"From Village to Empire:

A Brief History of the Roman Empire"

Spring 2018

Week 3

Veni, vidi, vici

cca 114-101 B.C. Cimbri, Teutones, Jugurtha

107 B.C. Marius

82-79 B.C. Sulla

73-71 B.C. Spartacus

60 B.C. Pompey, Crassus, Caesar

49 B.C. Caesar

Gaius Marius (157 - 86 B.C.)

novus homo

aunt GJC

military record

Jugurtha, Cimbri, Teutones

107 B.C. (consul)

Cimbri, Teutones (114-101 B.C.)

novus homo

aunt GJC

military record

Jugurtha, Cimbri, Teutones

107 B.C. (consul)

Marian reforms (army)

Marian reforms

army of clients

Social War (91 B.C. – 87 B.C.)

socius

Spartacus

morituri te salutant

73-71 B.C.

slavery

gladiators (gladio)

Crassus, Pompey

Mithridates (88 B.C. – 63 B.C.)

provincial tax collectors

Sulla (Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix)

88 B.C. (consul)

Rome, dictator (82-79 B.C.)

"proscription"

reforms

client-patron to the military

Gnaeus Pompey

More people worship the rising than setting sun

Spartacus

70 B.C. (consul)

Magnus

pirates, Asia Minor

Cicero

consul 63 B.C.

Catilina

Pompey, Crassus, Caesar (60 B.C.)

Caesar (58-49 B.C.)

Rome

Gaius Julius Caesar

Alea iacta est (49 B.C.)

49-44 B.C.

dictator perpetuo

July, Julian calendar

15 March 44 B.C.

Gaius Octavius (Octavian)

grandnephew

Mark Antony, Lepidus, Octavian (43 B.C.)

Philippi 42 B.C.

Augustus 27 B.C. (princeps)

Augustan age