Cato the Younger: life and death at the end of the Roman republic PDF
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i Cato the Younger ii iii Cato the Younger Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic z FRED K. DROGULA 1 iv 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2019 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. CIP data is on file at the Library of Congress ISBN 978– 0– 19– 086902– 1 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America v For Anne vi vii Contents List of Maps, Stemmata, and Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Family 9 2. Early Years 23 3. Cato the Tribune 56 4. Cato and the Formation of the Triumvirate 102 5. Cato’s Cyprian Mission and Its Aftermath 157 6. Shifting Alliances 190 7. Collapse 230 8. Civil War 275 Epilogue: Cato the Stoic 296 Glossary of Terms 315 Bibliography 321 Index 335 viii ix List of Maps, Stemmata, and Figures Maps 1 Roman Empire xiii 2 Roman Italy xiv 3 Rome in the Late Republic xv 4 Roman Forum xvi Stemmata 1 Descendants of Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder xvii 2 Family of Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger xviii Figures 2.1 Bust of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great), Augustan copy of a ca. 70– 60 bc original, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia. 40 3.1 Cato propaganda cup, 1st century bc, CIL VI 40904 = AE 1979, 64, from Museo Nazionale Romano - Terme di Diocleziano, Rome. 58 3.2 Bust of Marcus Tullius Cicero, 1st century ad Palazzo Nuovo, Musei Capitolini, Rome. 60 3.3 Green basalt bust of Gaius Julius Caesar, early 1st century ad, from Egypt. Altes Museum, Berlin. 69 3.4 Bust of Marcus Licinius Crassus, Augustan copy of a late 1st century bc original, Louvre, Paris. 76 E.1 The Death of Cato, Pierre Narcisse Guérin, (1744– 1833). 1997, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux- Arts, Paris. 301
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