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Dec 9, 2009 · How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic (HBO Rome Season 1 Episode 3)It's Jan 10, 49 BCE Gaius Julius Caesar has lead his troops across the Rubicon River...
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- Tungsten Gigio
On 7 January 49 BCE, the Senate demanded Julius Caesar to hand over his ten well-trained legions to a new governor. Caesar heard the news in Ravenna, and kne...
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- Sun of Antiquity
- The Crumbling of The Republic
- Caesar in Gaul
- ‘The Die Is Cast’
Since the celebrated general (and major influence on Caesar) Gaius Marius had reformed the Roman legions along more professional lines by paying them himself, soldiers had increasingly owed their loyalty to their generals rather than the more abstract idea of a citizen republic. As a result, powerful men became more powerful still by fielding their...
These powerful men had little need of the senate, and in 58 BC Caesar used their influence to secure a command in the Alps which, by giving him years of freedom and 20,000 men to command, broke every law of the Senate. Caesar used the following five years to become one of the most brilliant and successful commanders in history. The huge, multi-raci...
In 50 BC, Caesar was ordered to disband his army and return to Rome, where he was banned from running for a second consulship and would be on trial for treason and war crimes following his unlicensed conquests. With this in mind, it is hardly surprising that the proud and ambitious general, who knew that he enjoyed the adulation of the people, deci...
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On January 10, 49 B.C.E., General Julius Caesar entered Roman territory by crossing the Rubicon, a stream in what is now Northern Italy. In crossing the Rubicon, Caesar began a civil war that signaled the end of the Roman Republic. Julius Caesar was a very popular military and political leader who expanded the borders of the Roman Republic ...
May 26, 2024 · Caesar chose to rebel. In January 49 BC, he ordered his army to cross the Rubicon River, the formal northern boundary of Italy. Crossing the Rubicon with an army was forbidden – and Caesar‘s move was a deliberate, unmistakable act of defiance against the authority of the Senate and the Republic. Once the deed was done, civil war was ...
Jul 12, 2023 · On January 10, 49 B.C.E., Julius Caesar and his army crossed the Rubicon, a stream separating Gaul from the Roman Republic. This action would prompt a civil war in Rome that led to Caesar gaining power over the region and establishing the Roman Empire. Today, the idiom “crossing the Rubicon” is a way to express that someone is passing the ...
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