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Effects Of The First Triumvirate

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Juliane Smith
Professor Mira Green
HSTAM 302
16 July 2023
The First Triumvirate’s Effects on Traditional Rome In 60 BCE, three men, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and Gaius Julius Caesar, came together to accumulate their resources to achieve their personal goals. This alliance is known as The First Triumvirate, but it is more correctly associated as a factio or an amicitia. The term factio was used by political opponents who viewed the trio as a tyrannical faction, while the trio themselves considered the alliance an amicitia, a friendship flourished by mutual aid with their clients, followers, wealth, and influence. Crassus, known for his wealth, with Pompey’s military and political leadership, and Caesar’s unexpected …show more content…

Pompey’s renowned military experience is an example of this, with his grand military power and his large army from past wars that granted him power and authority far beyond the borders of the Roman Republic. When Julius Caesar was in the midst of getting proposals passed, he brought Pompey onto the speaker’s platform once and asked him if there would be his help if there would be a violent resistance, followed by Pompey’s words, “If anyone talks about swords, I can provide swords and shields as well.” His words and actions made it clear that Pompey had given himself to be used by Caesar with his military power. Furthermore, Caesar’s military conquests in Gaul brought him an army, considered to be the most important resource of power, as well as new systems required for the expanding empire that strayed from traditional practices. Pompey’s military experience and the power he received, as a result, is also seen in 55 BCE when he became consul with Crassus for the second time, which was unprecedented and strayed from the limited number of consulships one could have within ten years in traditional Roman practices. All in all, the military power that allowed figures like Caesar and Pompey to have control over much of Roman politics strayed away from traditional practices and set the stage for the

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