From Republic to Empire
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Virtue & Decadence
link to chronology and course of
offices
paterfamilias
Patrician
Plebpatron
client
Economic / Social classes
Punic wars
Carthage, Phoenician colony (Tyre)
Dido's curse
Hamilcar Barca
Haniba'al Barca
Quintus Fabius Maximus, dictator - "Fabian" tactics
Cannae, 216 B.C.
Publius Cornelius Scipio "Africanus"
Numidians
Zama, 202 B.C.
Eastern Mediterranean
Macedonia
Philip
Alexander "the Great" (356-323 B.C.)
Hellenistic kingdoms
"Captive Greece took her barbarian captors captive."
Crisis of virtue > Roman decadence
latifundia
ager publicus
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T. Sempronius Gracchus, 133 B.C.
C. Sempronius Gracchus, 121 B.C.
C. Octavius "Augustus" 27 B.C. - A.D. 14
Roman Republic
Roman Empire
Roman Empire
province < pro-vincia
consul > pro-consul
Virgil's admonition
Others will cast more tenderly in bronze
Their breathing figures, I can well believe,
And bring more lifelike protraits out of marble;
Argue more eloquently, use the pointer
To trace the paths of heaven accurately
And accurately foretell the rising stars.
Roman, remember by your strength to rule
Earth's peoples - for your arts are to be these:
To pacify, to impose the rule of law,
To spare the conquered, battle down the proud.
--Virgil, Aeneid, 6.1145-54
"Captive Greece took her barbarian captors captive."