history behind

Question 1

when was Aug born

Answer 1

63 BC

Question 2

when was Aug given toga virilis

Answer 2

48BC - now officially a man, cloak of manhood

Question 3

when was Aug granted triumphal honours by Caesar

Answer 3

46BC despite having no military service

Question 4

when was Caesar assassinated

Answer 4

15th March 44BC

Question 5

when and what source is it for Aug’s return to Rome

Answer 5

march 44BC Aug returns to Rome (SUET 95) - twelve vultures appear, a halo around the sun’s disk and lightning strikes Julia’s tomb

-july he hosts the games of Venus Genetrix and there is a comet in the sky = Caesar’s deification

Question 6

when does cicero do the phillipics

Answer 6

OCT 44BC as MA-Senate relationship collapses.
=series of speeches condemning MA.

Question 7

when is Aug induced into the senate

Answer 7

43BC - aged 19

Question 8

when does Oct send pressure on the senate for consulship

Answer 8

July 43BC he sent a deputation of centurions (400) to protest for his consulship
=the senate granted consulship and offered 10,000 sesterces for each man

Question 9

octavian 1st consulship `

Answer 9

43BC

Question 10

when was the 2nd triumvirate formed and what followed.

Answer 10

nov 43BC - reintroduction of proscription
=execution of 100+ senators, Cicero, 2000 equites. property confiscated.

Question 11

Stat for proscription

Answer 11

NOV 43BC - execution of 100+ senators, Cicero, 2000 equites. property confiscated.

Question 12

Battle of Phillipi

Answer 12

OCT 42BC - triumvirs vs conspirators. Antony got credit and eastern provinces, Oct got Sicily, Sardinia.

Question 13

Perusine war

Answer 13

41BC AUTUMN - Antony’s wife and brother (Fulvia and Lucius Antonius) plot to undermine Octavian. He besieges them in Perusia
=he storms the city

=> breakdown in trust between MA and Aug due to the associations
=treaty of brundisium

Question 14

what did the Perusine war lead to

Answer 14

due to the tensions between: TREATY OF BRUNDISIUM
-Oct gets west, MA gets east, Lepidus gets Africa

Question 15

Pompey naval blockade

Answer 15

39BC Sextus Pompey threatens grain supply through naval blockade - republican and anti-triumviral resistance to him.

=the treaty of Misenum

Question 16

what did pompey’s naval blockade lead to

Answer 16

TREATY OF MISENUM 39BC - Pompey given control of islands in return for ceasing piracy and blockage.

Question 17

when does MA marry cleopatra

Answer 17

37BC

Question 18

when does Oct marry Livia

Answer 18

38BC - divorced Scribonia the day before, she had birthed his only child Julia.

Question 19

treaty of tarentum

Answer 19

37BC - MA supplies Octavian with ships, Octavian promises 20,000 soldiers of which he delivers 2000, for MA’s Parthian Campaign.

Question 20

Battle of Naulochus

Answer 20

36BC - Octavian (ie Agrippa - 300 ships) leads battle against Sextus Pompey.
Once triumphed, land available in Sicily which Lepidus attempts to take as there is a power vacuum, but Octavian convinces Lepidus’ men to mutiny. Lepidus is stripped of his powers as a triumvir and exiled.

-work starts on the temple of Apollo on the Paletine

Question 21

when is Aug;s 2nd consulship

Answer 21

33BC

Question 22

when does MA tryt o make his son Caesar’s official heir

Answer 22

33BC - Caesarion (JC’s child with Cleopatra)

Question 23

when does the senate declare war against Cleopatra

Answer 23

32BC after the reading of the will - elected Aug as the leader of the war effort

Question 24

when does Oct read MA’s will

Answer 24

32BC - Octavian steals Antony’s will from the temple of vesta and reads it to the senate. States his plans to take over the east, devotion to Cleopatra, not the republic, and how he wished to be buried in Alexandria not Rome

-same time as Aug announces his Mausoleum = provides contrast

Question 25

oct 3rd consulshp

Answer 25

31BC

Question 26

battle of actium

Answer 26

SEPT 31BC between Octavian v MA + Cleo. Octavian wins.

Portrait of Livia

Question 27

Cleo and MA’s suicide

Answer 27

30BC - Octavian pursues MA until they commit suicide

Octavian invades Egypt and orders Caesarion and Antony’s eldest son by Cleo to be killed. The rest are sent to Octavia

=kalabsha gate relief and Horace Epodes 9

Question 28

When was first settlement

Answer 28

JAN 27BC - Augustus given control over Spain, Gaul, Syria and Egypt, imperium for 10 years, clipeuim virtus etc in return for him to hand back his unconstitutional powers

Question 29

when were the donations of alexandria

Answer 29

34BC

Question 30

when was Oct offered dictatorship

Answer 30

22BC as there was rioting over the grain shortage. he refused.

Question 31

when was the return of the parthian standards

Answer 31

20BC

Question 32

when was the prima porta commissioned

Answer 32

20BC after the return of the parthian standards

Question 33

when does Agrippa complete the Aqua Virgo

Answer 33

19BC - this was a 21km aqueduct to supply Rome with 100 million litres of water a day.

Question 34

when does work on the Ara Pacis start

Answer 34

13BC to commemorate the triumphal return of Aug from Hispania and GAUL.

Question 35

When did Lepidus die

Answer 35

12BC - Aug is now elected Pontifex Maximus = respectful to honour tradition of waiting for PM to die.