King of Rome

Rome was a massive empire. When the Empire finally started to decline, it was a big upset to the people living there and around it. There were many causes to the fall of the Roman Empire. I believe that the Roman Empire became so large the borders became difficult to control, the constant competing of the Roman generals for power, and the fact that Christianity lead to people not fighting in battle, which lead to Rome having to rely on foreign soldiers, this all lead to the fall of the Empire.…

prevent Rome from falling into the hands of a dictator who would ruin Rome from the inside out, Brutus himself ironically acts like a totalitarian, tyrannical, despot. Even though Brutus meets up with the other patricians planning to kill Caesar because of his threat as a king, Brutus ironically acts like a king when he overrides the other’s ideas to enforce his own logic. When Cassius confronts him in the second scene, Brutus first reveals his concern for Julius becoming the tyrant of Rome and…

Monarchy was the earliest form of government for the Roman city-state. Their Kings governed in consultation with an assembly made of the most prominent and wealthiest families of Rome called the patricians and formed a privileged social group called the plebians (citizens that was allowed to vote). After the death of each King, the patrician assembly would choose his successor. Later after the Etruscan King was overthrown, the Romans founded the Roman Republic. The republic differ from the…

Actions against Rome Following Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44 B.C.E., Mark Antony assumed his position of authority in the state of Rome. However, in the same year Gaius Octavius, the chosen heir and grandnephew of Caesar, complicated Antony’s plan to obtain and hold the power in Rome. Gaius Octavius, or Octavian, came to Rome after hearing the news of Caesar’s death, as he was left an inheritance from Caesar and came to receive it. Competition with Antony for the rule of Rome, caused…

because he was a negative influence by splitting Rome for a time, his death led to the empire’s further wealth and expanse with the reign of Caesar Augustus, and he was a power hungry ruler. Julius Caesar’s influence had a very negative effect on Rome. One example of this is Caesar leading Rome to a split that caused a civil war to break out. In the book A Wicked History: Julius Caesar-Dictator For Life: Imperious it says, “Caesar plunges Rome into a Civil war (Rinaldo 85). Even though…

A Eulogy is a formal speech in praise of the dead. In ancient Rome the Eulogy at the funeral was practised only by men, but an elite woman was occasionally allowed to deliver a Eulogy at a funeral. This reflected how society was back in ancient Rome, the ancient Roman society was very male dominating and women didn’t have equality and as much freedom as what the men did. Because funerals for the elite were…

Washington, DC VS. Rome Have you ever visited the cities of Rome or Washington, DC? Even though Washington, DC, and Rome are major capital cities of their countries in the world, they have many differences along with their similarities. They have vastly different histories, cultural aspects, and racial demographics, but they remain similar in their cost of living and socioeconomic disparity. First, Washington, Dc and Rome are rich in world and national history. The history in the two cities…

Roman Government and United States Government The Republican government of Ancient Rome can be said to be the prototype of the U.S. Constitutional government with emphasis on the word constitution. The United States government is a primarily constitutional government since the constitution drafted by the Founding Fathers has been the most important document since the founding of the country’s government system up to the present (Brice, 2015 p. 1). There are those who contend that the framework…

future of Rome. In this paper I will discuss how Augustan writers, Virgil and Ovid, utilized animal anthropomorphism as means of political expression in order to criticize Rome’s broken and divided state. Furthermore, I will discuss the use of anthropomorphism in Pliny the Elder’s The Natural History, who was writing years after the Roman Empire had been established. Although far removed from the turmoil, Pliny lived with the consequences of these…

was a queen for quite a long time, it was not a simple task for her; she had to go through various issues before she finally became ruler of Egypt. Cleopatra was born in Alexandria, Egypt around 69 BCE. In 51 BCE, her father, King Ptolemy XII, died after his long reign as king. 18-year-old Cleopatra and her 10-year-old brother, Ptolemy XIII, were married off and became the new rulers of Egypt, but they faced difficulties with each other afterwards for the next few years. In 49 BCE, Cleopatra…