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		Antony, Octavian, Cleopatra ^Votes:0 Antony, Octavian, Cleopatra: The End of the Republic March 17, 44 BCE: The Senate, unable to take a consistent stand after Caesar's assassination, decreed that the assassins were to be immune from punishment but that Caesar's acts as head of state, including his will, were to be ratified, and he was to have a public funeral. At the funeral (March 20), Brutus spoke first; however, when Antony spoke, reading the conditions of Caesar's will (leaving 300,000 sesterces to each Roman citizen and his magnificent gardens to the people as a public park), the mob was so inflamed that Caesar's body was burned then and there in the Forum and riots began against the conspirators. Within a month, the conspirators had left the city for the East because of their unpopularity in Rome. Led by Brutus and Cas Read More Go to Site


		Arachnion, n. 2.1, May 1996 - Simpson: Two Small Thoughts on Cilnius Maecenas ^Votes:0 Go to Arachnion nr. 4 - contents or to Arachnion - home page Arachnion n. 2.1, May 1996 Two Small Thoughts on 'Cilnius Maecenas' [*] di CHRIS J. SIMPSON (Wilfrid Laurier/McMaster Universities, Canada) My first thought: although apparently overlooked by White, it is well-known that in a letter Augustus addressed his friend Maecenas as Cilniorum smaragde [1] . Cilnius is also the nomen given by Tacitus ( Ann . VI, 11, 3) Cilnium Maecenatem equestris ordinis [2] . A long-standing and convincing argument, however, has been made against Cilnius as patronym. No freedman of the literary patron carried the name on his gravestone but Maecenas as nomen appears for example in the name of C. Maecenas Melissus, librarian in the Porticus Octaviae [3] . According to Schulz, Etruscan family names terminat Read More Go to Site

		Augustus ^Votes:0 ? ? ? Steve Juanico Dr. Martin Pine ACE Social Science Seminar 015 19 December 1997 ??????????????????????? The reforms of Augustus solved the major problems ??????????????????????? of the late Roman Republic.? Show fully how 4 major ??????????????????????? reforms of Augustus? solved the problems of the late ??????????????????????? Roman Republic. ??????? Two of the most destructive problems facing the late Roman Republic were the instability and disunity caused by incessant civil wars.? Rome's rapid expansion, after the Punic Wars, resulted in socioeconomic changes that permanently divided the state.? Both aristocratic and plebeian parties sought total control of Rome and tried to destroy each other.? Civil war was the continuation of party politics by other means.? Consequently, the pow Read More Go to Site

		Augustus and Tiberius ^Votes:0 AUGUSTUS AND TIBERIUS: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND busts of Augustus, Livia and other family members found in Crete (Heraklion Museum) 63 BCE: Gaius Octavius Thurinus was born to Atia, niece of Julius Caesar, who adopted the young man posthumously in his will after his assassination in 44 BCE (click here for a genealogy that is fairly easy to interpret). Known now as Octavian (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus), he engaged with Mark Antony in a long struggle for the ultimate power in the Roman world, finally vanquishing the forces of Antony and Cleopatra in the naval battle of Actium in 31 BCE. 38 BCE: Octavian divorced Scribonia (an older woman whom he had married because of her family ties to Sextus Pompey at a time when he needed Pompey's political support) on the very day, it is said, that she Read More Go to Site

		AUGUSTUS: IMAGES OF POWER ^Votes:0 AUGUSTUS: IMAGES OF POWER Mark Morford, Classics Department, University of Virginia To view larger images, click on the small images at the head of each section. Part 1: The Mausoleum (1-7) 1. The Campus Martius was a large low-lying area north of the Capitolium, lying outside the pomerium . Here the Roman people met under arms and practiced military training. Towards the end of the Republic the southern part became built up, and Augustus and his assistant, Agrippa, added many buildings and complexes for the use and benefit of the People. These included the Pantheon (rebuilt more than a century later by Hadrian) and the public Baths of Agrippa. The Mausoleum of Augustus, the Ustrinum (crematorium), and the Ara Pacis (Altar of Peace) were built in the northern part, beside the main road to Read More Go to Site

		Caligula ^Votes:0 CALIGULA: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND March, 37 CE: At about 25 years old, Caligula was named Rome's third emperor, the first direct descendant of Augustus to take the throne (click here for a coin on which Caligula emphasizes this relationship). The reign began with good feelings all around, since Caligula declared an amnesty for all Romans imprisoned or exiled under Tiberius, posthumously restored honor to his mother and brothers, and stopped the treason trials, getting rid of the informers in the process. One month after his accession, his grandmother, Antonia, died. October, 37 CE: Caligula fell seriously ill, with what was described at the time as a brain fever; there was great mourning in Rome, and much joy at his recovery. There were a number of freedmen in his close circle wh Read More Go to Site

		Cicero [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] ^Votes:0 Cicero (c. 106-43 B.C.) Marcus Tullius Cicero was born on January 3, 106 BC and was murdered on December 7, 43 BC. His life coincided with the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, and he was an important actor in many of the significant political events of his time (and his writings are now a valuable source of information to us about those events). He was, among other things, an orator, lawyer, politician, and philosopher. Making sense of his writings and understanding his philosophy requires us to keep that in mind. He placed politics above philosophical study; the latter was valuable in its own right but was even more valuable as the means to more effective political action. The only periods of his life in which he wrote philosophical works were the times he was forcibly prevented fr Read More Go to Site

		EyeWitness to History ^Votes:0 EyeWitness has a new location: eyewitnesstohistory.com You will transferred to our new site in a few seconds. Please bookmark the new location for future reference! Read More Go to Site

		EyeWitness to History ^Votes:0 EyeWitness has a new location: eyewitnesstohistory.com You will transferred to our new site in a few seconds. Please bookmark the new location for future reference! Read More Go to Site

		Julius Caesar: Historical Background ^Votes:0 JULIUS CAESAR: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 102/100 BCE: Gaius Julius Caesar was born (by Caesarean section according to an unlikely legend) of Aurelia and Gaius Julius Caesar, a praetor. His family had noble, patrician roots, although they were neither rich nor influential in this period. His aunt Julia was the wife of Gaius Marius, leader of the Popular faction. c. 85 BCE: His father died, and a few years later he was betrothed and possibly married to a wealthy young woman, Cossutia. This betrothal/marriage was soon broken off, and at age 18 he married Cornelia, the daughter of a prominent member of the Popular faction; she later bore him his only legitimate child, a daughter, Julia. When the Optimate dictator, Sulla, was in power, he ordered Caesar to divorce her; when Caesar refused, Sulla pr Read More Go to Site

		Lucretius [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] ^Votes:0 Lucretius (c. 99 - c. 55 BCE) Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus) was a Roman poet and the author of the philosophical epic De Rerum Natura ( On the Nature of the Universe ), a comprehensive exposition of the Epicurean world-view. Very little is known of the poet?s life, though a sense of his character and personality emerges vividly from his poem. The stress and tumult of his times stands in the background of his work and partly explains his personal attraction and commitment to Epicureanism, with its elevation of intellectual pleasure and tranquility of mind and its dim view of the world of social strife and political violence. His epic is presented in six books and undertakes a full and completely naturalistic explanation of the physical origin, structure, and destiny of the universe. Inc Read More Go to Site

		Roman Emperors - DIR Constantius I ^Votes:0 Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors DIR Atlas Constantius I Chlorus (305-306 A.D.) Michael DiMaio, Jr. Salve Regina University Constantius' Early Life and Marriage Born March 31st, Emperor Flavius Valerius Constantius may have come into the world ca. 250. His family was from Illyricum. In the army he served as a protector , tribunus , and a praeses Dalmatiarum . During the 270s or the 280s, he became the father of Constantine by Helena , his first spouse. By 288 he was the Praetorian Prefect of the western emperor Maximianus Herculius. [[1]] Constantius' Reign as Caesar On 1 March 293 Diocletian appointed Galerius as his Caesar (junior emperor) in the east and Constantius as the Caesar of Maximianus Herculius. Caesar in the west. Both Caesars had the rig Read More Go to Site

		RomanEmperors - DIR--De Imperatoribus Romanis Roman History Roman RomanEmpire Imperator Basileus De Imperatoribus Romanis EncyclopediaByzantine ^Votes:0 De Imperatoribus Romanis : An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and Their Families Habemus Praesidem Iuniorem Jaqueline Long Pull-down menus in frames: vertical click here ; horizontal click here ; full scrolling menu click here ;scroll down the page for non-frames access. Welcome to De Imperatoribus Romanis ("On the Rulers of Rome")! WHAT IS DIR ? DIR is an on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453). The encyclopedia consists of (1) an index of all the emperors who ruled during the empire's 1500 years, (2) a growing number of biographical essays on the individual emperors, (3) family trees ("stemmata") of important imperial dynasties, (4) an index of significant battles in the empire's history, (5) a growi Read More Go to Site

		RomanEmperors - DIR--De Imperatoribus Romanis Roman History Roman RomanEmpire Imperator Basileus De Imperatoribus Romanis EncyclopediaByzantine ^Votes:0 De Imperatoribus Romanis : An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and Their Families Habemus Praesidem Iuniorem Jaqueline Long Pull-down menus in frames: vertical click here ; horizontal click here ; full scrolling menu click here ;scroll down the page for non-frames access. Welcome to De Imperatoribus Romanis ("On the Rulers of Rome")! WHAT IS DIR ? DIR is an on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453). The encyclopedia consists of (1) an index of all the emperors who ruled during the empire's 1500 years, (2) a growing number of biographical essays on the individual emperors, (3) family trees ("stemmata") of important imperial dynasties, (4) an index of significant battles in the empire's history, (5) a growi Read More Go to Site

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