2.3 Caesar as Popularis and Dictator

• How did Caesar improve the economic situation for poor people as dictator?

  Cancelled all interest repayments since 49 BCE
• How did Caesar affect government in his reforms during his dictatorship (2 points)?

  Expanded Senate to 900 and he Doubled the number of quaestors, aediles and praetors
• When was Caesar's aunt Julia's funeral?

  69 BCE
• What suggests Pompey and Caesar were still on the same side in 52 BCE?

  Pompey proposes a joint consulship with Caesar until Cato organises a sole consulship
• What was Curio's personal belief about Caesar?

  He opposed him, until he was paid off
• When did Caesar's campaign in Gaul end?

  51 BCE
• When was Caesar's quaestorship?

  69 BCE
• When did Caesar become Pontifex Maximus?

  63 BCE
• When was the Bona Dea scandal?

  62 BCE
• When was Caesar's first consulship?

  59 BCE
• When was the Luca Conference?

  56 BCE
• When was the second consulship of Crassus and Pompey?

  55 BCE
• When was Pompey given 5 years imperium to stabilise grain supply?

  57 BCE
• When and how does Crassus die?

  53 BCE at the Battle of Carrhae
• When does Clodius die?

  52 BCE
• When does Pompey die?

  48 BCE
• When does Caesar first become dictator and for how long?

  49 BCE for 11 days
• What position does Caesar hold in 47 BCE?

  Dictator in absentia
• When is Caesar dictator in absentia?

  47 BCE
• What position does Caesar hold in 46 BCE?

  Dictator for 10 years
• When does Caesar become dictator for 10 years?

  46 BCE
• What new position does Caesar give himself in 46 BCE?

  praefectura morum
• When does Caesar become praefectura morum?

  46 BCE
• What does praefectura morum mean?

  Gives Caesar the powers of the censors
• When does Caesar become dictator in perpetuity and why then?

  45 BCE after the Battle of Munda so the civil war is over and he is no longer under threat
• When did Caesar request a triumph and to stand for consul in absentia?

  60 BCE
• What did Caesar ask the Senate for in 60 BCE?

  A triumph for Gaul To campaign as consul in absentia
• How did the Senate respond to Caesar's request for a triumph and to stand for consul in absentia in 60 BCE?

  The accepted the triumph but rejected the consulship
• How did Caesar respond to the Senate's rejection of him standing for the consulship in absentia in 60 BCE?

  He gave up imperium and the triumph and returned to Rome to run
• When did Pompey campaign with Sulla?

  The 80s
• Caesar's cursus honorum journey with dates

  Quaestor 69, aedile 65, praetor 62, consul 59
• What was Caesar' view on the Cataline conspirators?

  They shouldn't be executed
• Why was Crassus willing to join the triumvirate in 60 BCE?

  The Senate had rejected a tax rebate for equites in Asia in 60 BCE
• Why was Pompey willing to join the triumvirate?

  The Senate had rejected his land for veterans and ratification of his treaties in 60 BCE
• How did Crassus and Caesar connect for the triumvirate?


  Crassus funded Caesar's election campaigns and paid for games
• How did Pompey and Caesar connect for the triumvirate?

  Pompey married Caesar's daughter Julia in 59 BCE
• What bill for the people did Caesar bring as consul in 59 BCE?

  A land allocation bill called the Campanian law
• How was the Campanian Law passed?

  The Senate rejected it so Caesrar took it to the assembly of the people where it passed
• How did Caesar use Pompey as a threat to pass the Campanian law during his consulship in 59 BCE?

  In front of the people, he asked whether Pompey would use his veterans to defend the bill against those who opposed it
• What did the Campanian law do?

  Remaining public land of Italy, which is in Campania was divided and given to veterans and fathers of large urban families