Quiz # 3 Flashcards
The Revolt of Mithradates
Poison King: Mithradates
Mithras: God of Death/Ressurection
King of Pontus (Modern day Turkey)
Surprise attack/rebellion in Eastern Rome
- Inspired by Alexander the Great
- Believed to be the reincarnation of him
about 80,000 deaths
Mithradates => microdoses posion to build a tolerance
- paranoid someone will try to kill him
- Eventually commits suicide
The Dictatorship of Sulla
General of Rome
REBELLION
Uprising lead by Mithradates the 6th
Choosing Cities to make an example of Cornith and Athens by using total warfare
Becomes Rich
Senate sent Sulla–> thought he was too powerful –> Outlawed him –> scared of his power
Marches to Rome and Captures it
Becomes the first Self-appointed dictator of Rome and is the defacto end the republic
- promoted mob violence via proscription
Objectives:
- Public Works Projects –> Tabularium Remains today
- Regulation of Grain (Wooden tokens for food aid)
- Colonization of his troops -> Redistribution of land
Retires in 79 BCE
The First Triumvirate
Wanted Power
- Pompey the Great: Defeated the Pirates, Conquest of Judea, Millions to Roman Treasure
- Marcus Licinius Crassus: Defeated slave rebellion of Spartacus (753BC), Slumlord
- Julius Caeser: Well connected, Extensive Wealth 3 clientage of Rome, had epilepsy (falling down sickness), Self-appointed Dictator.
The Dictatorship of Julius Caeser
DATE: 48-44BC
- Caeser plans the conquest of Parthia and Britain
- Reforms of the calendar and record-keeping
- Plot forms to assassinate him in the senate
- Dictator Perpetuo (46 BC) –> Perpetuo means forever
Murdered by Senate 15 March 44 BC
The Second Triumvirate
- Mark Antony: rewrites couple things in a will -> Capital offense, wrote a speech based on Caesar’s will, death of Caesar made into a triumph,
- Octavius Caesar: 63 BC - AD 14BC -> Nephew of Julius Caeser, First Roman emperor
- Marcus Lepidus (c. 89 BC - AD 12) –> Close Ally of Julius Caesar, Roman Patrican and Statesmen
The Triumph of Octavius (Augustus)
- Takes Egypt as a providence of Romes
- Gets rid of democracy
- Redesign Rome
- Beat Mark Antony -
- Super Rich
What are the goals of the Second Triumvirate
- Kill the Conspirators: some refused to submit -> Suicide
- Restore Law and Order; prevent civil unrest
- “reform” the republic
Explain the Killing of Caeser
- 23 stab wounds
- Neck wound was what killed him
- Marcus Brutus (wife had affair with Caesar)
- “You too son” => Caesar said to Brutus
Caesar trying to cover his head==> not being humiliated
Who was Marcus Crassus
- Part of the 1st Triumvirate
- Given a command to wage war in Parthia
- Battle of Carrhae (53BC)
- 3 legions are annihilated
- Crassus and his son are killed –> scandel
The Conquest of Crassus
- Given Commmnad of 40,000 trops for conquest of Gallia and Germania = Modern day France and a portion of Germany (58-52BC)
- Caesar composes two lengthy memoirs: The War in Gaul; The Civil War
What was the most important characteristic for Leaders
Charisma
Battle of Actium
- Triumvirate comes to legal end: Octavian declares war on cleopatra
- Battle of Actium (30 BC)- Egypt is Roman Province (end of Hellenistic Age)
- Octavian is now sole Ruler of the Roman World –> 44 years
Cleopatra runs away from the battle
Antony chases Cleopatra - abandoning his army
How did Octavian deal with Antony and Cleopatra and What happened with the kids
Antony kills himself thinking that Cleopatra killed herself.
Antony and Cleopatra get a proper burial
Julius Caesar Iiligemate child is strangled
Octavian takes the other three kids and raises them as his own.
The Triumviral Settlement (59-53 BC)
- Pompey the Great
A. Stays in Rome Resettles his veterans on confiscated land
B. Takes control of grain distribution
C. Undertakes public works projects
Who did Crassus defeat in the Slave Rebellion in Capua
Spartacus
How many years did the Senate give Pompey to defeat the Pirates
5 years
ONLY took 2 Months
What did Pompey do after the defeat of Pirates
Stayed in Rome
What was Julius Caesar known as in the first Triumvirate
The mediator
Who was Julius Caesar?
Public Speaker
Falling down sickness
Wealthy
Well connected
What did Caeserdo in England
Go to England
could not because men were tired
Becoming more popular–> conquering different
Sending money and slaves to Rome
What brings Caesar to Rubicon
outlaw
needs to come back without miliary
Crossing the Rubicon is a declaration of War against Rome
Who flees after Caeser comes back
Pompey –> Greece
What year does Pompey Flee
49
What are the names of Memiors Caeser wrote
The war on Gaul
The Civil War
What is the name of the war between Pompey and Caeser
Battle of Pharsalus in 48BC
- Defeated Pompey
- Pompey flees to Alexandria
- Kills Pompey because Caeser would be a emeny to Alexandria
Who coined the phrase Sic Semper Tryannus:
John Willkes
Who was the narrative historian
- Born in N. Africa (Algeria), son of Roman Offical
- Served as imperial secretary to Trajan (98-117) and Hadrian (117-138); dismissed for misconduct with empress (Sabina)
- Had access to now-lost primary sources in Imperial Library
Wrote about Caesar
What was the Trick on Mark Antony
Antony marrying Octava -> knowing he was going to have affiar with Cleopatra
Wage war on Antony –> Battle of Acrium
How did Antony kill himself
Stabbed himself but not falling on own sword but stabbed his rib and took hours to die
How does Cleopatra kill herself and Why
Either suicide or strangled
Didn’t want to kept prisoner
