Ancient History Predictions/Thoughts (1 Viewer)

[nitto]

HAHAHAH, and our grade average is sooooo bad too so theres nothing dragging us up

rip, im lowkey dreading tomorrow cause looking back last year's paper wasn't all that tough. i hope that doesn't mean they're going to beef up this year's one, even if it makes scaling in our favour

 

[Serenawilder]

agrippina i'm pretty confident on, mostly cause the questions are pretty formulaic. most likely there's something on her early life as a short response, and the big 15 marker either on impact/legacy, or on the assessment of her character influencing her time

Oh yeah you can definitely bring in a skeleton response and easily adapt it to the question.

 

[Serenawilder]

i do sparta and aggy too, sparta is the biggest drag of all time, i keep getting it mixed up with pompeii and herculaneum and its so dry

I keep getting the content mixed up too

 

[thelmalouise]

Oh yeah you can definitely bring in a skeleton response and easily adapt it to the question.

are people bringing in ready responses ........

 

[nitto]

what does anyone predict Julio CLaudian essay will be on??

lets gooo another fellow julio claudian studier. they always give us two options to pick from. my guess?
option 1 - importance/impact/significance of the praetorian guard
option 2 - expansion/consolidation based question

i also imagine they would like to alternatively throw a curveball where it's 'assess the reign of X' and we have to compare him to the other princeps

 

[Serenawilder]

nice, i can hardly remember ancient / modern historian quotes + names for sparta. my teacher is telling me to integrate ancient, modern and archaeological evidence as my sources. all i remember is "asses under great loads" about the helots

AHAHAHAH I HAVE THAT QUOTE TOO

 

[chlolowery11]

lets gooo another fellow julio claudian studier. they always give us two options to pick from. my guess?
option 1 - importance/impact/significance of the praetorian guard
option 2 - expansion/consolidation based question

i also imagine they would like to alternatively throw a curveball where it's 'assess the reign of X' and we have to compare him to the other princeps

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

 

[nitto]

are people bringing in ready responses ........

im not, because i feel like it screws you over if you prepare things that arent flexible. you need to be able to remember all your key evidence and readily assign it to the question youre given

 

[Serenawilder]

are people bringing in ready responses ........

I am only doing that for Greek world

 

[nitto]

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

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

 

[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.