CLST 201 Lecture Notes - Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Novus Homo, Octavians
14 Mar 2013
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Lepidus appointed caesar for 11 day dictatorship in dec 49 to organize election. 2nd dictatorship 48 bc dictatorship renewable annually for 10 years 46. After he returned from his victorious african campaign in 46, people started to doubt he"d pull a. Feb 14 44 dictator perpetuus, dictator for life. Voted in by senate, worried all the conservative republicans. All routine administration lay in the hands of caesar himself, or is magister equitum, lepidus. All magistracies were determined in advance by caesar. Caesar showed respect to the senate, but conducted important matters of deliberation in private; consulted senate as formality. Same day, feb 14, 1944, donned the purple robe of rome"s early kings; not the purple boardered toga of senate. Replaced the curule senate"s chair of ivory with a throne of gold. 44 caesar"s head appeared on coins; never before given to living people. Official cult at rome, with antony as his priest.
