... home he reconstituted the courts and increased the number of senators. His reforms of the calendar gave Rome a rational; means of recording time A number of senatorial families, however, felt that Caesar threatened their position, and his honors and powers made them fear that he would become a rex (king), a title they, as Republicans, hated. Accordingly, in 44bc, an assassination plot ... him. After Caesar's first wife, Cornelia, died in 68bc, he married Pompeia, a granddaughter of Sulla. When the mysteries of the Boan Dea, over which she presided, were violated, she was maligned by goss...

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... task of revising the Roman constitution. The need in the latter sphere was a solution which would introduce such elements of authoritarianism as were necessary to check corruption and administrative weakness. Caesar's first dictatorship was simply a commission to enable him to hold elections in the absence of the consuls of the year who were with Pompey, but after the news of Pharsalus ... "master of the horse". This representative was Mark Antony. Much resentment was felt by prominent senators like Cicero on account of the great power and influence of such against of Caesar. Caesar's mi...

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