After the death of Julius Caesar, the Roman Republic was in shambles. The Senate had little real power and men were fighting for the position Caesar held and the one Caesar aspired to. Octavian was the man who would emerge ... provinces. Augustus was looking like a humble ruler to the public, while in reality he was lining himself up for a long run as commander of the Roman Empire through conciliation of the Senate. One of the main points in Augustus" rule was giving the people a voice. He was not going to take the route of some of his ... Potestas now gave him legal control over the military...

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... a government with a king, who was imperium, "Over all persons and in all causes supreme" (Adcock 6). Romulus chose one hundred fathers to form the Senate. These people and their descendants are known as Patricians, from the Latin word pater, meaning father. He divided the people into three tribes, mentioned above, and ... to Janus, the Roman god of beginnings of wars. This showed that the world was at peace. In 28 BC, Octavian and Agrippa became consuls. After one year, they turned the state over to "the free decision of the Senate and People of Rome" (Adcock 74). The Senate and people ...

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... simply retire as the greatest Roman of his time and the first man in Rome . What he asked from the senate was nothing compared to the bounty he had presented to them, but the senate declined to accommodate him. The reasons behind this unreasonable attitude of the senate cannot be easily explained, ... he needed, alone he could not muster enough clout to overcome the opposition of Cato and Bibulus. At this time another powerful Roman had similar problems with the senate. Marcus Crassus had been championing the cause of the Publicani, the companies which collected Rome's taxes in the provi...

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... but as a leader of Rome many flaws were seen in him. Caesar had grown to think only of himself and had lost interest in the care of Roman citizens. His own senate had no faith in him, they saw him as a terrible leader and a weak person. In Act 2 Scene II Cassius had saved Caesars life many ... also turned down the crown offered to him, something a tyrant would never do. He made most citizens happy, he did everything he could for them but the senate despised him for the power he had taken from them, resented what he was becoming growing more jealous as the days went on. Julius Caesar's mi...

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... he returned to Rome Marius found another chance for fame. Nomadic German tribes had invaded the north of Italy and winning a couple battles over Roman armies. Marius took the spotlight away from this little bundle of joy named Caesar. No matter what he wanted he was propelled into politics. ... from fits of epilepsy. He was rather tall for a man from his time, he grew to be about five feet eight inches tall. In Roman tradition the fathers arranged their children's' marriages at an early age. Caesar's father arranged his marriage with a young woman named Cossutia. Caesar hated this ... ...

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... Optimates nor the Populares. Instead, he supports Augustus. This is why Livy supports the senate and the patricians, but still gives accounts of plebeian and tribunal victories. Overall, anything that is classically "Roman" is supported by Livy, and ideas that are countercultural are looked upon with unwelcome ... , it can be seen that Livy introduces a very similar scenario. Cassius tries to placate the plebs and gain power, but is opposed by the senate. The difference is that Livy has Cassius tried in court, as was the law, while Gracchus is murdered in the streets, effectively destroy...

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... the first kings on his mother's side and form the gods on his father's. Thereafter, Caesar was elected quaestor and obtained a seat in the Senate; he married Pompeia, a granddaughter of Sulla. Caesar supported Pompey and helped him get an extraordinary generalship against the Mediterranean pirates, later extended to ... really feared the advancing Romans, Most of the oppida, Gallic fortified town or stronghold, such as Cenabum, the main oppidum of Carnutes, had Roman traders who now lived there. The Romans didn't use violence to take over, they just sent in the traders who settled and ma...

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... rumors that Cesar wanted to be sole king, conspirators (including Brutus who is arguable Caesar's natural son) 'struck Caesar down at the foot of Pompey's statute during a session at the senate'(Plutarch). In the aftermath of Caesar's assignation, Cleopatra widely withdrew from Rome and "During the next three years, Cleopatra, now in her twenties devoted her self to the government and ... maintained, already gained through her relationship with Caesar. The meeting that took place at Tarsus in 41BC had sparked legends 'greatest love story' between the Egyptian queen Cleopatra and the roma...

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... were unhappy with his job and praise he was receiving since it was all a joint effort. An oracle warned Julius Caesar not to go to the senate on the Ides of March because there were fears of his death. Brushing concerns from the oracle and his wife who had nightmares during the night, ... friends. His murderers turn out to be his closest friends from the man he virtually called his son Brutus to on of the lowest men in his senate Cinna. His death causes war to break out between the democrats and the republicans. Many influential people were killed. Shakespeare's political thriller is a p...

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... 's happiness was short lived yet again when Caesar was assassinated. He was stabbed to death by Marcus Brutus and Lucuis Cassius when he entered the Senate. Not only did Cleopatra lose her child's father, she lost her lover and protector, and with him went her hopes and dreams. Cleopatra was ... Mark Antony, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, which was known as the Second Triumvirate. They all decided to now avenge Caesar's death. They now divided the Roman world between themselves. Octavian took Rome and the Western provinces, Lepidus north Africa, and Antony, Rome's eastern client sates. Mark...

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