HIST 101 1st Edition Lecture 11 Outline of Lecture I The Roman Empire from Augustus to the Crisis of the Third Century The Julio Claudians The Origins of Christianity A New Religion The Flavians The Five Good Emperors Lecture Notes II III The Julio Claudians Tiberius r 14 37 A D Gaius Caligula r 37 41 A D Claudius r 41 54 A D o The conquest of Britain 43 A D Nero r 54 68 A D o The great fire 64 A D The Empire remains stable amid Roman chaos o Solid infrastructure and bureaucracy o Defined boundaries Rhine Danube o Largely content population of 50 million 1000 officials o To become Roman not to free themselves from Rome o Augustus s mask of Republic slips The Origins of Christianity Judaism in the Roman Empire o Seleucid Asia the Hellenistic world King Antiochus IV Epiphanes r 175 164 B C Maccabees o Hasmonean kingdom of Israel 140 37 B C o Pompey and the Roman province of Judaea 63 B C o Dynasty of the Herods 37 B C 92 A D o The contested role of the Jewish messiah Greek christos Pharisees Saducees and Zealots Jesus of Nazareth c 4 B C c 30 A D o The region of Galilee Nazareth Capernaum Aramaic o Disciples o Jerusalem Passover o Pontius Pilate procurator of Judaea 26 36 A D o Crucifixion IV V VI A New Religion Saul Paul of Tarsus c 10 c 67 A D o Paul and Peter Gentiles o Visits and letters to the various urban ecclesiae assemblies Rome Corinth Thessalonica Ephesus Philippi A gradually forming New Testament in Greek o Gospels c 70 A D and later o Acts of the Apostles c 66 100 A D o Revelation c 96 A D o Didache c 70 A D Organization persecution and slow growth o episkopos bishop o atheism o Novelty o Martyr witness The Flavians Revolt of military commanders in Gaul Spain Africa 68 A D The Year of the Four Emperors 68 69 A D Vespasian 69 79 A D New men The Jewish War 66 70 A D o Rebellion in Roman Judaea 66 A D o Destruction of the Temple 70 A D Jerusalem o Masada 72 73 A D Titus 79 81 A D Domitian 81 96 A D The Five Good Emperors Cooperation with the Senate Policy of adoption Nerva 96 98 A D Trajan 98 117 A D o Dacia Romania Mesopotamia Hadrian 117 138 A D o Hadrian s Wall 122 A D Antoninus Pius 138 161 A D Marcus Aurelius 161 180 A D o Meditations 167 A D Stoicism o Commodus r 180 192 A D