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| | Historical background on Julius Caesar - All Julius Caesar |
 | | Mommsen was one of the founders of the liberal Deutsche Fortschrittspartei (German Progressive Party) and cultivated a bottomless hatred for the conservative Prussian nobility, and his view of the fall of the Roman Republic was coloured by his deep-rooted disillusionment with German liberal politics. | | | In his reconstruction of the events, the optimates and populares were not political parties (as Mommsen had thought): these words signified two approaches to legitimacy. | | | This second conspiracy was discovered by the consul Cicero, who had Catilina's followers executed at the instigation of Cato the Younger, a representant of the traditionalist wing of the optimates. |
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http://www.alljuliuscaesar.bravehost.com/historical-background.html
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| | Article about "Carbo" in the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 |
| | He subsequently went over to the optimates, and (when consul in 120) successfully defended Lucius Opimius, the murderer of Gaius Gracchus, when he was impeached for the murder of citizens without a trial, and even went so far as to say that Gracchus had been justly slain. | | | Carbo was suspected of having been concerned in the sudden death of Scipio (129), if not his actual murderer. | | | He was impeached by Licinius Crassus on a similar charge, and, feeling that he bad nothing to hop for from the optimates and that his condemnation was certain, he committed suicide. |
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http://fixedreference.org/en/20040424/wikipedia/Carbo
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| | Roman civiliation, Roman history |
| | The optimates might have maintained their control of Roman domestic politics if it weren't for the fact they completely mishandled Roman foreign policy and military operations in North Africa, Macedonia and Gaul. | | | While complete cynicism is probably too extreme a position, it is fair to say that most populares were less interested in improving the lot of the populus than in using the popularity they gained by espousing reform to achieve a position of political superiority over other members of the elite. | | | Marius, in his willingness to appease the optimates went so far as to order the arrest of Equitius (but Saturninus' supporters broke him out of jail). |
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http://abacus.bates.edu/~mimber/Rciv/1st.cen.htm
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| | Althusius: Politica: XXXVIII |
| | The Jesuit Beccaria proceeds further and denies that there are any orders or optimates. | | | If there are no ephors, then public defenders and deliverers should be constituted ad hoc by the people itself.... | | | Subjects abandoned by their prince who does not defend them when he should can have recourse to another prince.... |
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http://www.constitution.org/alth/alth_38.htm
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| | The First Triumvirate |
| | In 59 the triumvirs prevailed in the political struggle against the optimates. | | | It has come into existence because the three members had each been obstructed by the extreme optimates under the leadership of Cato. | | | Cato also was arranged to be removed - to supervise the annexation of Cyprus, which he accepted from early 58 to 56 - He did it because it was a good opportunity for him financially - but also they went because they were afraid that their opposition would lead to civil war. |
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http://www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk/roman/essays/1stTriumvirate.htm
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| | RISE OF SULLA , AND RUIN OF THE DEMOCRATS & SAMNITES! |
| | The remaining Optimates flocked to his camp and the people, weary of the savagery of the democrats, exhibited little or no support for the now suddenly, increasingly forlorn and abandoned, Populares. | | | I believe, if memory serves, you are in error: "Democratic government of the Optimates" would I believe be the democratic government of the Populares. | | | Lucius Cornelius Cinna, who had been a rather lackluster officer in the social wars was nominally the leader of the discontented Populares. |
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http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=47730
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| | Optimates emerged as leader to the opposition of the Graccian party. | | | The senate was divided into two parties the Optimates ("aristocrats") and the Populares ("democrats"). | | | Most likely it was a direct response to the underlying socioeconomic causes of the recent slave uprising in Sicily; the displacement of the small farmer, who was the backbone of the Roman army, had reached crisis proportions, and the results were all too visible in the mass of former ploughmen gravitating to the city. |
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http://www.gracchus.esmartweb.com/paper.htm
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| | Roman senate |
| | , who combined the bloodiest illegality with the strictest defense of the senate (which he raised to 600 members), such a claim by optimates was hypocritical and cynical. | | | The leaders of the senate became also the leaders of the most reactionary group and would yield on no point, economic or political. | | | The ruin of the optimates and the senate was accomplished in the proscription of 43 B.C. after Caesar's assassination. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0844409.html
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| | Julius Caesar |
| | The optimates, led by Quintus Lutatius Catulus and Lucius Licinius Lucullus, were chiefly men whose careers had been made by Sulla. | | | The second attack upon the city was carried our by Marius' enemy Sulla, leader of the optimates, in 82 BC on the latter's return from the East. | | | In the Roman political world of the sixties the dominance of the optimates was challenged by Pompey and Crassus. |
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http://www.studyworld.com/julius_caesar.htm
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| | TEMPLE OF JULIUS CAESAR |
| | By the following year all Optimate forces had been defeated and the Mediterranean world pacified. | | | This party supported agrarian reform and was opposed by the reactionary Optimates, a senatorial faction. | | | This identified him with his uncle's extremist politics, and his marriage in 84 BC to Cornelia, the daughter of Marius's associate, Cinna, further confirmed him as a radical. |
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http://sangha.net/messengers/Caesar.htm
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| | New Optimates: Helping to Advance the Revolution in Media Affairs |
| | After all, the last thing this country needs is political opponents retreating into their own separate "echo chambers," where group-think is the order of the day. | | | And people were killed--many by machete--at a pace that the Nazis would have envied. | | | New Optimates: Helping to Advance the Revolution in Media Affairs |
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http://optimates.blogspot.com
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| | C. Sallustii Crispi, De Bello Catilinario et Jugurthino |
| | Milo slew Clodius on a public road: he was accused by the populares, and defended by the optimates; but the judges, who could not allow such an act of open violence to escape unpunished, condemned, and sentenced him to exile. | | | Caius Sallustius Crispus, according to the statement of the ancient chronologer Hieronymus, was born in B. 86, at Amiternum, in the country of the Sabines (to the north-east of Rome), and died four years before the battle of Actium — that is, in B.C. 34 or 35. | | | The other censor, L. Piso, did not protect either Sallust, or any of the others who shared the same fate with him, against this act of partiality. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext05/debcj10h.htm
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| | romanhistory |
| | Cicero's optimates (boni) and populares are not partes but descriptions of people who engage in politics in different ways | | | Libertas, however, means "license" when used by an optimate to refer to the people. | | | boni = (good men) what the senatorial old boys called each other = optimates |
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http://www.uvm.edu/~bsaylor/rome/politvocab.html
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| | optimates |
| | The Cameron Leadership is the new place for news about David Cameron and Cameron’s leadership. | | | The reason posting has been so light on optimates for the past week is that me and a few fellow bloggers have launched a new blog. | | | This theme, optimates, was designed by Vault9 and makes use of code/images by: Michael Heilemann, Kevin Potts |
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http://www.fluentradical.co.uk/blog
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| | Optimates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The optimates favored the nobiles (noble families) and opposed the ascension of 'new men' (plebeians, usually provincials, whose family had no former political experience) into Roman politics. | | | Optimates ('Good Men') were the aristocratic faction of the later Roman Republic. | | | The optimate cause reached its peak under the dictatorship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (81 BC–79 BC). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimates
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| | PlanetPapers - Explain the formation and the break down of the First Triumvirate |
| | This suggests Pompey’s political naivety and the fact that Pompey thought he had done enough in order to get recognition and acceptance from the Optimates to gain land for his veterans and to have his innumerable arrangements in the East ratified. | | | Cato also refused Pompey’s offer of marriage to one of his nieces. | | | There are some key factors that have to be considered towards the break down of the Triumvirate. |
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http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/4926.php
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| | THE ROMAN REVOLUTION I: The Late Republic, 122-60 B |
| | To some, the optimates were the defenders of the constitution, of law and order, and of tradition. | | | The two groups are called the optimates and the populares. | | | Urban population opposed because it perceived that it would mean a dilution of benefits they increasing enjoyed through the largesse of the populares. |
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http://www.uoregon.edu/~msnic/RepRomeW01/army.htm
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| | The Use of the Tribunate for Reforms |
| | Another was the inability of the plebeians to rise up to the responsibilities these tribunes had inevitably put into their hands. | | | This is probable considering that the main threat to the Roman republic was the conservative natures of the system and the people, particularly the Optimates. | | | Instead, the reasons that Rome lapsed into civil war were the very same ones for the emergence of these tribune-reformers. |
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http://janusquirinus.org/essays/Tribunate.html
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| | The patrician and equestrian classes were divided into 2 groups - the Optimates and Populares. | | | The Optimates represented the interests of the patricians, especially those dealing with legal or business matters. |
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http://www.dl.ket.org/latin3/mores/government/images/optimates.htm
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| | Caesar and his forces chased Pompeius and optimates out from Italy, and after taking Spain he followed them to Greece. | | | There the optimates were defeated in battle of Farsalos. | | | when a civil war started between Gaius Julius Caesar and the optimate party. |
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http://www.sirius.sgic.fi/~juha/hirtius.doc
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| | Brothers Gracchi |
| | It should be noted, however, that the Optimates came together only when the Populares were able to threaten their economic and social positions. | | | His motivation may have been as simple as feeding the poor who were constantly facing starvation; or he may have desired to challenge the client relationship the poor had with the Optimates. | | | In this period is a series of events that will culminate in the end of the republic. |
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http://www.mccsc.edu/~blaw/Gracchi.htm
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| | Historical Background for Spartacus |
| | Marius returned to Rome and outlawed Sulla; he was elected to his seventh consulship and led a five-day bloodbath against the optimates. | | | Sulla outlawed Marius and took up his command in Asia Minor. | | | Sulla marched his legions into Rome itself to enforce his appointment and to stop the reform legislation of the populares; this was the first time in history that a Roman army marched upon Rome. |
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http://vroma.rhodes.edu/~bmcmanus/spartacus.html
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| | While Optimates provides a low-cost solution to SEO, on many occassions it may be cost-effective to have a full-time specialist on the case. | | | To that end we have 3 services that will aid the success of your site. | | | Optimates - a search engine optimising (SEO) service to improve your ratings with the major organisations such as Google and Yahoo. |
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http://www.brightonweb.com/content/view/43/54
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| | This will consist of 25 Optimates, which are superor Roman Bronze coins usually of the 4th Century. | | | With these coins comes: 1 x Identified Roman Bronze coin as an example, plus the ACE CD with 2700 images of Roman Imperial coins, Roman History timeline and a set of ACE documents, including a comprehensive Lesson Plan Below is the order form for New to ACE schools
which please complete clearly and return. | | |
“Gratis” New School “Starter”package Unit consisting of 25 Optimate Roman Coins, an identified Roman bronze coin and the ACE CD as described above — pleased note that only one “Gratis” package is issued per school. |
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http://www.bitsofhistory.com/ace/ACE_Application.doc
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| | His121Ch5-6practice |
| | the abuse of power by the optimates and the populares | | | The heart of the Roman social structure had a dominant male at the head of the family. | | | Tiberius Gracchus believed the underlying cause of Rome's problems was? |
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http://cfcc.net/dutch/His121Ch5-6practice.html
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| | The Optimates: Help Burma! |
| | Please consider e-mailing all of these fine blogs, making the case clearly, and offering links back to relevant posts on Optimates. | | | Please consider e-mailing them yourself to raise their awareness! | | | It's called "flooding the zone," and we can do it! |
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http://opti-mates.blogspot.com/2006/03/help-burma.html
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http://personal.ecu.edu/stevensj/latn3001/ch8.doc
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| | The Optimates |
| | So long as we have some sort of modest title graphic (could just be stylized/colored text of "The Optimates"), I think a clean white, or very light color would be best. | | | I am not such a fan of the gradients in the post boxes, however. | | | Our blog emphasizes the writen content, so we don't want it to be too distracting. |
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http://opti-mates.blogspot.com
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