Clemens (slave)
Clement (also known as pseudo-Agrippa ; † 16 in Rome ) was a rebel against the Roman emperor Tiberius .
Life
Clemens was a slave of Agrippa Postumus , who was adopted by Emperor Augustus in the year 4 as a possible heir to the throne, but fell from grace a little later and was banished to the island of Planasia . After the death of Augustus in 14, Clemens is said to have intended to free Agrippa from exile, probably to have him proclaimed emperor by the troops in Germania against Tiberius.
After the assassination of Agrippa, perhaps caused by Tiberius, Clemens passed himself off as the latter. He succeeded in gathering a considerable crowd of supporters in Italy, so that Tiberius began to see him as a serious threat to his still young autocracy. The emperor had the pretender captured and killed in the palace without a public trial .
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literature
- Thomas Grünewald : Bandits in the Roman Empire: Myth and Reality. Routledge, London 2004, ISBN 0-415-32744-X , pp. 140-144.
- Roderich Kirchner: Sentences in the work of Tacitus (= Palingenesia . Vol. 74). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07802-9 , pp. 147-151.
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| SURNAME | Clement |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pseudo-Agrippa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman slave and rebel against Emperor Tiberius |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16 |
| Place of death | Rome |