Veni vidi vici and Caesar`s triumph
... Tituli seen on reliefs depicting triumphal processions almost exclusively have the form modern literature calls tabula ansata; that is a board with small handles, ansae, on the short sides. Tabula ansata is a modern and rather unfortunate term,22 as Latin authors always call the placards tituli and ...
... Tituli seen on reliefs depicting triumphal processions almost exclusively have the form modern literature calls tabula ansata; that is a board with small handles, ansae, on the short sides. Tabula ansata is a modern and rather unfortunate term,22 as Latin authors always call the placards tituli and ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero
... disliked and distrusted Pompey didn't help. Even so, he had little trouble gaining election to each political office, successfully winning the Praetorship in 67 BC. Perhaps a bit of luck, or simply being the right man at the right time played a role, but regardless, Cicero was steadily rising. Becom ...
... disliked and distrusted Pompey didn't help. Even so, he had little trouble gaining election to each political office, successfully winning the Praetorship in 67 BC. Perhaps a bit of luck, or simply being the right man at the right time played a role, but regardless, Cicero was steadily rising. Becom ...
The Fall of the Roman Republic
... be Rome’s contribution to the development of classical city-states seemed real enough. In fact, it was the temporary product of the period when Rome was fighting first for her survival in Italy and then for supremacy over her Italian neighbours. However, security within Italy brought contacts with p ...
... be Rome’s contribution to the development of classical city-states seemed real enough. In fact, it was the temporary product of the period when Rome was fighting first for her survival in Italy and then for supremacy over her Italian neighbours. However, security within Italy brought contacts with p ...
julius caesar`s system understanding of the gallic crisis
... (2) The customs of war of the time. When studying historical events, one should try to wear the lenses of the time under scrutiny, and refrain, as much as possible, form passing moral judgment based on the sensibilities of today on events that date back more than two thousand years. That being said, ...
... (2) The customs of war of the time. When studying historical events, one should try to wear the lenses of the time under scrutiny, and refrain, as much as possible, form passing moral judgment based on the sensibilities of today on events that date back more than two thousand years. That being said, ...
appendix - Unika Repository
... Act IV, Scene 1: Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus decide who must be executed to protect their new power in Rome. Antony sends Lepidus on an errand, and then belittles him as an insignificant man who is not fit to rule but who will be useful for a while. Antony and Octavius begin to plan a campaign ag ...
... Act IV, Scene 1: Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus decide who must be executed to protect their new power in Rome. Antony sends Lepidus on an errand, and then belittles him as an insignificant man who is not fit to rule but who will be useful for a while. Antony and Octavius begin to plan a campaign ag ...
Sarah Cohen Ms. Schwartz 12AP English Literature 2 June 2011
... Unlike Gerome’s Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s Cleopatra is more complex. In creating Cleopatra, Shakespeare used his power of rhetoric to create a vivid Pharaoh with a bipolar personality. For example when Antony is gay, Cleopatra is melancholy, when Antony is downcast, Cleopatra is merry. Yet Cleopatra ...
... Unlike Gerome’s Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s Cleopatra is more complex. In creating Cleopatra, Shakespeare used his power of rhetoric to create a vivid Pharaoh with a bipolar personality. For example when Antony is gay, Cleopatra is melancholy, when Antony is downcast, Cleopatra is merry. Yet Cleopatra ...
Cohen Sarah Cohen Ms. Schwartz 12AP English Literature 2 June
... Unlike Gerome’s Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s Cleopatra is more complex. In creating Cleopatra, Shakespeare used his power of rhetoric to create a vivid Pharaoh with a bipolar personality. For example when Antony is gay, Cleopatra is melancholy, when Antony is downcast, Cleopatra is merry. Yet Cleopatra ...
... Unlike Gerome’s Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s Cleopatra is more complex. In creating Cleopatra, Shakespeare used his power of rhetoric to create a vivid Pharaoh with a bipolar personality. For example when Antony is gay, Cleopatra is melancholy, when Antony is downcast, Cleopatra is merry. Yet Cleopatra ...
Julius Caesar Reading Guide
... males). The government was to be ruled by two consuls, and senators were elected from the upper class (aristocrats). These men were to be powerful advisors to the consuls. However, after his military conquests, Caesar became the only ruler of Rome. This made many senators uneasy. They feared Caesar ...
... males). The government was to be ruled by two consuls, and senators were elected from the upper class (aristocrats). These men were to be powerful advisors to the consuls. However, after his military conquests, Caesar became the only ruler of Rome. This made many senators uneasy. They feared Caesar ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero
... 63 BCE. This is the same year in which he dealt with the conspiracy of Cataline. Lucius Sergius Catalina, a political who was habitually unsuccessful at attaining the consulship, gathered an army to overthrow the Roman state. Thanks to Cicero’s exposure of Cataline to the Senate, the senators enacte ...
... 63 BCE. This is the same year in which he dealt with the conspiracy of Cataline. Lucius Sergius Catalina, a political who was habitually unsuccessful at attaining the consulship, gathered an army to overthrow the Roman state. Thanks to Cicero’s exposure of Cataline to the Senate, the senators enacte ...
Book I Outline
... through the Helvetians; because of Roman power he was in despair not only about that, but also about the influence that he did have. 27-32. Caesar also found out in his inquiry that in an unsuccessful cavalry battle a few days earlier the initial flight from the battle had been started by Dumnorix a ...
... through the Helvetians; because of Roman power he was in despair not only about that, but also about the influence that he did have. 27-32. Caesar also found out in his inquiry that in an unsuccessful cavalry battle a few days earlier the initial flight from the battle had been started by Dumnorix a ...
DBG Book 1 Outline
... through the Helvetians; because of Roman power he was in despair not only about that, but also about the influence that he did have. 27-32. Caesar also found out in his inquiry that in an unsuccessful cavalry battle a few days earlier the initial flight from the battle had been started by Dumnorix a ...
... through the Helvetians; because of Roman power he was in despair not only about that, but also about the influence that he did have. 27-32. Caesar also found out in his inquiry that in an unsuccessful cavalry battle a few days earlier the initial flight from the battle had been started by Dumnorix a ...
Brutus, Marcus Junius (85 B.C.
... its chief organizer, Cassius; the martyrdom of Cato, whose daughter Brutus had married in 45 B.C.; consciousness of his descent from L. Junius Brutus, who slew the last king of Rome; and Stoic dogma, which declared the murder of a tyrant not only just but obligatory. At the time no one accused him o ...
... its chief organizer, Cassius; the martyrdom of Cato, whose daughter Brutus had married in 45 B.C.; consciousness of his descent from L. Junius Brutus, who slew the last king of Rome; and Stoic dogma, which declared the murder of a tyrant not only just but obligatory. At the time no one accused him o ...
Caesar: Selections from his Commentarii De Bello Gallico
... describes not as the opening battle in a campaign to conquer all Gaul, but instead merely as an intervention, a sort of police action to safeguard the integrity of the Roman province of which he was governor. Book Four (4.24–36.1) picks up four years later when Caesar appeared to have brought all Ga ...
... describes not as the opening battle in a campaign to conquer all Gaul, but instead merely as an intervention, a sort of police action to safeguard the integrity of the Roman province of which he was governor. Book Four (4.24–36.1) picks up four years later when Caesar appeared to have brought all Ga ...
Julius Caesar`s Invasions of Britain
... Roman world: they are unwilling to accept the paternalistic view that ‘the Britons did what they were told by the Romans because it represented ‘progress’.” 1 The first source which I will be considering is Collingwood’s Roman Britain and the English Settlements. Robin George Collingwood was a Briti ...
... Roman world: they are unwilling to accept the paternalistic view that ‘the Britons did what they were told by the Romans because it represented ‘progress’.” 1 The first source which I will be considering is Collingwood’s Roman Britain and the English Settlements. Robin George Collingwood was a Briti ...
Julius Caesar Act and Scene Summaries
... conspiracy but that he will now be part of the new commonwealth. The plebeians cheer Brutus’s apparent kindness, declaring that Brutus should be Caesar. Antony asks the audience to listen, for he has come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. He acknowledges Brutus’s charge that Caesar was ambitious, o ...
... conspiracy but that he will now be part of the new commonwealth. The plebeians cheer Brutus’s apparent kindness, declaring that Brutus should be Caesar. Antony asks the audience to listen, for he has come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. He acknowledges Brutus’s charge that Caesar was ambitious, o ...
POPULARßIDEOLOGY
... significance that not only the leaders of the optimates but also those of the populares were always senators, that is men who sought to realise their own aspirations in ...
... significance that not only the leaders of the optimates but also those of the populares were always senators, that is men who sought to realise their own aspirations in ...
Searching for Blood in the Streets: Mapping
... contionalis—an interest-group of plebeians who spent the majority of their time attending contiones and participating in legislative activity—has been contested by later scholars, his examination of organizational structures and the composition of the late Republic’s crowds is valuable. Like Lintott ...
... contionalis—an interest-group of plebeians who spent the majority of their time attending contiones and participating in legislative activity—has been contested by later scholars, his examination of organizational structures and the composition of the late Republic’s crowds is valuable. Like Lintott ...
Julius Caesar unit
... the coalition & the glue that held it together once tensions formed between Pompey and Crassus ...
... the coalition & the glue that held it together once tensions formed between Pompey and Crassus ...
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... Like Tacitus, whom he may have known, he wrote his historical works rather late in life, during the period of the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian – a time when, after a long lapse, something in the nature of free speech (providing that the imperial idea was respected) was encouraged. Yet Plutarch, not ...
... Like Tacitus, whom he may have known, he wrote his historical works rather late in life, during the period of the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian – a time when, after a long lapse, something in the nature of free speech (providing that the imperial idea was respected) was encouraged. Yet Plutarch, not ...
ancient rome from the earliest times down to
... So far as we know, the early inhabitants of Italy were divided into three races, the IAPYGIAN, ETRUSCAN, and ITALIAN. The IAPYGIANS were the first to settle in Italy. They probably came from the north, and were pushed south by later immigrations, until they were crowded into the southeastern corner ...
... So far as we know, the early inhabitants of Italy were divided into three races, the IAPYGIAN, ETRUSCAN, and ITALIAN. The IAPYGIANS were the first to settle in Italy. They probably came from the north, and were pushed south by later immigrations, until they were crowded into the southeastern corner ...
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... ‘Avoid an unfamiliar word’, he used to say, ‘as a sailor avoids the rocks’ (Aulus Gellius Noctes Atticae 1.10.4). Of all his surviving work, which was apparently voluminous (DI 56), Caesar’s commentarii on his Gallic campaigns remain the best known and the most frequently referred to, and it is the ...
... ‘Avoid an unfamiliar word’, he used to say, ‘as a sailor avoids the rocks’ (Aulus Gellius Noctes Atticae 1.10.4). Of all his surviving work, which was apparently voluminous (DI 56), Caesar’s commentarii on his Gallic campaigns remain the best known and the most frequently referred to, and it is the ...
A General`s Self-Depiction: The Political
... beyond the limits of the Romans’ world.”14 Even though Britain was spectacularly far from Rome (both geographically and in the Roman imagination), it is only roughly twenty-five miles from Gaul and many of the Gallic tribes had received British auxiliaries in previous engagements against Caesar; tha ...
... beyond the limits of the Romans’ world.”14 Even though Britain was spectacularly far from Rome (both geographically and in the Roman imagination), it is only roughly twenty-five miles from Gaul and many of the Gallic tribes had received British auxiliaries in previous engagements against Caesar; tha ...
Was Caesar a man of the people or a power
... “that nothing should be done or passed…that displeased any of them three.” The alliance became known as “The Triumvirate,” which meant a ruling group of three. 60 BC – Caesar and a man named Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus are elected as the consuls for the year. During his first session as consul, Caesar ...
... “that nothing should be done or passed…that displeased any of them three.” The alliance became known as “The Triumvirate,” which meant a ruling group of three. 60 BC – Caesar and a man named Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus are elected as the consuls for the year. During his first session as consul, Caesar ...
History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD
... difficulties is through the Julian Alps on the east. It was over this pass that the Barbarians swept down in their invasions of the country. The Apennines, which are a continuation of the Alps, extend through the whole of the peninsula. Starting in the Maritime Alps, they extend easterly towards th ...
... difficulties is through the Julian Alps on the east. It was over this pass that the Barbarians swept down in their invasions of the country. The Apennines, which are a continuation of the Alps, extend through the whole of the peninsula. Starting in the Maritime Alps, they extend easterly towards th ...
Cicero: Selected Letters
... republican loyalists and disgruntled place-seekers, had not planned ahead, and the Consul Mark Antony, who in Cicero’s opinion ought to have been eliminated along with his colleagu Caesar, soon made it evident that he intended to take Caesar’s place. The ‘liberators’ were driven out of Rome by mob v ...
... republican loyalists and disgruntled place-seekers, had not planned ahead, and the Consul Mark Antony, who in Cicero’s opinion ought to have been eliminated along with his colleagu Caesar, soon made it evident that he intended to take Caesar’s place. The ‘liberators’ were driven out of Rome by mob v ...