. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. Andersen. Plate 70. TWO VIEWS OF THE AQUEDUCT OF CLAUDIUS(See p. 293) Aiiihrson [P 234 THE GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE and malicious. For example, it is by no means likely thatGermanicus was poisoned. There were always scandal-mongersto hint at poison when any member of the ruling house died ofdisease. But even with the most liberal discount for exaggera-tion, the record is a black one. Let us select two typicalstories, in order to suggest the kind of satanic halo whichsurrounds the imperial houses, as the ancient historians d
. The grandeur that was Rome; a survey of Roman culture and civilisation:. Andersen. Plate 70. TWO VIEWS OF THE AQUEDUCT OF CLAUDIUS(See p. 293) Aiiihrson [P 234 THE GROWTH OF THE EMPIRE and malicious. For example, it is by no means likely thatGermanicus was poisoned. There were always scandal-mongersto hint at poison when any member of the ruling house died ofdisease. But even with the most liberal discount for exaggera-tion, the record is a black one. Let us select two typicalstories, in order to suggest the kind of satanic halo whichsurrounds the imperial houses, as the ancient historians depictthem. Claudius, the conqueror of Britain, was in reality the ablestand best of the Claudian Caesars who succeeded Augustus, buthis wife Messalina, thirty-four years his junior, was a creatureof shameless lust and remorseless cruelty. Valerius Asiaticus,a Gaul by birth but now the richest noble of his day, was inpossession of the far-famed gardens of LucuUus. Messalinacoveted the park and accused him to her husband, with theinevitable result. Asiaticus died like a gentleman.
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