CLST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Livia, Antonia Minor, Arpino
26 Apr 2016
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Midterm - end of 2nd punic war to death of julius caesar. About 60 people were participants or privy to the plot: caesar"s own wife had a dream about it in ancient sources, and seer prophet, who warned him to beware the ides of march. Every month in roman calendar has ides, the mid point of march. Caesars co-consul and body guard was marc antony, marcus antonius, and could take 10 people himself, diverted him one members of conspiracy was to keep marc antony from senate. One guys go up and asks for brother in exile to get pardoned, and conspirators grabbed him by the shoulders, and then stabbed him. Irony, died at foot of statue of pompey the great, wasn"t the senate house, room next to the theatre of pompey. Marc antony mother was a julia, so a cousin of julius caesar.
