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    alliances during the crisis of the Roman Republic. The informal First Triumvirate of Julius Caesar, Pompey the Great, and Marcus Licinius Crassus was a...
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    Various lists regarding the political institutions of ancient Rome are presented. Each entry in a list is a link to a separate article. Categories included...
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    The Second Triumvirate was an extraordinary commission and magistracy created for Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian to give them practically absolute...
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    In modern historiography, ancient Rome encompasses the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC, the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), Roman...
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    The First Triumvirate was an informal political alliance among three prominent politicians in the late Roman Republic: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Marcus...
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  • The military history of ancient Rome is inseparable from its political system, based from an early date upon competition within the ruling elite. Two consuls...
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  • Byzantine Empires. To read about the background of these events, see Ancient Rome and History of the Byzantine Empire. Following tradition, this timeline...
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    save Sextus Pompey in Sicily. Upon returning to Rome, the triumvirate repartitioned rule of Rome's provinces among themselves, with Antony as the clear...
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  • regular duties of Roman magistrates. The term triumvirate is most commonly used by historians of ancient Rome to refer to two political alliances during...
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    Crassus's death destabilized the Triumvirate. While Caesar was fighting in Gaul, Pompey proceeded with a legislative agenda for Rome that revealed that he was...
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    Republic 1946–present The history of Rome includes the history of the city of Rome as well as the civilisation of ancient Rome. Roman history has been influential...
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    formed the Second Triumvirate to defeat the assassins of Caesar. Following their victory at the Battle of Philippi (42 BC), the Triumvirate divided the Roman...
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    Armorica, and a rebellion in Noricum. Not for the first time in Rome's history, a triumvirate of mutually distrustful rulers proved unstable. In 427, Felix...
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    means strength. Rome has also been called in ancient times simply "Urbs" (central city), from urbs roma, or identified with its ancient Roman initialism...
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    battle occurred on 9 June. Crassus, a member of the First Triumvirate and the wealthiest man in Rome, had been enticed by the prospect of military glory and...
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  • of ancient Rome. In the first episode Larry Lamb visits Rome and describes how the Roman Empire was created by Romulus, using the works of ancient Roman...
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    ancient Greece and ancient Rome known together as the Greco-Roman world, centered on the Mediterranean Basin. It is the period during which ancient Greece...
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    Julius Caesar (category Deaths by stabbing in ancient Rome)
    March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his...
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  • Masters of Rome is a series of historical novels by Australian author Colleen McCullough, set in ancient Rome during the last days of the old Roman Republic;...
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    refer to state-approved murder or banishment. The term originated in Ancient Rome, where it included public identification and official condemnation of...
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    of speeches. He was proscribed as an enemy of the state by the Second Triumvirate and consequently executed by soldiers operating on their behalf in 43 BC...
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    Plebeians (category Social classes in ancient Rome)
    In ancient Rome, the plebeians or plebs were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other...
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    the interim, Rome was governed by a reactionary "Red Triumvirate" of cardinals. French soldiers propped up the papal administration in Rome until they were...
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    Crassus and Caesar in the informal political alliance known as the First Triumvirate, cemented by Pompey's marriage with Caesar's daughter, Julia. After the...
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    Maximus (2004). Memorable deeds and sayings : one thousand tales from ancient Rome. Translated by Walker, Henry J. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. p. 205...
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    (Latin: provincia, pl. provinciae) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman...
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  • in the two men reconciling. With Lepidus, they then formed the Second Triumvirate. A group of senators, calling themselves the liberatores and led by Marcus...
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  • Lepidus, commonly known as the Second Triumvirate, was renewed for a five-year term in 38 BC. But the triumvirate broke down when Octavian saw Caesarion...
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  • terms "triumvirate" and "duumvirate". At the beginning of Italian Fascism, they were a group of four leaders that led Benito Mussolini's March on Rome in...
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  • Tacitus, who ignores Velleius, as do all ancient authorities". Ancient Rome portal Ancient history Ancient literature De Bello Africo De Bello Alexandrino...
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