The three together created the First Triumvirate. Together they had control over the senate and more so control over Rome as a whole. Crassus joined to raise his social status in Roman society and Pompey joined to ensure that his soldiers would always remain loyal to him. As soon as the triumvirate commenced their power was portrayed immensely. Caesar ran and was successful at securing a spot in the consul.
They didn’t like all the vicissitude that Caesar was endeavoring to make to their country. They considered Caesar’s power as a disregard and disrespect to authority, tradition, and Roman rules. Caesar had many occasions to challenge Roman commanders and many of their opponents, which lead to many civil wars. But his decision to cross Rubicon was against the Roman law. Julius Caesar’s zeal and overconfidence that he became invincible in both Rome and battle, because his soldiers resected and doted him; he mentally conceived that he could pursue whatever he wanted.
GLADIATOR Maximus Decimus Meridus was the true heir to the throne of the Roman Empire, and yet everything was ripped away from him in an instant. Everyone he loved was slain and everything he dreamed of was shattered by the jealous son of the former emperor. Gladiator does a good job of showing examples of the reasons Rome declined in real life and also, it portrays scary similarities between Rome and modern America. Gladiator also illustrates the social, political, and economic events that eventually toppled the Roman Empire. During Pax Romana the social state of Rome switched.
Romulus became the prominent figure of the beginnings of Roman history when he killed the tyrant Amulius, and with the help of his brother, Remus, allowed his grandfather Numitor to seize the throne of the ancient kingdom of Alba once again. Both brothers decided to build cities in the areas in which they had been raised as kinds. Livy says, “But at this point…developed and ugly fight” (Livy 1.3-5, pg. 10) which means that their family curse lead to an “ugly fight” and this was considered as being immoral because of the use of the word “ugly”. With this phrase, Livy foreshadows the events that followed this “ugly fight” between Romulus and Remus.
After the triumvirs mutually decided to divide the Roman Empire, Antony took charge of the eastern provinces, where he fell in love with and later married the charming Queen Cleopatra of Egypt. He was finally defeated and killed by Octavian in the last civil war that led to the final collapse of the Roman
In Antigone, by Sophocles, The characterization Creon proves the quote to be true through his irrational decisions and edicts. His abuse of power is shown through Creon by forbidding anyone to give Polyneices an honorable burial and not listening to the prophet Teiresias. When Oedipus, King of Thebes, dies, his throne is left for his two sons Eteocles and Polyneices. When Eteocles refuses to share the throne, the two brothers go to war. Both are killed in the struggle for power.
Octavian, the grandnephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar, had made himself a central military figure during the chaotic period following Caesar's assassination. In 43 BC at the age of twenty he became one of the three members of the Second Triumvirate, a political alliance with Marcus Lepidus and Mark Antony. [1] Octavian and Antony defeated the last of Caesar's assassins in 42 BC at the Battle of Philippi, although after this point, tensions began to rise between the two. The triumvirate ended in 32 BC, torn apart by the competing ambitions of its members: Lepidus was forced into exile and Antony, who had allied himself with his lover Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt, committed suicide in 30 BC following his defeat at the Battle of Actium (31
Despite this treason, he was granted full pardon from Julius Caesar who had always held him in high esteem. It is not clearly understood by history as to why Brutus was granted such preferential treatment by Caesar. It may be inconsequential as Caesar’s fate was most likely sealed regardless of the involvement of Brutus, however, Brutus was on of the key conspirators in the plot to depose Caesar and reinstate the Roman Republic. Marcus Junius Brutus was born around 85 BCE to a Roman family held in the highest regard by the citizens of the Republic. His great ancestor, Lucius Junius Brutus, is credited with founding the Republic in 509 BCE by deposing the last Tarquin king.
Alexander's empire did not hold. The generals who succeeded him lacked his vision, and they spent the remainder of their careers fighting over the spoils of his conquests. Seleucus gained control over Persia, Mesopotamia, and Syria, where an empire under his name would rule for many years, and Ptolemy established a dynasty of even longer standing in Egypt. His descendants ruled until 30 B.C, when the last of his line, Cleopatra was defeated by a new and even bigger empire,
Julius Caesar Summary How It All Goes Down When the play opens, Julius Caesar has just returned to Rome after defeating the sons of Pompey in battle. Before we go any further, let's pause for a brief Roman history lesson. Pompey (a.k.a. "Pompey the Great") was a member of the "first triumvirate," and he and Caesar used to share power over Rome. Then Caesar and Pompey got into a big fight.