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Caesar Dictator

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Caesar Dictator 49: Dictator I (to oversee elections)

47: Consul II

Dictator II for a year after Pharsalus

46: Consul III

Dictator III annually renewed for 10 yrs.

45: Consul IV – sole consul – resigned in Fall

Dictator IV

44: Consul V

Dictator in perpetuity 2

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Caesar’s transformation of the Roman Forum

2nd c. BC 1st c. AD

Stambaugh, John E. The Ancient Roman City. John Hopkins University Press, 1988. © John Hopkins University Press. All rights reserved. This content is excluded from our Creative Commons license. For more information, see https://ocw.mit.edu/help/faq-fair-use/. 3

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Cicero, Letter to Atticus 4.16.8

We ‘friends of Caesar’… have spent without any qualms sixty million sesterces towards that monumental work you used to praise so highly – the expansion of the over-crowded Forum, and its extension all the way to the Atrium of Liberty. The private owners of the land would not have sold for a lesser sum.

Aicher, Peter J. Rome Alive: A Source-Guide to the Ancient City, Vol. 1. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2004. © Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. All rights reserved. This content is excluded from our Creative Commons license. For more information, see https://ocw.mit.edu/help/faq-fair-use/.

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VENUS – Anchises

Aeneas – Creusa (or Lavinia)

Ascanius (Iulus)

[ Kings of Alba Longa ]

??? – Numitor Amulius

MARS – Rhea

Romulus Remus

The Julian Family

JULIUS CAESAR 6

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Suetonius, Julius 78

• ‘But it was the following action in particular that roused deadly hatred against him. When the Senate approached him in a body with many highly honorary decrees, he received them before the temple of Venus Genetrix without rising.’

From Suetonius: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Translated by J.C. Rolfe. This material is in the public domain.

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