The emperor Claudius of Rome ruled an empire spanning three continents between 41 and 54 CE. His reign was of massive importance to the history of ancient European civilization. In fact, the emperor was among the most innovative, fair, and wise in all Roman history. However, because Claudius suffered from physical handicaps and spoke with a stutter, ancient authors were biased against him. Consequently, their descriptions of his time in power are almost uniformly hostile, and many ancient historians ignore all of the good that he did.
Claudius’s reign was important for its major innovations. He conquered the island of Britain and incorporated it into the Roman Empire. He also built a new harbor for Rome and oversaw the construction of several new aqueducts, which brought clean water into the city. He even created laws to protect the rights of slaves and expand Roman citizenship to new people. All of these facts suggest that he was a gifted ruler with strong judgment, despite what may be found in histories written by his detractors.
Another reason for the hostility of ancient authors toward the reign of Claudius has to do with the fact that the writers were usually of senatorial class. Claudius was not elected to power by the Senate and severely limited its traditional powers during his reign. However, illustrating his wisdom, instead of entrusting high bureaucratic positions to senators, he preferred to give them to trustworthy slaves and former slaves (freedmen), whom he felt were more loyal to him. They worked efficiently, creating a bureaucratic framework for all future emperors. Claudius should be praised for giving political opportunities to new groups of people such as former slaves and even the women of the imperial household, including his wives.
Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on points made in the reading.
Claudius is described as one of the most successful emperor as well as vicious fool. The text and the lecture has contradicting ideas. The professor thinks that Claudius being called as the greatest emperor can be challenged using detailed circumstances from Claudius's life. I have compared contrasted and summarised both the ideas below.
The textbook text describes Claudius as one of the most successful Roman emperor. His empire was spread between 3 continents between 41 to 54 CE. He was supposed to be the most innovative fair and wise in all Roman history. He helped build the ports for rome and aqueducts that brought fresh water to homes. He was praised to have slaves or former slaves for at high bureaucratic position. He aslo entrusted his wives and gave them political opportunities.
The professor admits that he did few good deeds in his reign but he agrees with the detractors of claudius that he was weak as a leader. He started describing his argument by pointing out the way Claudius became the ruler, by assasinating the emperor and by paying off the army. He almost took Rome to a civil war. He did work for the rights of slave but he had bad judgement. He use to judge before listening to his both sides. He concoured britain to win its prestige but destroyed its indegenious people.
Slaves that he kept on the higher bureaucratic positions were notorious and subject to bribe. His wives were killers and often poisioned people to find their way. As fate came around and his last wife killed him by using poisioning mushroom to make her son Nero as the emperor. Nero later came to be known as one of the worst ruler of Rome, which questions the judgement of Claudius making Nero as his successor of the throne.
Claudius might have been a good man by freeing slaves and developing the country but he was a fool that lead his pride and foolishness get to him.
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Suggestion: used
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...dge before listening to his both sides. He concoured britain to win its prestige b...
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Suggestion:
...ureaucratic positions were notorious and subject to bribe. His wives were killers...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so, well, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 5.04856512141 40% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 7.30242825607 219% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 38.0 22.412803532 170% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1563.0 1373.03311258 114% => OK
No of words: 331.0 270.72406181 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72205438066 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26537283232 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62037181081 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 145.348785872 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574018126888 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 476.1 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 3.25607064018 369% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 13.0662251656 161% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 21.2450331126 71% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.0218683841 49.2860985944 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 74.4285714286 110.228320801 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7619047619 21.698381199 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.38095238095 7.06452816374 20% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 4.19205298013 191% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 4.45695364238 247% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215126816979 0.272083759551 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0694181735187 0.0996497079465 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0807110113745 0.0662205650399 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123944352781 0.162205337803 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0759286440217 0.0443174109184 171% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.7 13.3589403974 65% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 73.17 53.8541721854 136% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 11.0289183223 62% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.8 12.2367328918 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 63.6247240618 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.498013245 76% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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