Roman Power and Civil War

📋 Course Outline

1. Caesar’s dictatorship and cursus honorum
2. Pompey’s career and military campaigns
3. First Triumvirate pact and political agenda
4. Rising tensions and command dispute
5. Road to civil war and failed settlements
6. Rubicon, civil war battles and outcomes
7. Caesar’s clemency and consolidation of power
8. Caesar’s triumphs and dictator timeline
9. Political, administrative and economic reforms
10. Caesar rex debate and cult of rulership
11. Ides of March and assassination conspirators
12. End or beginning of the Republic

📖 1. Caesar’s dictatorship and cursus honorum

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Gaius Julius Caesar : Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman statesman and general whose career culminated in dictatorship and the end of the Republic.
• Cursus honorum : Cursus honorum was the ordered sequence of public offices in the Roman Republic that advanced a politician’s status.
• Pontifex maximus : Pontifex maximus was the chief priestly office in Rome, held by Caesar from 64 to 44 BCE.
• Dictator perpetuo : Dictator perpetuo was a form of dictatorship held for life, which Caesar received in 44 BCE.

📝 Essential Points