While it is clear that Pompey the Great was a successful general‚ how he came to be so is a more complicated matter. To analyse Pompey’s career this essay will first examine his background‚ highlighting the advantages and difficulties that arose from being from a fairly new noble family. Additionally key events in Pompey’s career will be explored chronologically‚ focusing on his most important military successes as well as his political career. This will attempt to determine how much his success
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PLANS AND STREETSCAPES OF POMPEII AND HERCULANEUM POMPEII: - 66 hectares in area. Only two-thirds of the site of Pompeii has been excavated. - Walls – 3.2 km of wall built from tufa. Some sections of the wall at the east of the town had been dismantled - Watch towers – some towers still remain in the wall‚ on the north side of Pompeii - Stepping stones were placed across streets to allow people to cross the street without getting wet or muddy (or worse). - Use of land: Temples‚ theatres
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How did Sulla’s reform program attempt to restore the republic? Throughout the time of Sulla’s command‚ Rome underwent many reforms in which were introduced with the intentions to restore the republic. Among Sulla’s many attempts to re-establish the traditional roman republic‚ the most significant were his strong efforts to strengthen the senate‚ restrict the power of the tribunes and curb the influence of the magistrates. By increasing the numbers of the Senate to 300 as well as allowing the
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At the beginning of The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare‚ Lucrece is introduced as “Lucrece the chaste”. Furthermore‚ a first description of her beauty is given by her husband Collatine‚ saying that her face is of “clear unmatched red and white“(l. 11) and her eyes are “mortal stars as bright as heaven´s beauties”. It occurs again a few stanzas later when Lucrece welcomes Tarquin in Collatium: Within whose face beauty and virtue strived Which of them both should underprop her fame. When virtue
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History Of Lamar‚ Colorado In 1886 I.R. Holmes created a land company with Colonel A.S. Johnson and J.E. Godding‚ with associates Captain Daniel E. Cooper‚ M.D. Parmenter‚ M.L. Swift‚ Captain Spivy‚ and Holmes’ brother J.H. Holmes. I.R. Holmes was an experienced land promoter who headed the Garden City – Lamar contingent. He wanted to create a new land office site in the Bent County area. Holmes eventually found a site in the southeast quarter of section 31‚ township 22‚ range 46. It was located
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extensively throughout the Empire in order to check up on the Roman provinces and to ensure that the Governors were doing their duties to the Empire. Before his death in 138 Hadrian adopted Antonius Pius on the condition that Pius adopted either Lucius Verus or Marcus Aurelius as his successor. During his reign he was viewed by the senate with suspicion‚ because upon his accession and in his absence the members of the Senate had been “forced” into calling for the execution of four Politian’s who may
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Augustus‚ son of a divus‚ father of the fatherland. He son of divus is in reference to his relation to the Divine Julius Caesar who adopted him as his son. On the reserve of the coin‚ depicted is Gaius and Lucius Caesar standing left and right of two shields with the inscription‚ Gaius and Lucius Caesar‚ sons of Augustus‚ consuls designate‚ princes of youth. The inscription shows the titles that were given to Gaius and
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wastes no time in making his presence known and reveals his true identity in front of Commodus and the masses. He is soon involved in a plot to overthrow the emperor with his former lover‚ Lucilla‚ Commodus’ sister whom he lusts and is the mother of Lucius. Commodus now learns of the plot and made his soldiers attack the gladiator school on the night of Maximus’ attempted escape. Maximus’ fellow gladiators where killed while the survivors were imprisoned along with his friend Juba. Maximus makes it
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told in the movie‚ was that his adoptive brother Lucius Verus‚ was made co-emperor with Marcus as during the time of the Republic‚ the Empire was ruled by two consuls with equal power and the senate. This was to guard against dictatorship. So‚ it is a possibility that Marcus really did have Republican inclinations‚ as said in the movie‚ or this could’ve been a move to avoid the same death as Caesar. Though Rome was ruled by both Aurelius and Verus‚ Aurelius was considered the true ruler of Rome.
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worst of all.” Aurelius’s well–known aphorisms such as “Man is worth as much as what he is interested in is worth”—have served as both solace and guide to innumerable readers for many centuries. Aurelius was born in Rome in 121. His father‚ Annius Verus‚ was a consular‚ his mother‚ Domitia Lucilla‚ was well educated‚ fluent in Greek‚ extremely wealthy‚ and also of aristocratic birth. Incorporated into their son’s early education in character‚ culture‚ poetry‚ and public speaking‚ was an emphasis on
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