... equestrians. After Gaius lost the election of 121 BCE, the Senate had him killed and some 3,000 of his followers put to death without trial. Marius became consul in 107 BCE. He was a capable general and reinvented the Roman army using mostly volunteers of dispossessed farmers. These volunteers became ... professional soldiers, counting on their general for food, clothing, and shelter and expecting a bonus, usually of land, upon retirement. The general then had to obtain the means to pay his soldiers from the Senate. This created ... lasted until the death of Crassus followed by the death...

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In a classical sense, historians have classified the downfall of the Roman republic as being during the period 133-14AD or from the Grachii to Octavian. from the dissident rumblings from the trubunician Tiberius to the ... from republic to monarchy was in full swing. However, ancient historian Gustaf Ferguson has brought new evidence to refute these accepted truths. Throughout the imperial period, the senate was given varying degrees of power depending on the whim of the ruling emperor. In Nero's time it has limited duties but in Tiberius' time it had ... to take an active role in the govering...

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... 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 and present laws to the Comitia Centuriata. They ... fighting the Parthians at Carrhe in 53 BCE. In 49 BCE, Pompey was killed, along with his army, trying to defend the senatorial government from the betrayal of Julius. The Senate wanted Julius to ...

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... popularity because of this and because he sided with those seeking power outside the circle of nobles, who at that time dominated the Roman senate. He also gained popularity with the Gauls in 68 BC by supporting them for Roman citizenship. Caesar became the governor of Spain in 61 BC after Crassus had helped pay his creditors after some financial issues. Military actions ... BC. Caesar introduced many reforms, such as limiting the distribution of free grain, founding citizen colonies, introducing the Julian calendar, and enlarging the senate. At the same time he reduced debts, changed t...

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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 Caesar ... expectation, To see the great Pompey pass the streets of Rome. (1.1) The Roman civil war on which Shakespeare bases much of Julius Caesar began after the death of Crassus. Only Caesar and Pompey remained, and the senate feared that a war would arise between the two and Rome would soon become ......

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... was the conquering of Gaul. Some of his other achievements include, lower class politician, introduced laws against extortion, publication of the proceedings of the Senate, and reorganization of the taxes. During the Social War his Uncle Marius massacred all of his enemies, had himself elected consul, and then dies ... was pardoned and he remarried Pompei, who was the granddaughter of Sulla. In 68BC Caesar was elected questor and obtained a seat in the Senate. Caesar supported Pompey and helped him against the Mediterranean pirates, later ended up in command of the war against King Mithr...

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... in Rome. The poor would once again have land and a small amount of redistributed wealth making them eligible for taxation and military service. The senate did not approve and fought hard to execute Tiberius laws. 2.) The Eastern Triumph of Pompey the Great a) What are Pompey's main accomplishments while campaigning ... you a better understanding of how the ambitions of prominent men could lead to conflict and ultimately civil war Pompey was a military leader of the Roman Republic known as Pompey the great. In 66 B.C.E. he traveled and visited various cities in the East. He was nominated...

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... brave man. He showed in many different situations, even before he started a political career. When Consul Sulla, in 82 B.C., returned to Rome and made a Senate declare him dictator for life, Julius Caesar was in his early 20s. Sulla demanded that Caesar divorce his wife, who was a daughter of Sulla's enemy ("Julius ... this. Caesar was smart to understand that if he gets the army in his hands, he has great power. So, in 59 B.C. he asked senate to give him army in order to quell the rebellion in Gaul. Pompey, who married Caesar's daughter, helped Caesar to get an army. Caesar took ... peop...

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... in Pompey's absence was becoming the recognized head of the popular party. His praise of Marius and Cinna made him popular with the people, but the senate didn't feel the same way. The thought he was getting to powerful and would become a threat to them. In 63 B.C. he was elected pontifex ... reputation with a victorious campaign against the Lusitanians. At 39 years old, he now was able to seek the Consulship, the highest and office in the Roman Republic. After many years of conquering lands he was named dictator for life in 44 B.C. Contributions Julius Caesar gave Rome many needed refo...

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... Aristotle studied (367-347 BC) under Plato at the Academy and there wrote many dialogues that were praised for their eloquence. 7. POMPEY- 106 BC-48 BC, Roman general, the rival of Julius Caesar . Sometimes called Pompey the Great, he was the son of Cnaeus Pompeius Strabo (consul in 89 BC), a commander of ... as his assigned proconsular province, but Decimus Brutus would not give it up, and Antony besieged him (43 BC) at Mutina (modern Modena). The senate, urged by Cicero , who had excoriated Antony in the Philippics, sent the consuls Aulus Hirtius and Caius Vibius Pansa to attack Antony....

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... he learned how to fight. At 15, he became interested in politics. He had a tough childhood, because he was epileptic and very vain. Caesar was admitted to the lifelong Senate after being a soldier for a number of years. The elite didn't accept him, so he turned to campaign for the poor. Caesar became the supreme priest, but he wanted ... to be higher in the Senate, so he joined together with two wealthy Romans, Crassus and Pompey. With these two as friends, he became consul. One year later, he became a governor of Roman territory. Caesar started many battles so he could say he had many t...

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... . He was the one person who brought about the effective end of the Republic. From a noble but poor Roman family, Caesar made was first a soldier. As a member of the First Triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus, he was one of the most powerful men ... in Rome. He fought a great Civil War with Pompey for mastery of Rome. After building up an army in Gaul, Caesar marched against the Senate in 49 B.C.E., and defeated his Pompey at the battle of Pharsalus. As dictator of Rome, he started a lot of political and social reforms On the Ides of ... March, 44 B.C., he was assassinated by a conspiracy...

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... forced into a life obedience and hatred. Spartacus was taken to a Gladiator school to become a slave. There he learned all the things that would make him become a great gladiator. The Roman life was really different from our lives today. The first thing is that we don't have people fighting to the death because that is breaking the law. In Rome they ... have family. In the movie Varenia was a symbol of Love. She was soon to be Spartacus" wife and the mother of his baby boy. Crassus was the leader of the Roman Army. He was afraid of Spartacus because he was afraid that Spartacus would k...

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... too much power and that if he became the king of Rome he would become corrupt and use his powers to create a bad society. The senate resented his actual position that was shown in the sixty member conspiracy which Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ides of March , ... two days before he was due to leave Rome on his great eastern expedition, he was stabbed to death at a meeting of the senate in Pompey's new theater. He fell dead at the foot of Pompey's statue. Pompey was avenged, as well as Bibulus and Cato. After a provocative funeral ... and "divus Julius," or divine Juliu...

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The greatest warrior and emperor of Rome, Gaius Julius Caesar, died today, March 15th BCE, at about 10:00 a.m. Roman time, in the portico of the "Pompey the Great" theater. He was stabbed twenty-three times by at least sixty conspirators lead by Marcus Junius Brutus. It is being reported ... was released. His action proved his skill of dealing with pirates. In 72 BCE he was elected to the "Military Tribune". He was elected quaestor and achieved a seat in the Senate. In 60 BCE, he headed the first triumvirate - a loose coalition with Spain, Pompey and Crassus. With the help of them, he becam...

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