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. 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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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...ghts of slave but he had bad judgement. He use to judge before listening to his bo...
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Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
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Message: The pronoun 'He' must be used with a third-person verb: 'uses'.
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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 : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 9.8082437276 10% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 37.0 43.0788530466 86% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 52.1666666667 73% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1443.0 1977.66487455 73% => OK
No of words: 311.0 407.700716846 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.63987138264 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19942759058 4.48103885553 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57948767812 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 212.727598566 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.575562700965 0.524837075471 110% => OK
syllable_count: 442.8 618.680645161 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.883848619 48.9658058833 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 72.15 100.406767564 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.55 20.6045352989 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.45 5.45110844103 27% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.5376344086 144% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.85842293907 285% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210051730761 0.236089414692 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0697097015162 0.076458572812 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0826933852549 0.0737576698707 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120197097553 0.150856017488 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0774354813948 0.0645574589148 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.2 11.7677419355 70% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 73.17 58.1214874552 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 10.1575268817 67% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.34 10.9000537634 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 86.8835125448 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.002688172 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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