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* Caius Julius Caesar
Caesar's Meditations [In Character and Out of Character notes for Julius Caesar in the game Pax Inter Pares]
October 6 , 2005
OOC Note on Armenian Army Posted at 21:00 EST
Culled from a gram from Pub:
The Armenians - 25000 Armenian legionaries, 7500 Pontic Phalanx, 12500 eastern infantry, 10000 Armenian cataphracts, 10000 eastern horse archers, 5000 peltasts, 1500 archers, 1500 camel cavalry and 15000 peasant/allied infantry - 88000 total (I was thinking that with the Parthians still using them that the Armenians could maybe get their hands on some elephants)
OOC Note on Pontic Army Posted at 20:00 EST
Culled from a gram from Pub:
I must warn you that my numbers are a lot higher than yours. Both regions had populations of 500,000 and because they are fighting for their freedom, a large portion of them will have been mobilised. The Pontics - 15000 Bronze Shields (elite phalanx), 20000 Pontic legionaries, 15000 Greek Phalanx, 5000 heavy Greek cavalry, 2500 Armenian cataphracts, 5000 Thracian mercenaries, 5000 peltasts, 2500 Scythian horse archers, 2000 archers and 20000 peasant/allied infantry - 92,000 total.
September 26 , 2005
OOC Note about Dacian Army Posted at 23:00 EST
The core of the force is made of native infantry, of which 50,000 is the heavy falxmen infantry, another 50,000 is medium infantry and 30,000 is Dacian warbands (the barbarian attempt at the phalanx formation). On top of this there is an elite unit of Chosen Swordsmen numbering 20,000 and the usual and absolutely useless 30,000 peasant infantry. Also we have 2500 Chosen archers, 2500 Scythian horse archers, 5000 Boii skirmishers, 5000 Bastarnae skirmishers (both of these are subject peoples of Burebista at this time), 10,000 Thracians (allies serving in the Dacian army but there are many more in the forests and mountains of the region unfriendly to Rome) and finally 5000 cavalry (of crap quality but the terrain does not suit cavalry so Caesar's cavalry may almost be as useless).
September 17 , 2005
OOC Note Posted at 20:00 EST
Have to have XXXXXX do something soon. The east is too calm for Gnae-Gnae...
De Mea Familia Posted at 16:30 EST
For my new library, I heartily intend to write a few books. One of which will detail my family tree, I should think, tracing my gens back as far as I can find records for. (OOC: This will be a scholarly pursuit and executed with care for authenticity, so it will be a valuable resource.)
The Consul's Agenda Posted at 16:30 EST
Topics to cover:

The new alpine province.
Governorships.
The Library.
Taxes.
The Curia.
The legion structure.
Books on my family.
Greater Provinces Posted at 16:30 EST
The Provinces shall be administered, at their level, more and more locally, but with Roman overlordship to be sure. The provinces in regiones will be administered in the traditional manner, by ex-magistrates.

However, these will be based in Rome now, making circuit appearances in their designated provinces to help with administration and justice.

The regions, with their grouped provinces shall be:
Macedonia, consisting of the provinces Achaea, Macedonia et Thracia, Illyria; Hispania, comprised of Hispania Ulterior and Citerior; Sicilia, made of the selfsame province as well as Corsica et Sardinia; Gallia Magna, including Gallia Cisalpina, the Province, newly won Alpes Iuliani, and lastly Gallia Caesaris (this one may be subdivided further); Syria, Cyprus and Syria; Africa, containing Africa Province and Cyrenaica et Cretum.
The City in the North Posted at 16:00 EST
I wish Cicero would respond to his brother. I want Quintus Cicero up here as soon as possible. He should begin to help me with the new Forum Julium by summer at the latest.
Laws Posted at 16:00 EST
I need to reform the constitution. The Republic needs to be run smoothly by one magistrate with a firm hand. No more of this negative power. A Tribune, for instance, is by nature a destructive creature. We should give them more legislating authority. The veto should be curbed to truly defend the Republic. Good men should be able to be re-elected for the Consulship. Successively, if they wish. After all, why dispense with a good thing? Measures should be in place to prevent usurpation of this office however.
OOC: Some evidence for Caesar to start a fabulous building project next year in PIP Posted at 16:00 EST
Suetonius includes in his life of Julius Caesar a list of projects de ornanda instruendaque urbe which were cut short by Caesar's death (44.1-3). This paper examines two projects in Suetonius' list, the theater and the library, and argues that both are to be associated with the Capitoline and were elements in a much larger complex planned by Caesar.

Caesar had shown his interest in the Capitoline from early in his political career: as aedile in 65, he restored to the Capitoline the trophies of Marius, which had been removed by Sulla (Vell. 2.43.4, Suet. Iul. 11, Plut. Caes. 6). On the first day of his praetorship in 62, he disputed the right of Quintus Lutatius Catulus to rededicate the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, which had been burned in 83 and rededicated in 69 (Suet. Iul. 15, Cass. Dio 37.44).

Suetonius says that Caesar intended to build theatrum summae magnitudinis Tarpeio monte accubans. In 44, Caesar destroyed the temple of Pietas in the Forum Holitorium to make space for this theater, in the area where Augustus would later build the Theater of Marcellus (Cass. Dio 43.49.3, Plin. NH 7.121). A theater complex stretching from the banks of the Tiber to the slopes of the Capitoline would have been a worthy rival of Pompey's Theater complex in the Campus Martius. Perhaps Caesar even intended to trump the temple of Venus Victrix at the summit of Pompey's cavea, by making the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus his own "theater-temple."

Caesar's plan "to make public (publicare) the largest possible Greek and Latin libraries" was also under way, according to Suetonius, with the task of obtaining and arranging the libraries entrusted to Marcus Terentius Varro. While Caesar did not bring these plans to fulfillment, one of his closest lieutenants, Gaius Asinius Pollio (cos. 40 BCE), established a library in the Atrium Libertatis, which he rebuilt ex manubiis between 39 and 28 (Ov. Tr. 3.1.71-2; Plin. NH 7.30.115, 35.2.10; Isid. Etym. 6.5.1). Pollio's establishment of a library has been viewed as his conscious effort to carry out one of his chief's unfulfilled plans. In particular, Pollio's choice of the Atrium Libertatis suggested the connection between Caesar's plans and Pollio's library, since most Roman topographers have believed that the Atrium Libertatis stood on the northwest slope of the Arx at the top of the Clivus Argentarius, abutting the spot where Caesar's Forum was to be built (Anderson, Historical Topography of the Imperial Fora, 24-6).

Nicholas Purcell has overturned that topographical consensus with his proposal that the Atrium Libertatis is the building we have come to call the "Tabularium" on the Capitoline (PBSR 61 [1993] 125-155). If the Atrium Libertatis was on the Capitoline, we can think of Pollio's public library, the first in Rome, as the "Capitoline Library." Pollio may have been laying claim not only to completion of one of Julius Caesar's unfinished projects but also to a locale and building which figured in Caesar's plans to "adorn and build up" the city of Rome. The building which lay in the saddle between the two summits of the Capitoline would have provided a link between the "theater of Caesar" on the Capitolium and the Senate House of Caesar and Forum of Caesar below the Arx. This Caesarian complex would have matched Pompey's complex, with its own theater, Curia, and Temple of Venus, but would also have bettered it: in location, with its site embracing the Capitoline and the Roman Forum rather than being in the Campus Martius; in divinity, by replacing Venus Victrix with Venus Genetrix (and Jupiter Optimus Maximus); and in cultural significance, by incorporating Rome's first public library. We might even suggest that this swath of Caesarian territory was intended to isolate Pompey's complex and shut it off from the heart of Rome.

Found this on the American Philological Associations website.






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