The First Triumvirate Flashcards
was between
Caesar, Crassus and Pompey
Why Pompey joined it
hoped Caesar would use his influence as consul to secure the settlement of his actions in the overseas provinces
Why Caesar joined it
By supporting Pompeys plans his own influence would be increased
Why Crassus joined
hoped to reach a position he had never attained on his own using Pompey’s prestige and Caesar’s consular power
what was done to strengthen the Triumvirate
Pompey married Julia Caesar’s daughter
why was Caesar in a strong bargaining position
both Crassus and Pompey were being blocked by the senate
Caesar and Cicero’s relationship
Caesar was trying to win Cicero over
consistently tried to gain his support
they had mutual respect and regard for each other
Why Cicero wanted to join the TRiumvirate
would have a close connection with Caesar and Pompey
Why Cicero did not join the TRiumvirate
it stood against everything he had stood for as Consul
Caesars Consulship
59Bc
with Bibulus
who was Bibulus
Consul with Caesar in 59BC
Strong supporter of the optimates
firmly opposed to Caesar
success for Pompey in 59BC
Land was finally found for his veterans
and the Eastern settlement was agreed
Senate’s attempts to stop Caesar’s power growing
proposed that after his consulship his province should be the supervision of the ‘woods and paths of Italy’
How to Caesar react to his future province
employed the Tribune Vatinus to pass a law to give him the province of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum, Transalpine Gaul was later added to this
Illegality from Pompey and Caesar
Pompey controlled things by force using his soldiers
Bibulus was abused
Clodius’s aim for Tribuneship
was working closely with Crassus
hoping for the 58BC Tribuneship
was adopted into a plebeian family for this to happen
Cicero and Pompey (near his exile)
“Pompey, my former friend, has ruined his good reputation”
Pompey asserts that Clodius wont lift a finger against Cicero
Cicero and CAesar (near his exile)
Caesar kept offering him posts of responsibility as he knows Cicero could convince Pompey to leave the Triumvirate
Cicero consistently refused, Caesar must have decided to support Clodius’s plan to get rid of Cicero
Triumvirate happened in
roughly 60BC (was before Caesar’s consulship)
Offers made by Caesar to Cicero
to join his officers
To go on a state funded mission
