HIST 2850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Lex Titia, Rostra, Octavia The Younger
11 Apr 2017
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One of the triumvirates was killed in 53 bc. Found crassus 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 more 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 defeat pompey in pharasalus: caesar was betrayed by egyptians. While caesar was in the company of cleopatra, 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.
