Dictator - full deck 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
Colour of Cicero’s toga during exile
Black
Governor of Sicily who refuses Cicero permission to land
Gaius Vergilius
Distance Cicero has to get from Rome
400 miles
Shrine to be erected on Cicero’s house
Liberty
Friend providing sanctuary near Brindisium
Flaccus
Where does Cicero land in Illyricum
Dyrrachium
Where does Cicero intend making for
Epirus - Atticus
Governor denying sanctuary in Macedonia
Apuleius Saturnius
Quaestor offering sanctuary in Thessalonica
Gnaeus Plancius
Highway to Byzantium
Egnatia
Town on border with Macedonia
Lychnidos
Where had Terentia had to take refuge
House of the Vestal Virgins
Island annexed by Clodius
Cyprus
Governor of Cyprus
Cato, assisted by Brutus (nephew)
King of Armenia lodged with
Lucius Flavius (by Pompey)
Friend of Pompey’s killed by Clodius’s followers
Marcus Papirius
Couriers between Rome and Thessalonika provided by
Epiphanes
Who comes to see Cicero from Rome
Titus Annius Milo
Milo’s gladiator
Birria
What is Milo’s profession
Gladiator school
Senior consul in Rome at the time of Cicero’s exile
Piso
Piso governorship after consul
Macedonia
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
Where does Caesar battle with the Helvetii
Bibracte
Caesar’s aide-de-camp
Aulus Hirtius (later consul)
Word Caesar writes on Cicero’s letter
Approved
Who is at Brindisium to meet Cicero
Tullia
Which villa does Cicero inspect on his way back to Rome
Formiae
River Almo
Temple of the Great Mother
Cicero makes offerings to
Minerva
Consul when Cicero returns from exile
Lentulus Spinther, Metellus Nepos
Terentia’s steward
Philotimus
Cicero family dog - terrier, killed
Myia
Cicero’s nephew
Quintus jr
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
Cicero appeals the destruction of his house on Victory Rise to
Pontifical college, old Regia
Only absent pontiff
Caesar
Senior pontiff hearing Cicero’s appeal
Publius Albinovanus
Statue puporting to by Liberty, installed by Clodius
Statue of courtesan, stolen from Tanagra by Appius, brother of Clodius
Compensation granted to Cicero for damage to property
Palatine - 2mTusculum - 0.5mFormiae - 0.25m
Who contributes builders to help Cicero
Pompey
House Cicero takes refuge in when attacked by Clodios’s followers
Tettius Damio
Who has had Terentia whipped
Clodia
Where is Quintus appointed grain commissioner by Pompey
Sardinia
Murdered philosopher
Dio of Alexandria
Where was Dio staying
Titus Coponius
Who is the exiled pharaoh behind the murder of Dio
Ptolemy XII - the Flute Player
Three candidates to assist Ptolemy XII
Spinther, Crassus, Pompey
Reward for the restoration of Ptolemy XII
6,000 gold talents
Dogs beloved of Egyptians
Greyhounds
Ptolemy’s 11 year old daughter
Cleopatra
Who is accused of killing Dio
Publius Asicius - Pompey’s estate manager
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
Why does Cicero offer to defend Bestia
He saved Publius Sestia in the forum
What is the countersuit against Rufus brought by Bestia and Clodius
Political violence, poisoning of Clodia
Who defends Rufus against the suit brought by Bestia and Clodius
Cicero
Rufus’s trial starts on the festival of the …
great mother
Rufus’s other advocate
Crassus
Atticus’s new wife
Pilia
Tullia’s new husband
Furius Crassipes
The Medea of the Palatine
Clodia (Cicero)
Blind ancestor of Clodia who Cicero pretend’s to be
Appius Claudius
New villa left to Cicero in a will
Cumae - Lucrine Lake
Pompey’s new suburban villa
Pincian Hills
Sybil …
Lives in a jar in Cumae
Who brings news of the meeting at Luca to Cicero
Lucius Vibullius Rufus - officer of Pompey’s
What is the message from the triumvirate in Luca to Cicero
Shut up
Where do the Triumvirate meet
Luca (Luca accord)
Five year governorships …
Pompey to Spain, Crassus to Syria
What does Cicero call his long letter to Pompey
Palinode
Who returns from Cyprus at this time
Cato and Brutus
Who grants Quintus a commission at Cicero’s request
Caesar
Which empire does Crassus attack
Parthian
Governor of Syria who restores Ptolemy XII
Gabinius
Crassus’s wife
Tertulla
Publius Crassus’s new bride
Cornelia - daughter of Scipio Nasica
Who has Milo married
Faustus - twin sister of Sulla
Manuscripts in Sulla’s library
Aristotle’s Politics
Cicero’s reworking of Aristotle
On the Republic
Where does Tiro fall ill
Arpinium
Greek doctor sent by Cicero to treat Tiro
Andricus
Praetor who frees Tiro
Caius Marcellus
Month renamed July
Quintilus
Where is Crassus killed
Carrhae
Crassus’s legate who sends news of his death
Cassius (Longinus)
Parthian king
Orodes II
Parthian capital
Seleucia
Parthian commander
Sillaces
Play Crassus’s head is used as a prop during
The Bacchae
Crassus’s mouth filled with
molton gold
Elections that year
Clodius as praetor, Milo for consul
Fasces of missing consuls placed in …
Temle of Libitina, goddess of the dead
Why does Milo travel to Lanuvium
New priest for the Temple of Juno the Saviour
Milo and Clodius fight at
Bovillae, Via Appia
Who throws a javelin at Clodius
Birria
Who kills Clodius
Milo
Senator who brings Clodius’s body home
Sextus Tedius
Where is Clodius’s funeral pyre
Senate chamber
In the absence of consuls, who is the interrex
Lepidus
Where does the Senate meeting after the chamber is burnt down
Pompey’s theatre
Who owns the eating house of the eating house plot
Licinius (near Circus Maximus)
Who is given the task of selling Milo’s assets to help his wife
Philotimus
Who marries Cornelia, the widow of Publius Crassus
Pompey
Pompey’s father in law now …
Scipio Nasica
Province drawn by Cicero
Cilicia (including Cyprus)
Cilicia borders …
Syria
Current governor of Cilicia
Appius Clodius Pulcher (Clodius’s brother)
Standing army for Cicilian governor
14000
Praetors Cicero appoints with him for Cilcia
Caius Pomptinus and Quintus
Tullia has just been divorced by …
Crassipes
Pompey’s summer villa
Tarentum
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
Principle professor at the Athens academy, Epicurean
Aristus
First town in Cilicia
Laodicea
Cassius besieged by the son of the King of Parthia at
Antioch
Revolting fortress in Cicilia
Pindessium
Tullia’s new (third) husband
Publius Cornelius Dolabella
Greek merchant Tiro stays with while sick in Patrae
Lyso
Greek doctor attendingto Tiro in Lyso
Asclapo
House Tiro moves to in Patrae
Manius Curius
Where does Cicero withdraw to when Caesar invades Italy
Formiae
Boys’ tutor in Cicilia (informant)
Dionysus
Cicero tells Tiro he’ll meet “Where I was first visited by Tiro”
Thessalonica
Port Caesar seizes in Illyricum
Apollonia
Caesar’s deputy in the civil war
Mark Anthony
Pompey’s camp in Illyricum
Apsos
Cicero’s tent next to Cato’s nephew
Brutus
Battle won by Pompey
Dyrrachium
Via Egnatia
Road to Byzantium
Pompey’s naval commander in civil war
Caius Coponius
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)
Temple senate meets in on Corcyra
Zeus
Son of Pompey who attacks Cicero
Gnaeus
Who saves Cicero from Gnaeus Pompey
Cato
Who does Cicero find when he returns to Curius’s house in Patrae
Quintus, Marcus, Quintus Jr
Where has Pompey fled to meet his wife following defeat at Pharsalus
Lesbos
Ex-Tribune who puts Cicero under house arrest when he returns to Italy
Vatinius (ugliest man in Rome)
New Master of Horse
Mark Anthony
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 wife, later divorced
Antonia
Anthony’s new wife
Fulvia - widow of Clodius
Anthony’s mistress
Volumnia Cytheris - nude actress
Caesar in Egypt with
Cleopatra
Cato raising an army in
Egypt
Ceasar returns to Italy via
Tarentum
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
Lucullus’s property next door now owned by
Hirtius
Cassius married to …
Brutus’s sister
Woman Tiro encounters in Dolabella’s house
Metella
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
Cicero marries again
Publilia
Tullia’s sone
Publius Lentulus
Tullia dies of
Consumption
Cicero’s work on grief
Consolation
Cicero’s work on death
Tusculum Disputations
Dolabella wounded at
Munda
Ceasar circulates a riposte to Cicero’s eulogy of
Cato
Client who leaves estate at Puteoli to Cicero
Cluvius
Engineer that dies when Caesar is in Puteoli
Mamurra - apoplexy
Ceasar has seventh month renamed
July
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
Who summons the Senate following the assassination
Mark Anthony
Lepidus married to
Junia Secunda (Brutus’s sister)
Anthony convenes Senate at
Temple of Tellus
Consul’s appointed by Caesar before assassination
Mark Anthony and Dolabella
Where did Caesar make a new will
Lavicum
Who is now living in Pompey’s old house
Mark Anthony
Appointed Caesar’s heir
Octavius - now Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus
Octavian is son of
Caesar’s niece Atia
How much to every citizen in Caesar’s will
300s, public park along the Tibur
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
Brutus’s current position
Urban Praetor - Games of Apollo
“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
Senate now meeting at
Temple of Concordia
Cicero’s denounciations of Mark Anthony
Philippics (five)
Philippics named after
Demonthenes’s oratons against Philip II
Atticus’s new villa
Lake Volsinii
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”
Assassin tortured and killed by Dollabella
Trebonius
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
Tiro acquires some …
Hemlock
Elderly neighbour killed in Rome
Caesetius Rufus
Where do Octavian, Anthony and Lepidus meet
Bononia
Cicero killed at
Formiae
Cicero killed by
Caius Popillius Laenas (parricide defendant)
