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Gaius Julius Caesar East And West
2,175 words... senators and collected taxes, and twenty five quae stores, or financial officers. In 450 BC, the Plebs demanded that the laws of Rome be written down so that the praetors couldn't twist the law in their favor. They were written down on the Twelve Tables. An example of a law from the Twelve Tables was, "If plaintiff summons defendant to court, he shall go. If he does not go, plaintiff shall call witness [to this]. Then only shall he take the defendant [to court] by force. " (Nardo 28 - 29) Th...
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Gaius Julius Caesar Ides Of March
1,668 wordsGaius Julius Caesar was born on July 13, 100 BC. Although patrician descent, Caesar's family had not achieved real prominence. His father, also named Gaius Julius Caesar, was the brother-in-law of Gaius Marius and married Aurelia, who was connected with the prominent Aurelii family; he died about 85 BC, however, before reaching the consulship. In 84, Caesar married Cornelia, daughter of Marius's old partner Lucius Cornelius China. When Lucius Cornelius Sulla ordered him to divorce her, he refuse...
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596 wordsPompey the Great was a Roman general and statesman, the ally and son-in-law of Julius Caesar. Pompey and Julius Caesar will later become arch-rival for power. Pompey real name is Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus. Pompey was born in Rome on September 29, 106 bc, into a senatorial family; his father was Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, he was in the consul in 89 bc. When Pompey was just 17 he fought, along with his father, on the side of Lucius Cornelius Sulla against the army of Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Ch...
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Pierre De Coubertin Ancient Olympic Games
1,386 wordsIntroduction Today, the Olympic Games are the world's largest pageant of athletic skill and competitive spirit. They are also displays of nationalism, commerce and politics. Well-known throughout the world the games have been used to promote understanding and friendship among nations, but have also been a hotbed of political disputes and boycotts. The Olympic games started thousands of years ago and lasted over a millennium... The symbolic power of the Games lived on after their demise, and came...
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Roman Citizenship Long Term
1,590 wordsWhen Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus sought to establish the liberty of the common people and expose the crimes of the oligarchs, the guilty nobles took fright and opposed their proceedings by every means at their disposal Cicero. The Gracchi brothers were clearly well intentioned men who had the interests of Rome at heart, instead of their own, which was a common attitude amongst the other senators. The reforms of the Gracchi were long over-due and their programs were genuine attempts to deal with ...
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Assassination Of Julius Caesar Ancient Rome
668 wordsThe Assassination of Julius Caesar blows away the so called truth proffered to us by the gentlemen historians who peddle a genre biased towards an upper-class ideological perspective. Parenti is an eloquent Caesarian historian who displays an astonishing amount of research finely organized and presented in this Pulitzer Prize nominated work; which will no doubt have the Ciceronians scrambling to put together a rebuttal. The Assassination of Julius Caesar points out how numerous popular fell vict...
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Etruscan Influence On Roman Architecture
771 wordsEtruscan architecture was really the beginning of Roman architecture. For example in Etruscan tombs people would find many types of architectural traits found in many Roman buildings. Like the fact they had vaulted entrances. Some cities had an influence, such as the fortified city of North. After this Greece started to gain control in Italy that greatly affected the Roman architecture of this time but not as much as Etruscan does in the future. When the Greeks came in Rome was building their ne...
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Checks And Balances Roman Republic
1,264 wordsEssay on the breakdown of the early Ancient roman republic. For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief. Sallust The causes for the breakdown of the early Roman Republic cannot be attributed to a single event, trend or individual, rather it was due to a combination of all three in varying degrees. The principal and fundamental cause was the breakdown of the political checks a...
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Gaius Julius Caesar East And West
1,373 wordsGaius Julius Caesar was born on July 13, 100 BC to a prestigious Roman family. His uncle was Gaius Marius, the consul and leader of the agrarian reform movement. In 82 BC, Lucius Cornelius Sulla attacked the city and made himself dictator. Because Sulla was an enemy of Marius, he ordered Caesar to divorce his wife, Cornelia. Caesar refused, and fled the city until Sulla resigned in 78 BC. Caesar started his reign in a triumvirate, with himself, Pompey the Great, and Marcus Licinius Crassus. This...
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B C Caesar Returned To Rome
1,137 wordsJulius Caesar: General in Gaul Julius Gaius Caesar was a great Roman general and statesman who laid the foundations of the Roman imperial system. Born in Rome on July 12 or 13, 100 b. c. , Caesar belonged to the prestigious Julia clan; yet from early childhood his life was plagued with controversy. His uncle by marriage was Gaius Marius, leader of the Populares. This party supported agrarian reform and was opposed by a reactionary senatorial faction known as the Optimates. Marius was seven times...
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Caesar Rome Marius
244 wordsBorn in Rome on July 12 or 13, 100 BC, Caesar belonged to the prestigious Julian clan; yet from early childhood he knew controversy. His uncle by marriage was Gaius Marius, leader of the Populares. This party supported agrarian reform and was opposed by the reactionary Optimates, a senatorial faction. Marius was seven times consul (chief magistrate), and the last year he held office, just before his death in 86 BC, he exacted a terrifying toll on the Optimates. At the same time he saw to it that...
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Gaius Julius Caesar Returned To Rome
1,704 wordsGaius Julius Julius Caesar Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar has been described as one of the most influential political and military leaders in history. He began the Roman transition from a republic to an empire. Caesar united Rome under his ruthless power; he controlled religion, senate, and the military. He almost made himself emperor, and this was the fact that inspired his assassination. Caesar was born in Rome on July 12 or 13, 100 BC. He started his education early, as a young man he was placed ...
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Returned To Rome Julius Caesar
746 wordsJulius Caesar Perhaps no other man in the history of the world symbolizes military and political strength as much as does Gaius Julius Caesar. This man became a legend for his military exploits and an almost global setting, his political manipulations which covered decades of cycles which covered power and loss of power, and his personal life which to have been played in the most melodramatic and theatrical manner. It is Caesar whose life, betrayal, and death which have been immortalized in hist...
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B C Caesar Julius Caesar
1,221 words? Vini, Julius Caesar? Julius Caesar? ? Vini, Vidi, Vici? (The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations 10 - 3 - 99) which in English means? I came, I saw, I conquered. ? This was Julius Caesar? s motto when he was a soldier and invading different provinces. For this quote to still be recognized today is a compliment to Caesar? s importance and fame at the time. Julius Caesar is considered by some historians to be Rome? s greatest genius. He changed a chaotic, old system of government into the basis fo...
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775 wordsGaius Julius Caesar was born on the 13 th day of the month Quintilis, July in modern calendars, in the year 100 BC. His name was the same as his fathers, with Gaius being his given name, and Julius being his surname. Caesar was the name for one branch of the Julian family, and originally meant hairy. His family was not extremely wealthy, however they lived in relative comfort. Regardless of his background, he was well connected and did some important work for the government in his youth. When he...
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625 wordsJulius Caesar Julius Caesar was born in 100 B. C. When he was a young man he was captured by Pirates of the eastern Mediterranean sea. He was held for a ransom of 50 talents for his life. He told the pirates that someday he would hang them. However, he never got to hang them because they were captured a couple week later and put to death. In 82 B. C. Caesar had refused to obey Sulla and he left Rome in 81 B. C. When Sulla died in 78 B. C. , Caesar returned. He helped Pompey increase his power. B...
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Julius Caesar B C
788 wordsMarcus Licinius Crassus Marcus Crassus was born around 115 B. C. , though this date is not certain. He was the son of Publius Crassus who had served as consul and held various other offices. When Marius the Younger captured the city in 87 B. C. , Crassus fled from Rome to Spain where his father had been governor. Crassus father and brother became victims of Marius proscription list during this time. Crassus was a successful officer during the Civil War from 83 - 82 B. C. He managed to win a key ...
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Julius Caesar Caesar
2,151 wordsJulius Julius Ceasar Julius Ceasar Julius Caesar was said to be the greatest man in the Roman world. Some historians, and among them those of international authority, have made greater claims for him. He was the greatest of the Roman would but of antiquity. Looking through the on list of rulers, kings and emperors and the rest, they have failed to find an wu qual of this man who refused the style of king but those name Ceasar has become the commanding majesty and power. Great as a general, great...
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Seven Hills Upper Italy Rome
686 wordsAs Greece reached the pinnacle of its prosperity Rome which lye slightly to the west slowly began its rise as a civilization. The Greeks centered their culture around Art and literature whereas opposed to the Romans who settled their culture upon warfare and leadership. Without planing it Rome rose very steadily as an empire. Shortly before Christ most of the surrounding cities and nations were at peace under Romes rule. Rome was established upon seven hills next to a river known as the Tiber. T...
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Checks And Balances Civil War
1,209 wordsFor men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief. The causes for the breakdown of the early Roman Republic cannot be attributed to a single event, trend or individual, rather it was due to a combination of all three in varying degrees. The principal and fundamental cause was the breakdown of the political checks and balances, particularly the Cursus Honorum from 133 BC onwards. Th...
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