... as a way to guide their thoughts and actions. These values would help make the Roman republic be a successful and happy place to live. Rome's extensive expansion all started with the thought that the gods wanted them to dominate the world through military use as well as law. The Roman people were also expected to enhance the world through their social and moral values ... knowledge as well determination. It also taught that hard work is essential to be successful. The downfall of the Roman republic began when the social elite revolted and over-threw the Kings. After this it was a period...

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... because his son, Sextus, raped a virtuous woman named Lucretia who subsequently committed suicide. This ended the Etruscan Monarch period and made way for the Roman Republic. The two Consuls that were elected were the chief magistrates of the Roman State. The Comitia Centuriata (Assembly of Centuries) elected the two Consuls from the already existing Senate. The role of the Consuls was to create ... ...

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... as Sulla was born in 138 B.C. in Puteoli, a city near present-day Naples. He was born into a patrician family (this title was given to a wealthy upper class citizen of the Roman Republic). Sulla aspired to become a politician, and he began his political career in 107 B.C. under the command of King Gauis Marius. Sulla was in the shadows of the ... , but was a brilliant military leader. He will be forever remembered as one of the greatest Roman military dictators. He contributed notable reforms that strengthened the Roman Republic. Sulla played a vital historical role in shaping and reform...

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... were all based around minor historical figures. This is not the case with Julius Caesar. The story of Caesar and his dramatic rise through Roman history is well known, which has further endeared both Elizabethan and modern audiences to this play. As his chief source in writing Julius ... They were overthrown in 510BC by Lucius Brutus, an ancestor of Marcus Brutus, who appears as a significant character in the play. A democratic republic was soon formed which lasted for five hundred years. It should be noted that the Romans were fiercely proud of their democratic traditions. Around 60BC ...

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... Mithridates in 86 BC. Soon after both Cinna and Marius died. It left their party leaderless and could not stop Sulla from taking control of the republic. When Sulla took control he forced Caesar to divorce Cornelia as a test of loyalty. He refused to divorce the love of his life. He ... a civil war would be a sure bet but the events may lead him to being a dictator. What he was going to do would destroy the Roman republic. If he did not do it his career and life would be doomed. The Rubicon river was the southern boundary line of his control. If he ... served four terms as consul and w...

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... homo" which means New Man, because he was not Roman by birth, and did not have family in politics. Lady Fortune was on his side. He had money, married into a noble family, and obtained the highest political office in the Roman republic seven times. This accomplishment was almost impossible for anyone ... not born of Roman blood. He was a "vir militaris", a Military man, and a brilliant general that knew how to command armies. ... He treated his soldiers like people and was very concerned about their welfare and benefits. His concerns were for the common people of Rome and for nationals ...

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... danger and trouble for Julius Caesar. At this point in his life things were not going so well for him. While working on his education he married one of Roman's most important Professors daughter Cornelia who later gave birth to his only legitimate child, Julia. Soon after his marriage to Cornelia a new dictator was appointed by the ... rich man but he knew he had committed criminal acts in this war so he had to obtain office. He was later elected in the highest office of the Roman Republic as Consul of Rome. Most of his acts as consul were illegal but his opponents were afraid of him so ...

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... and dictator during the last century of the Roman Republic. Lucius was born into an impoverished branch of the Cornelii, and he lived a poor and dissolute existence until he received two family ... to establish a personal autocracy at Rome. He used his power to re-establish the supremacy of Senate in the Roman state and to carry out other reforms. His first major break into the Roman political ladder was to serve as quaestor for the famous general, Gaius Marius, who was leading Rome's armies against ... the height of his career he assumed the name Felix. He served under Marius in Afri...

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