ANCH1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pharsalia, Populares, Second Triumvirate
Document Summary
The first triumvirate: unofficial and initially secret. Triumvirate: three men in charge; so-called after the second (official) board. Caesar: the consulship: pompey marries julia (caesar"s daughter) in 59, cicero invited to join; refuses after agonising over it. "its results were to bring ruin to the city, the world, and even at different times, to each of the three men" (vellius) Election: cato obstructs caesar from standing absentee for election. Week 10 lecture: bibulus omen-watches for the rest of his tenure, because the two weren"t governing together, everything caesar did was technically illegal, caesar ignores the senate, taking all measures to the people. Laws for the regulation of governors" conduct- procedures for changes of misgovernment, harsh penalties. Caesar acquires gaul and illyricum as provinces, with four legions for five years (instead of. Therefore he has imperium and can"t be prosecuted for his illegal activities: consuls for 58: a. gabinius (pompey"s friend) and l. capernius (caesar"s father in law)
