A Chronology of the Roman Empire
... both Republican and imperial history into ‘early’, ‘middle’ and ‘late’ periods, thus referring to the ‘Early’ Republic, the ‘High’ Republic and the ‘Late’ Republic, and to the ‘Early’, ‘High’ and ‘Late’ Empire. The distinction between ‘Republic’ and ‘Empire’ can be a little confusing to newcomers, b ...
... both Republican and imperial history into ‘early’, ‘middle’ and ‘late’ periods, thus referring to the ‘Early’ Republic, the ‘High’ Republic and the ‘Late’ Republic, and to the ‘Early’, ‘High’ and ‘Late’ Empire. The distinction between ‘Republic’ and ‘Empire’ can be a little confusing to newcomers, b ...
PDF - La Trobe University
... winning combination allowed him to craft a position for himself that changed his world and the world around him, and established an enduring legacy which lasted for millennia. In the years after his death, Caesar’s great-nephew (and later adopted son) Octavian ensured that his uncle’s name would liv ...
... winning combination allowed him to craft a position for himself that changed his world and the world around him, and established an enduring legacy which lasted for millennia. In the years after his death, Caesar’s great-nephew (and later adopted son) Octavian ensured that his uncle’s name would liv ...
Book 3 - Roman Roads Media
... intention of establishing either their truth or their falsehood. This much licence is conceded to the ancients, that by intermingling human actions with divine they may confer a more august dignity on the origins of states. Now, if any nation ought to be allowed to claim a sacred origin and point ba ...
... intention of establishing either their truth or their falsehood. This much licence is conceded to the ancients, that by intermingling human actions with divine they may confer a more august dignity on the origins of states. Now, if any nation ought to be allowed to claim a sacred origin and point ba ...
PDF-1 - RUcore - Rutgers University
... clearly demonstrated that the Romans did not have a fully articulated concept of crisis, and that their response was often ad hoc and unsystematic. In the early Republic, crises were handed off to an executive official (the dictator) to be managed. As the Senate grew in stature, it began to take a l ...
... clearly demonstrated that the Romans did not have a fully articulated concept of crisis, and that their response was often ad hoc and unsystematic. In the early Republic, crises were handed off to an executive official (the dictator) to be managed. As the Senate grew in stature, it began to take a l ...
Cicero after Exile pdf - Western Political Science Association
... Caesar, the general Pompey, and Marcus Crassus combined their political forces together into an unlikely alliance which has gone down in history as the First Triumvirate. These three men, between them, were largely able to control the political affairs of Rome on and off (though mostly on) for a per ...
... Caesar, the general Pompey, and Marcus Crassus combined their political forces together into an unlikely alliance which has gone down in history as the First Triumvirate. These three men, between them, were largely able to control the political affairs of Rome on and off (though mostly on) for a per ...
The Military Reforms of Gaius Marius in their Social, Economic, and
... 111 until 105, between the Romans and a Numidian king named Jugurtha. One of the main focuses of his work is to show the rise of Gaius Marius as the ultimate commander of the war and as a rising figure in Roman politics.2 Sallust details army movements, maneuvers, logistics, and all the battles of t ...
... 111 until 105, between the Romans and a Numidian king named Jugurtha. One of the main focuses of his work is to show the rise of Gaius Marius as the ultimate commander of the war and as a rising figure in Roman politics.2 Sallust details army movements, maneuvers, logistics, and all the battles of t ...
Study Notes on Cicero and Natural Law
... 1. Cicero is poised at the crossroads between the ancient and modern worlds. Greece had already fallen, but Greek scholars flocked to Rome and brought their learning with them. Cicero, who studied under Greek teachers, acquired this learning. He transmits to us the philosophical treasures of antiqui ...
... 1. Cicero is poised at the crossroads between the ancient and modern worlds. Greece had already fallen, but Greek scholars flocked to Rome and brought their learning with them. Cicero, who studied under Greek teachers, acquired this learning. He transmits to us the philosophical treasures of antiqui ...
A Fork in the Road: The Catilinarian Conspiracy`s Impact on Cicero`s
... successfully got himself appointed by the Senate and Assembly as dictator — Rome‘s first dictator. He served until 79 BC when he retired. During his three years as dictator, he established proscriptions to make certain people officially enemies of the state; he did this as a way to restore the Roman ...
... successfully got himself appointed by the Senate and Assembly as dictator — Rome‘s first dictator. He served until 79 BC when he retired. During his three years as dictator, he established proscriptions to make certain people officially enemies of the state; he did this as a way to restore the Roman ...
Quintus Sertorius and the Rebellion in Spain
... the early first century B.C.E. and lasting until Octavian installed himself as the first emperor. Throughout this time of civil war and political upheaval, various strongly dictatorial men, backed by their military prowess or their current political favor, vied for power. In this environment two ene ...
... the early first century B.C.E. and lasting until Octavian installed himself as the first emperor. Throughout this time of civil war and political upheaval, various strongly dictatorial men, backed by their military prowess or their current political favor, vied for power. In this environment two ene ...
- 123deurmat.nl
... Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus was a complex character, and in many ways an enigma. Better known to the English-speaking world as Pompey the Great, his persona, like every other man's, had two sides, though in him it stretched to extremes. There was something of Jekyll and Hyde in Pompey. One side, the brig ...
... Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus was a complex character, and in many ways an enigma. Better known to the English-speaking world as Pompey the Great, his persona, like every other man's, had two sides, though in him it stretched to extremes. There was something of Jekyll and Hyde in Pompey. One side, the brig ...
ROMAN HISTORY
... each found numerous and ardent supporters. Without decrying the signal abilities of these chiefs, it must nevertheless be remembered that each commanded a homogeneous army and had behind him a compact nation the most warlike and powerful of his time. The adversaries also of the Greek and the Roman w ...
... each found numerous and ardent supporters. Without decrying the signal abilities of these chiefs, it must nevertheless be remembered that each commanded a homogeneous army and had behind him a compact nation the most warlike and powerful of his time. The adversaries also of the Greek and the Roman w ...
ROME, 63 - Rackcdn.com
... Sallust continued, “... and it was just down that same street that, exactly 350 years later, the consul Opimius caved in the skull of the tribune Gaius Gracchus. History moves in cycles, as they say. As I was finishing my Massic wine (a foul vintage; not like the sweet Rhaetic that you are serving t ...
... Sallust continued, “... and it was just down that same street that, exactly 350 years later, the consul Opimius caved in the skull of the tribune Gaius Gracchus. History moves in cycles, as they say. As I was finishing my Massic wine (a foul vintage; not like the sweet Rhaetic that you are serving t ...
his master`s voice
... Latin scrawls with Greek shorthand to “truncate and contract” words (60, my translation). Then came the breakthrough: Tiro then combined these mixed signs like notes in a score to record not just phrases, but, as Cicero marvels in a letter to Atticus, “whole sentences” (III, 161). Through repetition ...
... Latin scrawls with Greek shorthand to “truncate and contract” words (60, my translation). Then came the breakthrough: Tiro then combined these mixed signs like notes in a score to record not just phrases, but, as Cicero marvels in a letter to Atticus, “whole sentences” (III, 161). Through repetition ...
The Mithridatic Wars
... about, Mithridates‟s conquests on the northern Black Sea, for it was much too concerned with its campaigns in North Africa and defending against Germanic tribes to its north. However, the Senate would not tolerate Mithridates and Nicomedes in Paphlagonia, and it ordered both kings to evacuate Cappa ...
... about, Mithridates‟s conquests on the northern Black Sea, for it was much too concerned with its campaigns in North Africa and defending against Germanic tribes to its north. However, the Senate would not tolerate Mithridates and Nicomedes in Paphlagonia, and it ordered both kings to evacuate Cappa ...
Rome and Italy
... scourging or beheading of anyone who appealed, ‘but if the law was disregarded on either point it did no more than term it “a wicked deed”. Such was the sense of shame amongst men at that time that this, I suppose, was thought to impose a legal sanction which would be sufficiently binding. Today har ...
... scourging or beheading of anyone who appealed, ‘but if the law was disregarded on either point it did no more than term it “a wicked deed”. Such was the sense of shame amongst men at that time that this, I suppose, was thought to impose a legal sanction which would be sufficiently binding. Today har ...
мнемон - Центр антиковедения СПбГУ
... was intended by this to avoid any clash between the two. Again, this time in 74 BC, the senate sent both consuls against Mithridates but the tasks were split. Lucullus had to fight the Pontian king while the other consul, Cotta, was in charge of securing the province of Bithynia.13 For this traditio ...
... was intended by this to avoid any clash between the two. Again, this time in 74 BC, the senate sent both consuls against Mithridates but the tasks were split. Lucullus had to fight the Pontian king while the other consul, Cotta, was in charge of securing the province of Bithynia.13 For this traditio ...
Caesar or Rex? - Cardinal Scholar Home
... This paper will examine Caesar's life and attempt to change the misconception that Caesar had a long term goal of monarchy and that he always worked toward attaining that goal. Caesar only seriously thought about seizing absolute power when it was his for the taking following the Civil War. He was n ...
... This paper will examine Caesar's life and attempt to change the misconception that Caesar had a long term goal of monarchy and that he always worked toward attaining that goal. Caesar only seriously thought about seizing absolute power when it was his for the taking following the Civil War. He was n ...
Roman History - Shadows Government
... The words Patrician and Plebeian have taken on different connotations of wealthy and poor in modern English, but no such distinction existed in Roman times. The two classes were simply ancestral or inherited. A citizen's class was fixed by birth rather than by wealth. Patricians monopolized all of t ...
... The words Patrician and Plebeian have taken on different connotations of wealthy and poor in modern English, but no such distinction existed in Roman times. The two classes were simply ancestral or inherited. A citizen's class was fixed by birth rather than by wealth. Patricians monopolized all of t ...
Roman Imperialism - McMaster University, Canada
... limestone ridges which border it that its inhabitants were doubtless often compelled to defend their title by force of arms. Before the Indo-European tribes reached central Italy, Latium was possessed by a race of unknown origin,2 men of short stature and dark complexion, who had not yet learned the ...
... limestone ridges which border it that its inhabitants were doubtless often compelled to defend their title by force of arms. Before the Indo-European tribes reached central Italy, Latium was possessed by a race of unknown origin,2 men of short stature and dark complexion, who had not yet learned the ...
The Grand Strategy: A Study on Hannibal`s Stratagem During the
... assistance as well hoping that one of the major powers would come to their aid. Carthage quickly moved into action and successfully persuaded Hiero II to cease his attacks on the Mamertines. However, they demanded that a Carthaginian garrison be place in the city of Messana for their services. Rome ...
... assistance as well hoping that one of the major powers would come to their aid. Carthage quickly moved into action and successfully persuaded Hiero II to cease his attacks on the Mamertines. However, they demanded that a Carthaginian garrison be place in the city of Messana for their services. Rome ...
467 Appendix 3A, VI, Attachment 5, Detail A MITHRIDATES and
... Pompey a command over all Asia equal to that of the governors and valid until the conclusion of the war...(without time limit).” A battle between Mithridates VII and Pompey near the Euphrates “resulted in a universal overthrow.” Mithridates fled to son-in-law, Tigranes, king of Armenia, who priorly ...
... Pompey a command over all Asia equal to that of the governors and valid until the conclusion of the war...(without time limit).” A battle between Mithridates VII and Pompey near the Euphrates “resulted in a universal overthrow.” Mithridates fled to son-in-law, Tigranes, king of Armenia, who priorly ...
Some Minor Magistrates of the Roman Republic
... 180 of the individuals who held the curule and plebeian aedileships in the period prior to the passage of the Lex Villia Annalis alone. Their names are frequently preserved by Livy, most often during his standard, annalistic accounts of the magistrates elected in each year and their assignments. Bo ...
... 180 of the individuals who held the curule and plebeian aedileships in the period prior to the passage of the Lex Villia Annalis alone. Their names are frequently preserved by Livy, most often during his standard, annalistic accounts of the magistrates elected in each year and their assignments. Bo ...
International Journal of Arts and Humanities(IJAH)
... attention to the story of corruption in the Roman republic. ‘Ancient writers ascribed Rome's political difficulties during the last century of the Republic to failures of character, specifically to ambition [ambition], avaritia [greed], luxuria [extravagance], and libido [license] (Levick 1982, p. 5 ...
... attention to the story of corruption in the Roman republic. ‘Ancient writers ascribed Rome's political difficulties during the last century of the Republic to failures of character, specifically to ambition [ambition], avaritia [greed], luxuria [extravagance], and libido [license] (Levick 1982, p. 5 ...
A History of Rome to 565 AD
... foundation of the city, including the regal period. We know also that as late as the time of the Gracchi it was customary for the Pontifex Maximus to record on a tablet for public inspection the chief events of each year. When this custom began is uncertain and it can only be proven for the time whe ...
... foundation of the city, including the regal period. We know also that as late as the time of the Gracchi it was customary for the Pontifex Maximus to record on a tablet for public inspection the chief events of each year. When this custom began is uncertain and it can only be proven for the time whe ...
Guide – Unit 4 – Rome: Civil War Antony confronts Brutus and
... How does Octavian’s spokesman describe Cleopatra? What “promise” has Antony made to her? ...
... How does Octavian’s spokesman describe Cleopatra? What “promise” has Antony made to her? ...
Roman Republic
The Roman Republic (Latin: Res publica Romana; Classical Latin: [ˈreːs ˈpuːb.lɪ.ka roːˈmaː.na]) was the period of ancient Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom, traditionally dated to 509 BC, and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire. It was during this period that Rome's control expanded from the city's immediate surroundings to hegemony over the entire Mediterranean world. During the first two centuries of its existence the Roman Republic expanded through a combination of conquest and alliance, from central Italy to the entire Italian peninsula. By the following century it included North Africa, Spain, and what is now southern France. Two centuries after that, towards the end of the 1st century BC, it included the rest of modern France, Greece, and much of the eastern Mediterranean. By this time, internal tensions led to a series of civil wars, culminating with the assassination of Julius Caesar, which led to the transition from republic to empire. The exact date of transition can be a matter of interpretation. Historians have variously proposed Julius Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon River in 49 BC, Caesar's appointment as dictator for life in 44 BC, and the defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC. However, most use the same date as did the ancient Romans themselves, the Roman Senate's grant of extraordinary powers to Octavian and his adopting the title Augustus in 27 BC, as the defining event ending the Republic..Roman government was headed by two consuls, elected annually by the citizens and advised by a senate composed of appointed magistrates. As Roman society was very hierarchical by modern standards, the evolution of the Roman government was heavily influenced by the struggle between the patricians, Rome's land-holding aristocracy, who traced their ancestry to the founding of Rome, and the plebeians, the far more numerous citizen-commoners. Over time, the laws that gave patricians exclusive rights to Rome's highest offices were repealed or weakened, and leading plebeian families became full members of the aristocracy. The leaders of the Republic developed a strong tradition and morality requiring public service and patronage in peace and war, making military and political success inextricably linked. Many of Rome's legal and legislative structures (later codified into the Justinian Code, and again into the Napoleonic Code) can still be observed throughout Europe and much of the world in modern nation states and international organizations.