CLST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gallic Wars, Sallust, Augustus
30 Mar 2017
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Format for exam will be the same. Leap year: julius caesar and augustus thought they were so important that they"d need a month named after themselves (july and august, also lled religious roles, reform of the calendar. Calendar, before 46 bc, wasn"t working well and they were adding a whole month in every few years. Marcus junius brutus: wanted to be a hellenistic style king, ancestor, 509 bc, had kicked out the last of the roman kings, the liberators. Shakespeare, julius caesar"s death: procession of the dead. Family of the dead, people dressed to look like the ancestors (wax masks) Body had been decorated to show all of the wounds he had received from the stabbings from senators: playing up on his violent death. Get to the forum and mark antony is among the speakers: mark had been a client of caesar"s and had started off as a junior of cer.
