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Recommended Reading:
- Powerpoint presentation
- Plutarch’s biographies of Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus
- Plutarch also wrote biographies of all the members of the First Triumvirate: Crassus, Pompey, and Caesar.
- Barry Strauss’s history of Spartacus’s revolt
- The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar
- Adrian Goldsworthy’s dual biography of Antony and Cleopatra
Late Roman Republic – Quiz
- Identify the members of the First Triumvirate.
- Identify the members of the Second Triumvirate.
- In the late second century B.C., Rome’s domestic political culture began a century of turbulence with the careers and assassinations of the ________ brothers.
- What was the impact of the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C.?
- Why was the First Triumvirate formed?
- _________ served an unprecedented five consecutive terms as consul and threatened Roman stability through the raising of a private army loyal to him personally.
- _________ was the victor in the Social War and attempted to restore traditional republican forms of government.
- Crassus, Pompey, Julius Caesar
- Marc Antony, Octavian, Lepidus
- Gracchi
- Octavian defeated Marc Antony and brought the entire Roman Empire under his personal control.
- It was an alliance against the Senate
- Marius
- Sulla