HIST 2850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cura Annonae, Numidia, Lex Titia
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One of the triumvirates was killed in 53 bc: crassus found himself campaigning in the far-eastern world in parthenian. Records that the parthenians decapitated his head and put gold in the mouth, they also found a soldier that looked like crassus and dressed him like a girl and paraded him around to humiliate them. Civil war between caesar and pompey: caesar represented a great threat to pompey. Caesar defeats pompey in pharasalus: caesar was betrayed by egyptians. While caesar was in the company of cleo, he ventured north to lead a campaign to fight pharnaces ii in pontus: fought pharnaces ii in the 2nd battle of zela. Zela battle (47 bc) was a 5-day campaign. Caesar began working in a way that alienated him. In the aftermath of the assassination, the streets were deserted and people locked themselves in their homes.