CLA2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gaius Gracchus, Equites, Mithridates Vi Of Pontus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA2104
• Professor: Antonia Holden

Document Summary

Caesar formed an alliance with crassus due to money trouble. The first triumvirate was a formal alliance between caesar, crassus and pompey in. 60 bc when none of them were getting what they wanted from the senate so they pooled their resources and basically dictated to the senate. Same year when caesar was consul and he wasn"t given a good province in which to recruit troops. The equestrians have become like a political block. Caesar served on the sta of the governor of asia where he was mandated to solicit military support from nicomedes of bithynia, to wage war against mytilene (in late. Also served on sta of governor of cilicia. After the death of sulla (78 bc), caesar returned to rome and practiced law: he unsuccessfully prosecuted dolabella (old sullan) on conspiracy charges in 78. Bc: 76 bc this political setback changed plans and sailed to greece to study rhetoric and do business.