Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Tyrant, Epicureanism, Catullus
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Caesar besieges pompey: most senators believe that both side were at fault, pompey outnumbered caesar in soldiers, caesar defeated pompey"s 60k with 30k only. Rome was free again: rome was tyrant clean again, but the public was completely silence, then the public actually didn"t hate caesar the way senates hated him. End of the roman republic: the conspirators thought that they freed rome, greeks weren"t interested, they were like: yea cool, romans were like: yes we"re free again, modern scholars said: when they were poor, they robbed other people. When they were rich, they robbed each other: there was a public funeral for caesar, they opened his will, and he left a lot of money for every single person in. 19: for some reason octavian switches sides, and joins mark antony and enters. Rome with their army and seizes control: they form the second 3 men gang with anthony, octavian and lepidus of.