CLA2104 Lecture 1: The Early Empire 1 - Jan 25/16 - Jan 27/16
28 May 2017
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Module 1: the rise of pompey: the career of pompey, leading to his political alliance with crassus, the decades of the 70"s and 60"s, tumultuous years with wars on all fronts, ascendancy caesar, cicero"s role in these years. The model of conflict between populares and optimates/ senate: gracchi- had privileged the people"s assembly over all else, marius- had privileged the consul and the army over all else, sulla - had privileged the senate over all else. These men defined the optimates and the populares and set a precedent of civil war. Now the model is more complex (and/or perhaps better documented: personal alliances became more influential, optimates and populares loyalties became harder to discern, this becomes apparent in pompey"s early career. Pompey the great, 106-48 bce: sources: appian civil wars, plutarch: biographies of: 83 to support sulla: as a private citizen, he demanded a triumph at the age of 23, which. Event that launched pompey"s rise to power.
