Dictator Flashcards
Tiro’s shorthand system
Notae Tironianae
Quote at start of part one - “The melencholy of the antique world …”
Flaubert
Part One - Exile
58-47BC
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always …
a child
Distance Cicero has to get from Rome
400 miles
Shrine to be erected on Cicero’s house
Liberty
Quaestor offering sanctuary in Thessalonica
Gnaeus Plancius
Highway to Byzantium
Egnatia
Island annexed by Clodius
Cyprus
Governor of Cyprus
Cato, assisted by Brutus (nephew)
Who comes to see Cicero from Rome
Titus Annius Milo
Milo’s gladiator
Birria
Where does Tiro catch up with Caesar
Mutina
Caesar’s staff officer who recognises Tiro
Publius Crassus (son of Marcus)
Caesar’s accounts of his campaign
Commentaries
Word Caesar writes on Cicero’s letter
Approved
Terentia’s steward
Philotimus
Cicero family dog - terrier, killed
Myia
Right of citizens to demonstrate outside house of people responsible for grievance
Flagitatio
“It is human nature that what starts as gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends as
entitlement
Statue puporting to by Liberty, installed by Clodius
Statue of courtesan, stolen from Tanagra by Appius, brother of Clodius
Who has had Terentia whipped
Clodia
Where is Quintus appointed grain commissioner by Pompey
Sardinia
Murdered philosopher
Dio of Alexandria
Who is the exiled pharaoh behind the murder of Dio
Ptolemy XII - the Flute Player
Dogs beloved of Egyptians
Greyhounds
Ptolemy’s 11 year old daughter
Cleopatra
Present from Ptolemy to Cicero
Jade statue of Hedj-Wer, god of writing - baboon
Who provides Asicius with an alibi for the murder of Dio
Rufus
Whose house is attacked by the followers of Clodius
Milo
Who is Rufus prosecuting for bribery
Bestia
Who defends Rufus against the suit brought by Bestia and Clodius
Cicero
Atticus’s new wife
Pilia
The Medea of the Palatine
Clodia (Cicero)
New villa left to Cicero in a will
Cumae - Lucrine Lake
Sybil …
Lives in a jar in Cumae
What is the message from the triumvirate in Luca to Cicero
Shut up
Where do the Triumvirate meet
Luca (Luca accord)
Manuscripts in Sulla’s library
Aristotle’s Politics
Cicero’s reworking of Aristotle
On the Republic
Month renamed July
Quintilus
Where is Crassus killed
Carrhae
Crassus’s legate who sends news of his death
Cassius (Longinus)
Play Crassus’s head is used as a prop during
The Bacchae
Crassus’s mouth filled with
molton gold
Milo and Clodius fight at
Bovillae, Via Appia
Where is Clodius’s funeral pyre
Senate chamber
Who owns the eating house of the eating house plot
Licinius (near Circus Maximus)
Who marries Cornelia, the widow of Publius Crassus
Pompey
Province drawn by Cicero
Cilicia (including Cyprus)
Final victory of Caesar’s in Gaul
Uxellodunum (capture of Vercingetorix)
What does Caesar do to two thousand gallic fighters at Uxellodunum
Cuts their hands off
Tullia’s new (third) husband
Publius Cornelius Dolabella
Cicero tells Tiro he’ll meet “Where I was first visited by Tiro”
Thessalonica
Rhodian quniquereme where oarsman has a dream
Europa
Decisive battle of civil war, Pompey’s defeat
Pharsalus
Where do Senate make for following defeat at Pharsalus
Corcyra (Corfu)
Ex-Tribune who puts Cicero under house arrest when he returns to Italy
Vatinius (ugliest man in Rome)
Kill stirring up trouble in Campania
Tiro and Rufus
Pompey killed in
Egypt - Pelusium
Pompey killed by
Achillas - Egyptian general and Lucius Septimus - military tribune
Anthony’s new wife
Fulvia - widow of Clodius
Part Two
Redux - 47BC-43BC
Cicero and Terentia divorce at
Tusculum
Library at Tusculum
Lyceum (Aristotle)
Garden at Tusculum
Academy (Plato)
Cicero’s favourite statue
Hermathena - gift fromAtticus
Book of oratory
Brutus
Brutus son of
Servilia - Caesar’s old mistress
Companion volume to Brutus
Orator
Cassius married to …
Brutus’s sister
Cato commits suicide after battle of
Thaspus
Cato dies at
Utica
Gaulish chief strangled after Caesar’s triumph
Vercingetorix
Senate meeting at
Pompey’s theatre, Field of Mars
Pompey’s sons leading uprising in Spain
Gnaeus and Sextus
Cicero’s new properties
Astura (island) and Puteoli
Tullia dies of
Consumption
Cicero’s work on grief
Consolation
Cicero’s work on death
Tusculum Disputations
Ceasar circulates a riposte to Cicero’s eulogy of
Cato
New Master of Horse stationed on Tibur Island on Ides of March
Lepidus
Gladiators nearby on the Ides of March provided by
Decimus
Caesar first struck by
Tillius Cimber and Publius Casca
Who knifes Brutus in the hand
Cassius
Caesar’s last words
Even you?
Brutus cries out
Long Live Cicero
Assassins flee to
Capital
Appointed Caesar’s heir
Octavius - now Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus
Caesar’s eulogy delivered by
Mark Anthony
Poet mistakenly killed by mob
Helvius Cinna
Who bring Octavian to see Cicero
Balbus
New Pontifex Maximum
Lepidus
“I have put out my books and now my house has
a soul”
Cicero gives Tiro …
On Friendship
Agathe owns the bathhouse in
Baiae
Natural phenomenon following the death of Caesar
Comet
Cicero’s denounciations of Mark Anthony
Philippics (five)
Philippics named after
Demonthenes’s oratons against Philip II
New consuls
Hirtius and Pansa - both die in battle
Hirtius suffering from what Hippocrates calls
Carcino
Decimus besieged by Mark Anthony at
Mutina (Modena)
Cicero says Octavian will be …
Raised, Praised and Erased
Peace delegation sent to Mark Anthony
Piso, Philippus and Servius Sulpicius (who dies)
Spartan warriors
“I shall return either with my shield, or on it”
Battle at which Hirtius and Pansa both die
Forum Gallorum
“Will the Dog Star still rise on the same date?”
“It will do as it is told”
Who does Atticus lend money
Fulvia - Anthony’s wife
Where do Octavian, Anthony and Lepidus meet
Bononia
Cicero killed at
Formiae
Cicero killed by
Caius Popillius Laenas (parricide defendant)
