... . The election cost him more than the previous one for quaestor. Part of his job was to amuse the people of Rome. Caesar outdid anyone in history by hiring no fewer than 640 gladiators for just one performance and he armored them in silver. His debts grew even larger but he never kept accounts ... disposal. If he did not get this governorship he would have been ruined, at that time he owed 3,250,000 dollars, the largest sum in Rome's history. They tried to keep him from going to Spain but once again Crassus and some other rich men bailed him out. As governor of Spain he sold ... would be ...

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... who exhibit them, and telling his story with a great emphasis on Republicanism. Second, he clearly projects the events of his own time onto his history simply because that is what he understands best. Furthermore, Ab Urbe Condita is rife with retrojection because Livy's mindset was firmly entrenched in the Roman ... , as well as general themes of the time show up variously in Livy's books (especially 2 and 3), and shape the way Livy presents his history. The recurring topic of Livy's second and third books is the Conflict of Orders. This was the series of political wars between the patri...

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... BCE, he was the son to Gaius Caesar and Aurelia the Governor of Gal while having very closely connection with the Marian faction in Roman politics (History, 2014). With Caesar being born straight in to Roman politics he was bound to get involved and be a part of the Roman political future. During ... in Roman politics, he reshaped Rome in many ways, doing things past rulers could dream of accomplishing. Caesar is one of the more questionable rulers in history, many debate if he was a Hero or Reformer to Roman society or a Tyrant whom was only looking to conquer the world for himself. Jul...

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... world. The play, Antony and Cleopatra was written in 1606 named as tragedy though it has the element of comedy as well as history. Shakespeare has based his play on Plutarch's 3narrative of Roman characters .A.C.Bradley does not consider it the real tragedy because he thinks that ... strongly.....' Shakespeare's world ,in this play, stretches from Alexandria to Rome, encompasses Messina, Athens, Actium4 and Syria. Roman civilization has long history and it was derivative of Greek culture. Greek culture was scientific and pragmatics and thus Romans had inherited these characteristics from...

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... capital of Egypt at that time. Cleopatra was the third of six children born to King Ptolemy XII, nicknamed Auletes ("The Flute Player"), and as history states, her mother Cleopatra V Tryphaena who may have been her father's sister, which was common practice for siblings of the Ptolemaic dynasty to marry one ... dancer and horsewomen. Cleopatra was wise beyond her years, and unfortunately she had to have realized how dangerous life could be for the Ptolmey dynasty ad a history of getting rid of each other to reach the throne. So she had to be very cautious. As a princess Cleopatra lacked ...

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