HIS240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vestal Virgin, Via Traiana, Appian Way
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Connected to rome by the via appia and the via traiana. Religious-political (theo political) statement by cleopatra vii and mark antony in which they distributed lands held by rome and parthia amongst cleopatra"s children and granted them many titles. Donations caused a fatal breach in antony"s relations with rome, and were amongst the causes of the final war of the roman republic. Major conflict between the roman republic (represented by mark antony in the. Disastrous defeat for antony, the war became a strategic draw when peace was later negotiated by augustus. Caesar planned the campaign into the parthian empire in 44 bc to avenge the defeat of a roman army led by crassus at the battle of carrhae. Priestesses of vesta, goddess of the hearth. College of vestals and its well-being was regarded as fundamental to the countenance of security of rome. Cultivated the sacred fire that was not allowed to go out.
