CLA2104 Lecture 5: Consulships of Pompey and Crassus & Assendancy of Julius Caesar
25 Jan 2018
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70 bc consulships of pompey and crassus: an. In 70 bc an uneasy, mutually advantageous alliance emerged between pompey and. Pompey and crassus hated each other but decided to ditch the sullan optimates and run for the consulship together. They became anti-senatorial, populares, and defenders of the equestrians (both had started out with sulla) They demanded illegal consulships and they got them. They also resumed the process of repealing all of sulla"s reforms: completing what lepidus had started 3 years earlier. Trial of verres and lex aurella 70 bc. The bill of pompey and crassus was rati ed as the lex aurelia because of trial. In same year a scandal rocked rome and e ectively put the senate (rather than the equestrians who were always under scrutiny) on trial for corruption: this narrative has been revised by gruen. The prosecutor was cicero who made verres" trial notorious because he convicted him in the courts.
