Imitatio C. Caesaris, divi fili, nella congiura di Clemente

The paper’s aim is to demonstrate how, during the so-called conspiracy orchestrated by Clemens (Pseudo Agrippa) against Tiberius, strategies of communication were adapted to assimilate the destabilizing action to the Octavian’s rise. The purpose was to justify an illegal action with the exemplum of the Empire’s founder and probably to suggest a political evolution of the principate in contrast with Tiberius’ one. The recall of the Octavian’s revolutionary rise meant to stray from the political compromise signed by Augustus firstly, and then by his successor, with the conservative senatorial nobility.