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Shakespeare’s Roman World – Timeline
The Monarchy, 753 BC [BCE] to 509 BC [BCE]
753
Foundation of Rome
543-509
Tarquinius Superbus
Rape of Lucrece
The Republic, 509 BC [BCE] to 27 BC [BCE]
493
Legendary Coriolanus captures Corioli
60
58-50
'First triumvirate' (Pompey, Caesar, Crassus)
Caesar conquers Gaul; 55, 54 expeditions to Britain
49-45
Julius Caesar wins civil war against Pompey and
republicans
44
Caesar dictator for life; assassinated
43
'Second triumvirate' (Antony, Octavian
(i.e. Octavius Caesar), Lepidus);
proscriptions, murder of Cicero
32-31
Octavian wins civil war against
Mark Antony;
31 Battle of Actium
30
Death of Mark Antony
Birth of Publius Ovidius
Naso (Ovid), author of the
Metamorphoses.
The Empire, 27 BC [BCE] to AD [CE] 476
27
Octavian becomes first emperor Augustus
Horace,
Virgil's Aeneid; poetry of Ovid,
Tibullus, Propertius; history of Livy.
43
Death of Ovid
c. 46 Birth of Plutarch (author of The
Lives of the Noble Grecians and
Romans, the principal source for
Shakespeare’s Roman plays.
60-61
Boudicca's revolt
79-81
Emperor Titus (N.B. NOT Shakespeare’s
Titus Andronicus)
79 Eruption of Vesuvius
c. 120 Death of Plutarch
272
Dacia ceded to the Goths
Notional date for the mythical Titus Andronicus
(Titus returns from fighting the Goths).
455
Vandals sack Rome
476
Loss of western Roman empire complete