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First triumvirate mini test Flashcards

1
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who were the members

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pompey
caesar
crassus

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when was it formed

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60BC

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when did it end

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53 BC

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what bonded all of the members of the first triumvirate together?

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Power: the alliance mutually benefited all of them

they all needed eachother

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What Crassus offers to the first triumvirate

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Money

Can be used for bribery, corruption, campaigning, raising armies

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What Ceasar offers to the first Triumvirate

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1) Status
2) Julian name - patrician
3) Hugely popular with the people
4) Political power

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What Pompey offers to the first triumvirate

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Military
Great commander
Loyal, experienced troops
popular

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which members of the triumvirate had a natural alliance

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caesar and crassus

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why did Pompey join the first triumvirate

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  • wanted land allocations for his veterans and ratification of his treaties with the east
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why did caesar join the first triumvirate

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  • wanted reform for better conditions for plebs
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why did crassus join the first triumvirate

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  • wanted a rebate for the tax farmers in asia
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which members of the alliance long hated each other

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crassus and pompey

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Pompeys relationship to Cicero

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  • Cicero began as pompey’s client (amicitia)
  • Cicero tried to defend Pompey whenever possible
  • However relationship came under strain
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Crassus relationship to Ciero

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Cicero had a political fight with Caesar and Crassus as he disagreed with their political principles

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Cicero’s relationship with Caesar

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  • Cicero joined Pompey rather than Ceasar in civil war

Not very good, Caesar went against mos maiorum

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What was Pompey and Cesars relationship like?

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Good, but Pompey was getting gel of Caesar’s success in Gual

17
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Ciero’s actions towards first triumvirate - how he attempted to get back into politics after exile

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  • gained Pompey cura Annonae
  • However he delivered the pro sestio speech against Caesar’s legislation as consul. He thought it wouldn’t matter as the triumvirs were in such bad relations, there was a real shock when they patched things up
18
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Conferences at Ravenna and Luca

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  • over 200 senators there, Cicero not invited as they thought he would object to it
  • Caesar’s imperium is extended, 5 more years in Gaul
  • Crassus- Consul 55BC - SYria
  • Pompey- Consul 55BC - Spain (in absetentia)
19
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what does Cicero do about the triumvirate?

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  • Realises he can’t do anything to stop them, so says he’ll ‘sing my palinode’ aka join them and apolgoise
20
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How does Cicero regain the triumvirs trust?

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  • Gives numerous speeches to defend what they want:

+ Delivers a ‘Pro Balbo’ speech to defend Bablus- Man liked by them
+ Defends Vatinius
+ Defends Gabinius, Pompey’s friend. (Unable to defend him and he is exiled)

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What is bad about the way Cicero goes about regaining their trust?

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Hugely against his values
They are guilty yet defends them anyway
He already is in bed relations with Gabinius,

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Why does Cicero do the speeches?

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He really doesn’t want to, yet has to ‘swallow the bitter pill’ to get in their good books

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Pompey

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+ Populares
+ From a rich provincial family
+ Rose to power through military successes, consul 3 times

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Caesar

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+ Populares
+ From Julian clan, Family closely connected with Marian faction, Patrician
+ Quaestor in 69, Aedile in 65, Prateor in 67

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Crassus

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+ Optimate
+ Son of senator PUblius
+ Began as a military commander under Sulla in Civil war, gathered wealth

26
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How did Cicero feel about the first triumvirate

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  • He disliked it
  • Went strongly against his values
  • Felt they were too powerful, taking away peoples freedom, no one could rise up against them
27
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aim of the first triumvirate

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to oppose the optimises in the senate who were blocking Populares motions, to push through the bills which the senate were frustrating

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agreement of the first triumvirate

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  • crassus funded Caesar’s election campaigns
  • Caesar would support Pompey’s bills for land alocation to veterans and confirm his treaties in the east
  • Pompey would marry Caesar’s daughter Julia
  • Caesar would support Crassus’ tax rebate for farmers in Asia
29
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how did the first triumvirate come to form

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by uncompromising refusal to meet the demands of pompey, caesar and crassus the senate naturally drop them into each others arms

30
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why was cicero exiled

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  • following a law from vengeful Tribune Clodius in 58 which reasserted the illegality of putting Roman citizens to death even under an SCU
31
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support from the triumvirate when cicero was exiled

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  • pompey failed to support cicero as he had been rumoured to be one of the intended assassins in a plot to kill Pompey
  • caesar had supported clodius, particularly by enabling him to be adopted into the plebeian order to stand as tribune. He did not support cicero
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terms of cicero’s exile

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  • he was ordered to leavee rome forever and stay at least 400 miles from the city
  • he went to Thessalonika in Macedonia and then Dyrrachium on the Adriatic coast
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How did Cicero get recalled from exile - pompey’s issues

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  • the year 57 saw the end of Clodius’ tribuneship, and 8 of the 10 new tribunes were supporters of pompey, as was one of the new consuls
  • pompey campaigned to have cicero recalled from rome but was beset by terrible mob violence orchestrated by clodius. voting proved impossible
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How did Cicero get recalled from exile - pompey’s solution

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  • pompey responsed by using two of his powerful tribunes, Sestius and Milo to guard a senate meeting to allow a vote on whether to recall cicero or not
  • the vote was passed and taken to the centuriate assembly with Pompey’s guard’s in place
35
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How was cicero welcomed back after Exile

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  • he had a glorious homecoming, with throngs of people filling the streets and open spaces of the city to welcome him back
36
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How had politics changed whilst cicero was in exile

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  • cicero perceived an increasing strain in the amicitia of the triumvirate
  • caesar was in Gaul, successfully campaigning, Whilst pompey was stuck in Rome with no glory
  • pompey had got the support of Tribune Milo to try to check the urban mob in Rome, but Crassus had supported Clodius and his gangalang
37
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What did Cicero do when seeing the triumvirate weakening

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  • led lawsuits against Clodius in defence of Sestius, criticising allies of Caesar’s in the proccess
  • in 56 he arranged to be bought up for senatorial debate the subject of Caesar’s Campanian land law, in an attempt to disempower caesar
38
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What happened before the camanian land law could be debated

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  • cicero discovered that Caesar, Crassus and pompey had met up in Luca, reconciled and planned newly to divide up Roman territory between them as they wished
  • from them on cicero worked for the triumvirate, defending them
39
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breakdown of triumvirate

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54- Pompey’s wife and caesar’s daughter Julia died

53- Crassus died on his Parthian campaign

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