Triumvirate

start his political career and obtain popularity by reversing Sulla’s ruling of Rome and becoming the advisor for Rome by approximately 69B.C. Caesar was able to climb the political ladder by making the secret alliance, also known as the First Triumvirate, with Pompey and Crassus. In 59B.C, by sealing their deal with the marriage of Pompey and Caesar’s daughter, Caesar was elected consul for Rome the next year. This rise of power allowed Caesar to achieve one of his greatest accomplishments, the…

Julius Caesar was an ambitious dictator who lived from 100 B.C.E. - 44 B.C.E. Throughout his life, he held many titles, from being a soldier to a politician, although eventually he became the dictator perpetuum. The Julian calendar was his most memorable legacy, which he invented. His brutal murder on the Ides of March signaled the end of his powerful rule in Rome. Julius Caesar was born on July 13th 100 B.C.E. His religion was Roman Polytheism, and he was sided with the political…

Marcus Antonius and his 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 senate, and found Crassus, who was the richest person of Rome, and Pompey, who held tremendous military power to form the first triumvirate, which then consist huge amount of power, money and military and became the absolute power of Rome. In this extent, the senate lost much of its power and became unable to compete with the absolute power of the triumvirate. Caesar could just take his proposal of the land distribution law to the Tribal Assembly without the approval of the senate and…

The Roman Empire began when Augustus Caesar became the first emperor with 2 triumvirates: Pompey and Crassus. This civilization was balanced. Rome had three types of government including monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. All of these governments united in Rome. The Roman Empire also had senates. A senate is a body of legislators chosen from a group of elite families. The main job was to set the policy for the consuls. Rome was divided into 2 broad classes: Patricians and Plebeians.…

satire, they were not interpreted that way. Instead, Chaucer established the blood libel and anti-semitism as literary norms in English literature, followed by Shakespeare and Dickens who solidify these ideas and bring together the English literary triumvirate. Whether or not the “Prioress’s Tale” is a satire is irrelevant, Julius argues, because the effect on English literature is irreversible. Anti-semitism is from then on the raw material, the precedent for all English work to come. The idea…

“When everything seemed lost, the heirs of the house of Ptolemy would suddenly have almost put within their grasp a dominion stretching not only over the lost ancestral lands, but over wider territories than Ptolemy I or Ptolemy II or Ptolemy III had ever dreamed of. Those kings, being men, had based their dominion on the power of their arms; but now, when the military power of Egypt would bring to the contest power of a wholly different kind-the power of a fascinating woman.” E.R. Bevan, The…

Brutus the Tragic Hero Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar has a plethora of diverse characters. However only one of them fits the role in in the play as a tragic hero, that character is Marcus Brutus. Brutus is crucial character that faces moral the moral decision to turn on his dear friend, Julius Caesar. Marcus Brutus, the tragic hero of this play, has the qualities of a traditional tragic hero. One of those qualities being noble birth, Brutus’ ancestor, Lucius Junius Brutus…

the opinions for the rest of the meeting. He always knew how to set himself up to succeed in life. Finding a way to gain more power, Caesar convinces enemies Crassus and Pompey to be his allies. This well-planned act made them known as the first triumvirate and the rulers over Rome. When in battle against Pompey, Caesar tried to bribe Pompey’s soldiers by offering them land. He also hired a group of his enemy 's soldiers to act out a riot so that Caesar could get what he wanted (“Julius Caesar…

From the beginning of Rome as an established nation, the struggle between the Patricians and Plebeians was present. What is clear as the Republic continues in growth and complexity, is a well-defined progression of popular representation within the government. The Struggle of the Orders represents a point in which democracy seems to begin to limit the power of the senate. In 494 B.C.E. when the Plebeians threatened to secede from Rome and establish their own state, the Senate was forced to…