The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Cicero's speeches give a vivid picture of a highly organized system for distributing largesse to the voters in various forms, fr ...

Right and a Left by the words 'Optimates' and 'Populares' could in fact be older than the days of Sulla, for the programmes and ...

dispensation to stand for the consulship without having held the lower offices. Now, after the popular measures of his consulshi ...

Cicero, Pompey's exact contemporary, presents a similarly complex, if less sinister, political image. By conviction he was a con ...

outclassed by Pompey and Caesar; he was rich, but hardly more so than Pompey when he returned home with his eastern booty. Like ...

C. Julius Caesar, the conqueror of Gaul and dictator of 48-44 BC. He rose to power as a politician 'of the left', but achieved h ...

he prosecuted Rabirius, first by an obsolete procedure dating from the time of the kings, then by trial before the popular assem ...

they felt to be the increase in Rome's power and wealth. The enormous opportunities for ruthless self- aggrandizement by individ ...

Painting Of A Frightened Girl: detail of a mural frieze at Pompeii (c 60-50 B.C.). This famous composition, consisting of twenty ...

Tablinum Of The House Of M. Lucretius Fronto, at Pompeii (c. AD 40-50). The rich but delicate wall- decoration marks the break-u ...

The expediency of conciliating Rome's subjects, however, had been grasped by intelligent men of differing political complexion, ...

impressing the body of the Senate with his sweet reasonableness. From now on, however, he showed how little he could be deflecte ...

Model Of Theatre And Porticoes Of Pompey In Rome. Pompey inaugurated the first permanent stone theatre in Rome in 55 B.C., perpe ...

Civil War Meanwhile a change in the method of appointing provincial governors not only resulted in the dispatch of the reluctant ...

problems of the Republic was the existence of statesmen or a statesman of their calibre who could serve as a model of conduct to ...

Shops in the Forum Julium, Caesar's answer to Pompey's theatre and porticoes. Begun in 51 B.C. to provide a much-needed enlargem ...

jurisdiction. Hence the Ides of March. After Caesar's death one of his intimates, Gaius Matius, was to lament: 'If he, for all h ...

The Poets Of The Late Republic (By Robin Nisbet) Lucretius Early in 54 B.C. Cicero ended a letter to his brother with a note o ...

liberated oppressed mankind from the lowering menace of religion. In a typically Roman metaphor we are told how the philosopher' ...

show how far Epicurus was from the popular misconception of the epicure (above, p. 372). Fame and riches do no more for the mind ...