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Rome: Seduction of Power

1. Sulla

   1. 82 BC

      1. Sulla camps outside Rome

      2. Asks Senate for land for veterans

      3. Senate rejects

      4. Sulla takes Rome, proscribes his enemies.

      5. "Husbands, Sons, and Wives slaughtered."

      6. Military Anarchy.

   2. 86 BC

      1. Sulla Retires

2. Cinncinatus

   1. granted Dictator to fight an Italic tribe

   2. After winning, he retired and went back to tilling.

3. Consul

   1. extremely compeitive

   2. try to create a bandwagon

   3. appear to be winner

4. The Gracchi

   1. Gaius Gracchus

   2. Tiberius Gracchus

      1. Government should divide and redistribute land

         1. Land reform

      2. Breaks the class limit

      3. Breaking the patronage system

      4. Murdered and Dumped into the River Tiber

         1. a fit death for a radical figure

      5. Technically an old plebian family

   3. Tiberius' journey through Spain aroused him.

      1. The people asked him to recover the land for the people

      2. Recover the conquested land for the people who deserved it.

   4. When the Citizen soldiers came back, they didn't recognize the nation they left

      1. Citizens lost land to Rich

      2. Citizens lost work to Slaves

   5. Sons of Cornelia

      1. Grandsons of Scipio Africanius

      2. "I want to be the mother of my sons"

5. Contradictions of Rome

   1. Elections were always rigged

   2. Women got no vote

   3. Political Equality? Fuck that shit

   4. Most Destructive Tradition in Rome

      1. Patronage

         1. The Poor gather in the courtyards of the rich

         2. In other words, trade votes for work

6. Competeting Images

   1. Cinncinatus

      1. Reality

      2. Restraint

      3. Self-Sacrifice

   2. Romulus

      1. Legend

      2. Feriousity

      3. Nastiness

      4. Almost Feral

7. Julius Caesar

   1. Ambitious

   2. "Son of Venus"

   3. Knew of the avenues of power

      1. Military success

      2. Power of the People

         1. meaning, Prejudice

         2. Bloodshed

         3. Brutality

         4. In 48, Banquet of 20k men, they voted him dictator.

         5. in 44, Caesar asked to be Dictator for life

         6. Valued Caesarian provisions over Empty Republicanism

   4. The monstrosity of his character is covered in his jovial character.

   5. Caesar's Reform

      1. Land to his Soldiers

      2. Grain to the Poor

   6. Fights the civil war

      1. Pompey

      2. Caesar

   7. Cleopatra

      1. convinced caesar to help her overthrow her brother.

      2. Beautiful

      3. Powerful

      4. Greek

         1. Macedonian

8. Mark Antony

   1. murdered Cicero because Cicero supported Octavian

   2. Cicero wrote a serious of speeches

      1. The Philippics

      2. Only delievered one before being assassinated

9. Octavian

   1. after Actium, undisputed ruler.

   2. Emperor, Imperium for Life

   3. Patronage

      1. obligations

      2. mafia boss

      3. huge money bonuses

   4. To the Poor

      1. Increased Grain handout

      2. Staged greatest games ever

      3. Built Aquaducts for water

   5. The Senate voted him Imperium for Life

   6. Stability

      1. Augustus was obsessed with his own death and succession

      2. Pax Romana

         1. 40 years of Augustan Rule

   7. Julia had serious daddy issues

      1. Slept with most men of Rome

      2. After three awful arranged marriages

      3. Julia exiled to Elbe

         1. After sexing up the entirety of Rome

   8. Next Emporers

      1. Plagued by insecurity

      2. Tiberius

         1. manipulated by Sijunus to give him the throne

         2. 31 AD, Tiberius is tricked.

      3. Caligula

         1. Brash

         2. Insane

         3. Horse elected to Consul

            1. I value the Senate as much as my Horse

         4. Assassinated by Praetorian Guard

      4. Cladius

         1. Brittania taken by Trajan

      5. Nero

         1. Decadent

         2. Imperious

         3. Insane

         4. Blood-lusting

         5. Nero's response to the fire?

            1. He built a massive 50 acre palace

            2. Private Zoo

            3. Rumors start that he started the Fire

               1. Christianity functioned as scapegoats for the fire

               2. It didn't work

         6. Things he enjoyed

            1. Theater

               1. Acting

               2. Imagine if the President was playing in dirty, pubby bars, music.

            2. Music

         7. Power to the People

            1. Made handouts

            2. Built public baths

            3. He becomes a charioteer

            4. Then he becomes a singer

               1. He forced one to sit through the whole thing

               2. Bribed the judges

               3. Men killed themselves in the theater

               4. Women birthed children in the theater

         8. Aggripina

            1. Overriding Ambition to make son Emporer

            2. Jeered his musical talents

            3. Finally, he murdered her.

            4. Hitler??!?!?

         9. Death

            1. "What an artist, the world is losing"

            2. His eyes, they are a-light with madness

            3. before committing Suicide

10. Widespread Literacy

    1. Contradicts the 95% poverty figure

    2. More like 80% really