CLAS 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sextus Pompey
13 Feb 2018
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The person who creates the concept of an emperor in the roman world. (cid:403)(cid:403): mobs threaten to drive caesar"s assassins out of rome. Mark antony leads the caesareans in rome. Octavius named heir and returns to rome. (cid:403)(cid:402): siege of mu(cid:2210)na con(cid:2210)nues demands and is granted consulship. Join with octavian in the second triumvirate. Li(cid:91)ed with octavian"s help by hir(cid:2210)us and pansa, a(cid:91)er whose death octavian. Process by which dictators would write down all the names of their poli(cid:2210)cal enemies and it would be used as a hit list. If someone killed a person on the list they would be rewarded. (cid:403)(cid:400): lucius antonius tried to unseat octavian. (cid:403)(cid:399): l. antonius and wife fulvia besieged and defeated at perugia; mark antony marries. (cid:402)9 bce: octavian invites sextus pompey to support him. (cid:402)8: octavian a(cid:130)acks sextus pompey in sicily. (cid:402)6: sextus pompey defeated in sicily and lepidus" claim on the island rejected; Mark antony makes a disastrous a(cid:130)empt at subjuga(cid:2210)ng parthia.
