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	Sejanus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sejanus was born at Volsinii, in Etruria, to the family of Lucius Seius Strabo, a knight who became praetorian prefect under Augustus.
		Sejanus felt his position was unassailable, and plotted to seize power for himself.
		Sejanus' fall from power is recounted in detail by Roman historians, particularly Tacitus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aelius_Sejanus (362 words)

	sejanus and the chronology of Christ's death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Sejanus was born sometime between 4 BCE and 1 BCE in Etruria.
		In 17 CE, Sejanus was sent by Tiberius to accompany Drusus to suppress the mutiny of the Pannonian legion.
		Footnote55 Though Tiberius was probably also anti-semitic, he realized after Sejanus was exposed that many of the charges brought against the Jews were fabricated by Sejanus, so in 32 CE he issued a decree throughout the Empire not to mistreat the Jews.
	www.xenos.org /essays/sejanus.htm (4580 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Op-Eds - An Ornery Masterpiece
		The plot of "Sejanus" revolves around the homicidal schemes of the title character, a henchman of the savage ruler Tiberius, the latter played at the Globe by Shakespeare himself, in what is believed to be his last stage appearance.
		In the words of a 20th-century critic, "Sejanus" suggests that "the ultimate reality of politics is the amoral struggle for power in which the fittest survive." Jonson brings impressive poetic resources and moral discrimination to a presciently Orwellian parable of political devolution.
		"Sejanus" is part of a season of plays the RSC created to greet the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, the major act of religious terrorism in the Jacobean era.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2005/49110_20050707.asp (664 words)

	RSC : Sejanus: His Fall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The Emperor Tiberius raises a statue to honour Sejanus, unaware that his right hand man is ruthlessly working his way to the top, destroying everyone in his path.
		Sejanus: His Fall is directed by RSC Associate Director Gregory Doran.
		Sejanus: His Fall runs in repertoire at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon from 20 July - 5 November 2005.
	www.rsc.org.uk /onstage/plays/1869.asp (143 words)

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		Sejanus: His Fall by Ben Jonson Transcriber's note: This play is based on events that happend a millenia and a half before Jonson wrote it.
		He reprobated this slipshod amateurishness, and wrote his "Sejanus" like a scholar, reading Tacitus, Suetonius, and other authorities, to be certain of his facts, his setting, and his atmosphere, and somewhat pedantically noting his authorities in the margin when he came to print.
		"Sejanus" is a tragedy of genuine dramatic power in which is told with discriminating taste the story of the haughty favourite of Tiberius with his tragical overthrow.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/sjnsf10.txt (15685 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts reviews \| Sejanus: His Fall, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
		But the real focus is on Sejanus: the archetypal sidekick who, while doing Tiberius's dirty work, murders his son and aspires to be his heir.
		When Sejanus announces that the way to advance Tiberius's rule is "to present the shapes of dangers greater than they are", he speaks like a devious CIA boss.
		William Houston's superb Sejanus is a pony-tailed, bisexual adventurer for whom power is the ultimate aphrodisiac: I shall long remember his triumphant leap at the prospect of becoming Tiberius's heir.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1537410,00.html (404 words)

	RSC : People's Theatre, Newcastle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The Emperor Tiberius raises a statue to honour Sejanus, unaware that his right hand man is ruthlessly working his way to the top, destroying everyone in his way.
		Noone can stop him, but his fall is inevitable.
		Sejanus: His Fall runs in repertoire from the 22 November - 1 December at The People's Theatre.
	www.rsc.org.uk /home/2086.asp (336 words)

	Sejanus, His Fall, by Ben Jonson
		Sejanus, His Fall is one of Ben Jonson's lesser-known plays.
		Silius' statement in the opening scene encapsulates the state of political life: "Our lookes are call'd to question, and our wordes, how innocent soever, are made crimes." Central to the intrigue is Sejanus, a dangerously ambitious favourite of Tiberius, who - predictably - experiences a calamitous fall from grace.
		Sejanus' demise is thus met with something akin to indifference.
	www.dailyinfo.co.uk /reviews/theatre/sejanus.html (435 words)

	PHILO - Online Information article about PHILO
		This work does not fall within the number of the allegorical commentaries.
		Sejanus, under the reign of Tiberius, were spoken of, and the Chronicon of Eusebius (ed.
		15o, 151) informs us that these persecutions of Sejanus were related in the second book of the work now under discussion.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PER_PIG/PHILO.html (6559 words)

	Preoccupations: Sejanus
		The distance between us and Sejanus is so different from the bond we form with Volpone, yet both plays have at their heart a master-parasite relationship (as Billington notes).
		Volpone grows out of Sejanus, but also marks a most significant development in Jonson's art as he came to create a focus through our 'subversive sympathy with the clever rogue' (Martin Butler, programme note).
		The discontinuity between Sejanus' "atheism" and his downfall, the lack of interiority (Cavendish: 'failure to establish … characters whose fates you care about'), disappoints some.
	www.preoccupations.org /2005/08/sejanus.html (1185 words)

	London theatre tickets - Sejanus: His Fall on stage in London's West End Swan theatre - Play - ticket buying and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Sejanus was performed two years earlier, and Jonson was called before the Privy Council to answer charges of treason.
		Sejanus â“ His Fall by Jonson: From 20 July to 5 November 2005
		But, presented in an adroitly pruned text and in a splendid Swan production by Greg Doran, Ben Jonson's Sejanus: His Fall emerges as a scathingly sardonic and eminently stage-worthy study of despotism.
	www.albemarle-london.com /ShowInfo.php?Show_No=7083 (988 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Claudius
		His only other sibling to reach adulthood, Livilla, became involved with Sejanus and paid the ultimate price in the wake of the latter's fall from grace in AD 31.
		In this story, a hapless Claudius falls into power entirely as a result of accident, and very much against his will.
		The invasion itself, spearheaded by four legions, commenced in the summer of 43 and was to last for decades, ultimately falling short of the annexation of the whole island (if indeed that was Claudius's final objective at the outset).
	www.roman-emperors.org /claudius.htm (5562 words)

	COINS.HTML
		He was appointed prefect of Judaea through the intervention of Sejanus, a favourite of the Roman emperor Tiberius.
		Protected by Sejanus, he incurred the enmity of the Jews by insulting their religious sensibilities, as when he hung worship images of the Emperor throughout Jerusalem and had coins bearing pagan religious symbols minted.
		After Sejanus' fall (ad 31), Pilate was exposed to sharper criticism from the Jews, who may have capitalized on his vulnerability by obtaining a legal death sentence on Jesus (John 19:12).
	www.ancientbiblecoins.com /COINS.HTML (3050 words)

	FT.com / Arts & Weekend / Art, music & theatre - Sejanus: His Fall, Swan Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Ben Jonson's Sejanus is like I, Claudius without Claudius.
		Sejanus, the favourite of Tiberius, seduced the emperor's daughter-in-law Livia and poisoned his son Drusus.
		He also caused many high-level deaths on no better grounds than political opposition.
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	Sejanus
		He was suspected of conspiring (A.D. 23) with Livilla in a successful plot to poison her husband, the emperor's son Drusus.
		Sejanus was put to death by Tiberius, who feared that he was plotting against him.
		CULTURE: Houston's gunpowder plot; William Houston is the first RSC actor to play Ben Jonson's anti-hero, Aelius Sejanus.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0844337.html (215 words)

	310 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Rome was an enigma to the early moderns: it was almost unlimited in size and achievements, yet it declined and fell.
		Leaving aside the question of the founding of the republic - the subject of Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece - we will focus on the political themes generally associated with the fall of the republic and the rise of the imperial era.
		These themes are: tyranny, paranoia, imperialism, suspicion of power, freedom, republican liberty, the terrifying spectacle of a corrupted imperial political world, and whether virtue can defeat rather than merely heroically oppose corruption.
	www.sfu.ca /english/Courses2003-3/310.htm (311 words)

	Sejanus, His Fall: Ben Jonson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The text is based on extensive collation of the 1605 and 1616 versions and takes the earlier version as "copy-text." The introduction offers a radically new assessment of Jonson's "historiography" and his treatment of sources.
		It provides an explanation for the charge of treason leveled at Jonson over Sejanus and for which he had to answer to the Privy Council.
		Explanatory notes to the text provide much new information to facilitate a properly informed reading of the play.
	isbn.nu /0719057027 (429 words)

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		In this vein Jonson published 'Sejanus His Fall' being an allusion to the victims of the Elizabethan reign.The politic historians owed much to the work of Lipsius who regarded the sixteenth century to be a period of arbitrary rule and promoted Stoic Philosophy as a remedy to the perilous changes wars in Europe had fostered.
		However despite their dissidence Jonson and Camden were conservatives who disliked sudden change.Although Camden was a Protestant he disliked Protestant radicalism and Puritism.They felt the Catholic structures of England were civilised and limited the arbitrariness of State rule.They were critical of Oligarchy and those that opposed the monarchical system.
		Possibly politic historiography was counter-productive because they used the very 'dark' Roman Tiberian reign as a comparison.Jonson actually fabricated elements of his version of the Reign of Tiberius to support their allusion.2.
	www.australianhistoryparty.com /academia.htm (2988 words)

	The Holloway Pages: Ben Jonson: Works (1692 Folio): Sejanus
		F ever any Ruine were so great as to survive, I think this be one I send you, The Fall of SEJANUS.
		To revenge which Disgrace, Livia, the Wife of Drusus, (being before corrupted by him to her Dishonour, and the Discovery of her Husband's Counsels) Sejanus practiseth with, together with her Physician called Eudemus, and one Lygdus an Eunuch, to poyson Drusus.
		On Agrippina, Nero, Drusus; I, And on Sejanus: Not, that we distrust
	www.hollowaypages.com /jonson1692sejanus.htm (8860 words)

	Sejanus: His Fall, RSC Tickets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		No one can stop him, but his fall is inevitable. Sejanus: His Fall is directed by RSC Associate Director Gregory Doran.
		He also directs A Midsummer Nightâs Dream in The Comedies Season this year. Sejanus: His Fall runs in repertoire at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonÂ fromÂ 20 July - 5 November 2005.
		LAST PRODUCT = A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC Tickets
	www.warntickets.co.uk /firstcall/Tickets28.html (102 words)

	Sejanus, His Fall: A Monologue
		A monologue from the play by Ben Jonson
		NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Sejanus, His Fall (1603).
		If these were dangers--as I shame to think them--
	www.monologuearchive.com /j/jonson_002.html (166 words)

	Books of the poet: Ben Jonson - book works writings work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Lady WB and Celia) and to be taken seriously if need be.
		Poetaster, or, The Arraignment: Sejanus His Fall, the Devil Is an Ass, The New Inn, or, The Light Heart (Oxford World's Classics)
		The Selected Plays of Ben Jonson: Volume 1 : Sejanus, Volpone, Epicoene or the Silent Woman (Plays by Renaissance and Restoration Dramatists)
	www.poemhunter.com /ben-jonson/books/poet-14171 (1806 words)

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