Caesar in the senate

This clip is from the HBO Rome series. The series is NOT always historcially correct, therefore, you CAN NOT use it as a source in your work. However, you have many primary and secondary sources you can use to verify what you see in this clip.

some internet resources to explore

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook09.html

the above website is full of priomary sources... Julius Caesar was an author as well as a general!

http://eawc.evansville.edu/essays/ropage.htm

above is a list of various essays and articles that you can search

Timeline of Gaius Julius Ceaser

Basic timeline of Julius Ceasers life that may help with your assignments!

July 13, 100 Caesar's Birth
84 Marries daughter of L. Cornelius Cinna
80-78 Goes to Asia
75 Captured by Pirates
73 Elected Pontifex
69 Cornelia dies
67 Marries Pompeia
65 Elected Aedile
63 Elected Pontifex Maximus
62 Divorces Pompeia
61 Governor of Further Spain
60 Becomes Consul and forms the Triumvirate
59 Consul. Marries Calpurnia
58 Defeats Helvetii and Germans
55 Crosses the Rhine; Invades Britain
54 His daughter, Pompey's wife, dies
53 Crassus killed
52 Clodius murdered; Caesar defeats Vercingetorix
49 Crosses the Rubicon - Civil War begins
48 Pompey murdered
45 Declared dictator for life
44 Ides of March, assassinated

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_time_caesar.htm

HI EVERYONE! its Sara and Catherine here :) We just found the fam tree showing the relationship between Julius Ceasar and L. Cornelius Sulla. Thought it may be interesting to know :)

Battle of Cannae

I mentioned this battle today when we were talking about military defeats. I said that 10,000 Roman soldiers were killed. I was wrong..... 50,000 were killed. That is half the Roman army!

This is a nifty re-enactment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGHge4FQ8aM

Marius' reforms

pro Gracchi vs anti-Gracchi

Where do you sit? Consider all the evidence presented to you and decide which historians have made the right conclusions about the Gracchi brothers......

Tiberius Gracchus

plebeian writers

In light of all you have read so far about patricians and plebeians, why are the historians you know generally plebeians?

Cicero, Juvenal, Martial…… all plebeians.

Why do you think Patricians were not writers? Comments please

(This is Cicero)