The Correspondence of Cicero and Plancus, September 44 - July 43
Abstract
On the morning of March 15, la B.C. Julius Caesar was the undisputed master of Rome, Italy and the Empire. By the evening of that day he was dead. The seventeen mon the that followed witnessed the valiant but vain struggle of Marcus Tullius Cicere to rastare the Republic,1 It was a struggle in which it was vital for Cicere to gain not only political support in Rome, but also to secure military support in the field for if the Republic was to survive, the provincial governors each at the head of a powerful army, had to be kept loyal to the State, Thus it was of the essence of Cicere's program to win the allegiance of men like Gaius Asinius Follie in Spain, Marous Aemilius Lepidus in Gallia Narbonensis and Lucius Hunatius Plancus in Gallia Comata.
Subject Area
Communication|Ancient history|Classical literature|Political science
Recommended Citation
Wilkinson, John V, "The Correspondence of Cicero and Plancus, September 44 - July 43" (1959). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28623375.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28623375
