Rise Of Rome

The Rise of the Roman Empire started around 133-30 BCE. During this time, there were three triumvirs, Crassus Gaius Julius Caesar, and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus. When Crassus died in Parthia, in 52 BCE, the Senate appointed Pompey as the sole consul of Rome. This broke the Republican rule where there should have been two consul’s not just one. Caesar refused to resigned his position that was ordered from the Senate and seen the moved as a unjust action to oust him from power. He refused to resigned his military post and disarm his men and instead started a civil war around 49-45 BCE. Caesar defeated Pompey’s army at the Battle of Munda and in 46 BCE, established a dictatorship after taking Rome by force. Although Caesar was assassinated, Octavian, his adoptive son, took over and manage to overcome Lepidus and Anthony to became the first Roman Emperor, thus given the name Augustus by the Senate.
b) How did Virgil’s Aeneid and the various visual arts (architecture and
It showed that, in Rome, there is no honest ability or no reward for hard work. It was a place where there was no longer room for honest men, only liars and paupers. There was no honest ability and no reward for hard work in Rome. The only way to earn the patronage of great men was to learn their guilty secrets. Greeks and Syrians were willing to lie and cheat to oust native Romans from their jobs. Only rich men are believed in their oaths. Living in Rome was expansive and the streets were noisy. Carts moving down the street 24/7 made it impossible to get a quiet sleep. The constant danger from fires or falling houses were common in Rome. Danger from items thrown out of the window, and burglars and bandits. Juvenal criticizes the actions and beliefs of many of his contemporaries, he provided an insight more into the value systems and questions of morality and less into the realities of Roman