CLA231H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cisalpine Gaul, Catullus, Lesbia
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; augustus shared his tibunition and power with him: he convinced him to divorce his wife and marry julia (he wanted someone from his blood line), her 3rd arranged marriage. It was a complete disaster; they could not stand each other, they had one child who died as an infant: tiberius decided that he was going to leave rome all together. 1 a. d. , they died under mysterious circumstances, gaius might have been killed by. Livia to promote her son tiberius if so, then her plan worked: octavian had no choice but to summon tiberius back, bestowing him imperium and. Not until the 2nd century bc that they develop what we consider literature; when they started expanding into the greek world, a much older culture (more literate) At first educated romans simply translated greek literature; in the mid-1st century b. c. , they started making their own, similar to greek but still their own. His poems belong to the 50s b. c.
