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- elected dictator for life (never served as an "emperor").
- ceaser.
- assassinated in a conspiracy led by brutus, cassius, and other politicians ( march 15, 44 bc; "the ides of march").
- ceaser.
- first emperor of rome; first emperor of the julio-claudian dynasty.
- augustus.
- defeated antony and cleopatra in the battle of actium (31bc).
- augustus.
- regarded as the best roman emperor; well loved by his people.
- augustus.
- ordered the census recorded in luke 2:1; was ruling rome when jesus was born.
- augustus.
- spent most of his reign on the island of capri; left rome in the hands of the ruthless sejanus.
- tiberius.
- was emperor of rome when jesus was crucified.
- tiberius.
- believed he was a god; wanted the heads of statues in rome replaced with his own likeness.
- caligula.
- his facorite racehorse, incitatus, lived in luxury in the imperial palace; often threw dinner parties in honor of incitatus and even appointed his horse a senator.
- caligula.
- well-educated and literate; wrote an autobiography which was considered a masterpiece of ancient literature.
- claudius.
- drove the jews out of rome.
- claudius.
- his first wife, messalina, was inplicated in an assassination plot and forced to commit suicide.
- claudius.
- died after eating poisoned mushrooms -- agrippian was likely responsible.
- claudius.
- believed to be responsible for the great fire of rome (ad 64); later blamed christians in rome. he had christiand slaughtered in the aftermath of the great fire.
- nero.
- peter and paul were probably victims of this man's persecution.
- nero.
- considered the most moral man to ever rule rome; married to only one woman and was faithful to her.
- vespasian.
- responsible for building the coliseum in rome.
- vespasian.
- during his reign, mount veruvius erupted, burying the cities of pompeii and herculaenum.
- titus.
- believed he was a god and those who did not acknowledge him as a god were executed.
- domitian.
- banished the apostle john to the island of patmos; john wrote revelation there.
- domitian.