Plutarch, Parallel Lives Flashcards
Sulla found Pompey’s qualities
‘so impressive’
-pompey divorces wife Anstia and marry Sula’s daughter Aemelia ‘heartless act’, Anista father was murdered supposedly as a result of ‘Pompey being on Sulla’s side’
67BC Lex Gabinia
Pompey’s imperium against pirates
‘full-blown autocracy’
‘unrestricted and unlimited power’
‘He spared
all their lives’ Pompey and pirates who approached him
‘notion arose among them that the mere
name of Pompey had bought an end to the war’
66BC Lex Manilia
‘Pompey’s power seemed to form the basis for tyranny’
‘innate ambition and love of power’
Cato said in Life of Pompey ‘their alliance, that was
the first and greatest evil for the city’
Pompey ‘had allowed himself to become nothing
more than a puppet in Caesars hands’ -marriage to Julia
Life of P ‘Caesar therefore decided to forfeit the triumph
and go for the consulship’
59BC LoP ‘Bibulus’ reaction was to shut
himself up in his house for 8 months’
LoP ‘Cato was constantly
delivering speeches in the Senate which were full of warning’
Pompey sent ‘armed men’ to kill Demotius- ‘this was the
terrible route Pompey and Crassus took to consulship’ in 70BC
LoP ‘end of the marriage alliance… the city
was gripped by turmoil’
LoP ‘two of them were not satisfied
with the Roman empire’
of the idea to make P dictator ‘ Cato was severely
critical of the idea’
supported P to become ‘sole consul’ ‘for the
sake of Rome, not for Pompey’
‘Catalus told Cicero off for sparring
Caesar when he was vulnerable during the Catiline affair’
LoC ‘There was nothing Cato feared more than a
revolution instigated by the poorer members of society’
‘I insist my wife should be
above suspicion’
‘Caesar was escorted to the consulship
protected and surrounded by the friendship of Crassus and Pompey’
LoC ‘Pompey, as soon as he was married,
filled the forum with armed men and helped the people get Caesar’s laws passed’
53BC Julia’s death LoC ‘the bond that had protected… and
preserved a state of peace and concord had come to an end’
LoC ‘the depth of Pompey’s grief
was matched by Caesars’
56BC Caesar was ‘sending back to Rome
all the surplus gold’ LoP
LoC Cato ‘persuaded the Senate to make Pompey sole consul… more legitimate
form of autocracy might divert him from storming his way into a dictatorship’
‘Caesar demands looked
fair and reasonable’
LoC (Lupercalia festival) ‘Caesar rejected the diadem (from MA), the assembled
people all burst out into applause’
LoMA ‘The most influential man in Rome
at the time was Cicero’
Cicero kept ‘arousing public opinion against Antony, until eventually he persuaded the Senate to
declare him as enemy of the State’
LoMA ‘Caesar (Augustus) had broken off his alliance with Cicero because
he could see he was a partisan of freedom’
Pirates ‘pretended to be stricken by
panic and terror’ at the word ‘Roman’
Cato described as:
inflexible… all together steadfast
‘unprecedented level of fear ‘he treated people fairly and restored
calm to the city’ Caesar
‘view seemed so
humane’ caesar on Catteline
Pompeys marriage to Cornelia was
‘ignoring the plight of the city’
