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Lecture 06: The Roman Republic and Julius Caesar
753 – 31 B.C.
(pp. 96-103)
The Founding of Rome, 753 B.C.
Romulus & Remus
Birth of the Republic
509 B.C.
Rēs Publica = Things Public (Public Realm)
Complex constitution, shared powers
“No one could say for certain, not even a native, whether the constitution as a
whole were an aristocracy or democracy or despotism.”
Polybius, 203? – 123 B.C.
Roman Republic After 287 BC
Italy by 265 B.C.
Expansion of Roman Control into an Empire
The Gracchi, Tiberius & Gaius
Gaius Marius, 157 – 86 B.C.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla, 138 – 78 B.C.
Cursus Honorum
Marcus Porcius Cato (The Younger) 95 – 46 B.C.
Julius Caesar & Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, Co-Consuls for 59 B.C.
First Triumvirate: Julius Caesar, Marcus Licinius Crassus, Gnaeus Pompeius
Magnus
Vercingetorix the Gaul
Marcus Antonius (Mark Antony), 83 – 30 B.C.
Caesar and the Civil War, 50 – 45 B.C.
The Assassination of Caesar, 15 March 44 B.C.
Second Triumvirate:
Mark Antony, Gaius Octavius Thurinus (Octavian), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus
First Emperor of Rome, 27 B.C. – 14 A.D.
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