After this defeat Pompey fled to Egypt‚ under the rule of the Ptolemy family‚ in a last ditch attempt to rebuild his forces. Unfortunately for Pompey‚ the king of Egypt‚ Ptolemy XII‚ thought it would be an easy way to gain Caesar’s favor by beheading Pompey and giving the head to Caesar when he arrived. Caesar‚ who arrived to find his son-in-law’s head in a basket‚ was not amused with Ptolemy’s decision to kill a distinguished Roman general and statesman and ended Ptolemy’s control over his own kingdom
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sympathetic stance toward Cato and Pompey comparing to Caesar. In the second book‚ Cato was introduced as a heroic figure who decided to side with Pompey‚ the lesser of two evils (“Lucan - Ancient Rome”). Furthermore‚ both characters stood strong with Stoic ideas while the rest of the book is full of Fate and Fortune as Gods and characters consulted the oracles to learn about the future. For example‚ Cato cited the Stoic principles when he refused to consult an oracle. When Pompey died‚ his death was described
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Rome‚ Italy was a dangerous city around 100 B.C.‚ did not know how to manage their power and size. Gaius Julius Caesar was born on July 12‚ 100 B.C. in Rome‚ Italy. Caesar was murdered by his own senators on March 15‚ 44 B.C. His father was also named Gaius Julius Caesar and his mother was Aurelia Cotta‚ they raised him into Roman politics and as he grew up‚ he turned against the nobility. Julius had three marriages; his first wife was to Cornelia in 84 B.C. and 8 years later in 76 B.C. they had
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Gaius Julius Caesar lived from 100- 44 BC and was a prominent person in the last few decades of the Roman Empire. He was skilled as a speaker and writer‚ an intelligent politician and fantastic general‚ but he was also very brutal in his chase of selfish goals. These goals were not only having complete power over the Roman republic‚ but also credit as being a god. Caesar was born in 102 or 100 BCE into the ancient patrician family of the Iulii who claimed ancestry from Aeneas of Troy‚ one of the
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Soon after Caesar had defeated Pompey Rome became split between the Romans who supported Caesar and the ones who despised him. The tribunes who hated him soon came up with a terrible plan to kill him. They desperately needed Brutus to be on their side but‚ it could come at a huge cost. Brutus was a man of the people so everyone loved him. If the tribunes had the support of Brutus‚ then they would have the support of Roman people. They had wrote him three letters to be placed in three different places
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successful victory of the 8-year war in Gaul‚ Caesar was ready to return to Rome with motivation to be Dictator for life. When he crossed the Rubicon River with his army he declared war with the Roman Republic. The Romans were led by Caesar’s old partner Pompey the Great‚ the most successful General in all of Rome and also Dictator. The 4-year war ended with yet another victory under Caesar’s belt and the
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leader of the Roman military and led this country to many victories. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of Caesar’s struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome. This is a conflict that spanned the entire Roman world‚ from Gaul and the countries of Spain‚ Asia and Africa. The Civil War was a war between Julius Caesar and Pompey. The war began in January 49 BC and went on and lasted until the year 45 BC. At the beginning of the war a letter was read out loud to the senate
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Sara Schwartz History of Civilization Gaius Julius Caesar Julius Caesar served as a key ruler in creating the Roman Empire. He is considered one of the world’s greatest generals and a wise politician. He took opportunities and used them to their fullest for self improvement. Characteristics such as confidence and charisma made Caesar a born leader. Over the course of his lifetime he flew through the political ladder in the Roman Republic and set forth a new way of ruling as a dictator
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to tire out Pompey’s army by continuously moving his camp‚ forcing Pompey and men to move as well (Caesar 151). Caesar and Pompey were at a stalemate for some time. Pompey refused to engage Caesar in battle‚ but when they finally did fight at Dyrrachium‚ it ended with Pompey as the victor‚ but it was not a decisive victory. When the two generals finally did meet for the final battle‚ Caesar was the victor. It is recorded that Pompey lost fifteen-thousand men and twenty-four thousand were captured.
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Roman politics. Caesar progressed himself within the Roman political strict system‚ becoming quaestor ‚ aedile and praetor. In 61 and 60 BC he acted as a governor of the Roman province of España (Spain). Back in Rome in 60‚ Caesar made a pact with Pompey and Crassus‚ who tried to helped him to get elected as consul for the year 59 BC. The next year he was appointed governor of Roman Gaul where he stayed for eight years‚ adding the entire modern France and Belgium to the Roman empire‚ and making Rome
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