HISTORY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Calends, Sextus Pompey, Saint Perpetuus
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Most want to be the biggest and best man ever. They are willing to break all rules and traditions to do this. C. julius caesar: gens julii (clan, almost day-to day accounts of what happened, and very detailed. A very old family line, popularis (related to marius, cornelia) He bribed his way into this position, and went into dept. Clementaia: being able to forgive political enemies. In 61 became the governer of further spain. o o o. Got military experience and stole a lot of property and 9086. In 60 he comes home and wants a triumph. He should probably get one, but he also wants to be a consul. Caesar wants all the rules bent or broken for him, since he cannot naturally be a consul: pompey had also been blocked by the optimates, like to setlle veterans, and ratify eastern, crassus settlements. The first triumvirate : the joining of caesar, pompey and crassus, caesar becomes consul.