CLA2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Demagogue, Aedile, Praetor

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLA2104
• Professor: Antonia Holden

Document Summary

Suetonius, life of julius caesar (written in early 2nd century ad) Plutarch, lives of caesar, pompey, crassus, cicero, cato the younger (early 2nd cent. ad) Cassius dio, history of 69-30 bc (early 3rd cent. ad). 60"s- cursus honorum - caesar is mainly a popularis. He is connected to marius through marriage of his aunt. 65 curule aedile (spent lots of money on public spectacles), 61 governor of spain, where he goes on an improper offensive beyond the provincial borders, so he needs to seek public office to avoid prosecution. 50"s - consul in 59 bc; then governor of gaul: gallic wars, conquest of gaul. 49-45 bc- civil war with pompey after crossing the rubicon river. 44 bc - named dictator perpetuus - dictator for life. Ides of march, 44 bce - stabbed to death by senators weary of his power. Rome in the sixties : caesar is on the rise, subtle shifts in political dynamics in rome: new alliances.