CLA233H1 Lecture : lecture
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Last section of the life of amelius paulus, the treasury was flushed and the. They don"t have to pay taxes because they have an empire. He will write the life of a greek and a roman and compare them. The opening of the life s very long and complex. The life of demetrius is compared to the life of antony. You compare and pick the good and avoid the bad (how medicine works) The helots (lower class; other race of spartans) He sees the parallel lives as a question of the virtuous man . The force of the original proposition is that you learn this from these lives that you can use in your own life. You read the life of caesar so that you can be a great man for example. Defeats antonius at actium in 31 bce; he now has no rivals for power. Receives the title augustus in 27 bce and imperium for 10 years.
