but i was doing this from off the top of my head and google docs, not from my notes

 

[chlolowery11]

thank you so much

hope that helps lol, i know its not fully comprehensive but i was doing this from off the top of my head and google docs, not from my notes

thank you so much!!

 

[nitto]

thank you so much

thank you so much!!

no worries, when in doubt over who said what just start guessing. they're not going to punish you for saying tacitus said x when suetonius actually said it.

 

[lildroptop]

Yes omg and I actually like studying their ways of life. Greek world is Boring because I sersisouly do not care what tactic they used in what war. Sparta is also interesting because their generally weird And Agrippina is meh.

agrippina is my favourite topic lol ik it back to front

 

[nitto]

agrippina is my favourite topic lol ik it back to front

i prefer sparta, but yeah agrippina is aight. easy stuff to remember tho, its mostly all broad titles and positions she held in relation to her husbands/sons + scathing critiques from tacitus that need modern historian interpretations

 

[lildroptop]

i prefer sparta, but yeah agrippina is aight. easy stuff to remember tho, its mostly all broad titles and positions she held in relation to her husbands/sons + scathing critiques from tacitus that need modern historian interpretations

yup personally i hate sparta though so boring

 

[mostgnarly]

yup personally i hate sparta though so boring

I don't find sparta too bad, they got up to some shenanigans. The gymnopadia literally means festival of naked boys. Athens asked them to help in a war and they said "nah mate we're praying rn come back later"

 

[nitto]

oh man i am so bad at remembering shit lmaoooo if there was a set amount of 12 quotes for a module essay to remember like in english it'd be fine, but there is SO much shit

 

[nitto]

I don't find sparta too bad, they got up to some shenanigans. The gymnopadia literally means festival of naked boys. Athens asked them to help in a war and they said "nah mate we're praying rn come back later"

lmaooo i have the definition saved in my notes, hope nobody saw it. the karneia is pretty funny too. you chase a blindfolded man who lost his citizenship and became an inferior because he couldn't have kids. if you caught him, the city had good luck. if he escaped, looks like it's gonna be a shit year.

 

[radagastthebrown]

Oh my god, I've only got tonight and tomorrow morning to revise Minoan Crete, P+H, and a little bit of Pericles. What should I do????

 

[thelmalouise]

Oh my god, I've only got tonight and tomorrow morning to revise Minoan Crete, P+H, and a little bit of Pericles. What should I do????

pray
but honestly same, im literally studying for like 2 more hours then accepting my failures

 

[radagastthebrown]

How many paragraphs do I have to do for 10 and 15 mark questions?

 

[thelmalouise]

generally 3 paragraphs for 10 and 4 paragraphs for 15 if you can