Clemens

Question 1

who was he

Answer 1

, slave of Agrippa Postumus,

Question 2

What effect did he almost have

Answer 2

• the country was nearly plunged into civil war

Question 3

What did Clemens do for his master

Answer 3

• went to Palansia to rescue Agrippa. He had already been assassinated. He stole his ashes, his till his beard and hair grew long (looked like his master age+appearance). Kept moving around spreading the rumour

Question 4

What did the crowds do

Answer 4

The rumour was spread
- Believers in a Rome, great crowds welcomed him in Ostia, and secretly in Rome
(does this show Tiberius’ unpopularity) “spread to every subversive malcontent”

Question 5

What did Tiberius decide what to do

Answer 5

• Tiberius was unsure what to do, to suppress with the army or let time eliminate the public naivety,
  alarmed and then ashamed that he had thought so.

Question 6

The end of Clemens

Answer 6

three soldiers to pretend complicity and offer money and support
when he was unguarded one night they took an adequate detachment
bound and gagged him at a night when he was unguarded, brought him to the palace.

Question 7

What did Tiberius ask him

Answer 7

How had he been made into Agrippa? “As you made yourself into Caesar” (the fact that Tacitus chooses to say this is negative for Tiberius

Question 8

His death

Answer 8

• Killed in a secluded part of the palace not publicly