Subjects for study for Exam 2

Carefully look at all the biographies we've read from Alexander the Great to Livia (including the Res Gestae of Augustus and Comparison of Antony and Demetrius). Identify especially those passages that describe the character traits and habits of the individuals. I will list one such quote like these for each of the lives (including separate entries for Plutarch's and Suetonius' lives of Julius Caesar) and you will identify the life from which each passage comes. I will then follow each of these passages with a short question asking you to relate the passage to instances where that individual presents those qualities and where I ask you to expand on some of the other qualities that person might show. These questions are intended to get you to show you have thought about what these personality traits mean and how a person shows inclination toward certain personality traits.

As a way of understanding and reviewing the biographies, look up the names below in each of the biographies. Some of the names overlap because Julius Caesar, Augustus, Fulvia, Antony, Livia, etc. all influenced each other's lives. The reason I list them separately here is so you can see that in the individual biographies these names have important impact on that individual or are influenced by their contact with those individuals. The names are roughly in the order they appear in the biography but many of them appear at different places in the life. Use the indices of the Roman Lives, Lives of Caesars and Roman Women books to help you find all references to certain individuals. Age of Alexander does not have an index, so look carefully there.

Alexander
Philip Olympias Bucephalas     Aristotle     Darius     Parmenio Hephaestion Craterus Philotas Cleitus     Callisthenes     Porus Calanus Nearchus Roxane

Julius Caesar (names found in both Plutarch and Suetonius)
Sulla     Marius     Nicomedes     Cicero     Julia (his aunt)     Cato Clodius Pompeia Gnaeus Pompey (the Great)     Bibulus Ver(cin)getorix     Marcus Antony     Cleopatra     Scipio (Pompey's father in law)     Brutus     Cassius     Calpurnia     Octavius

Antony
Curio     Clodius     Julius Caesar Pompey    Cicero     Cytheris Fulvia     after page 376 most references to Caesar mean Octavian = Caesar = Augustus   Lepidus   Brutus     Cassius       Cleopatra      Octavia       Phraates Caesarion Canidius Crassus (Antony's principal lieutenant)

Fulvia
Publius Clodius     Curio     Mark Antony     Cicero     Lucius Antony     Octavian

Lycoris (Cytheris)
Cornelius Gallus     Volumnia Cytheris (Lycoris) know significance of each name    Volumnius Eutrapelus     Brutus

Demetrius
Poliorcetes (Besieger of Cities)     Antigonus I (father)     Lysimachus     Ptolemy     Stratocles Philippides     Lamia     Seleucus Phila     Pyrrhus     Stratonice (married to Seleucus' son Antiochus)     Antigonus II Gonatas (his son)

Augustus
Gaius Octavius Atia     Brutus     Mark Antony     Hirtius & Pansa       Marcus Lepidus     Lucius Antonius     Quintilius Varus Scribonia Livia      Julia (his daughter)     Marcus Agrippa     Gaius & Lucius     Agrippa Postumus     Tiberius

Livia
Tiberius Claudius Nero (her husband)     Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus (her father)     Octavian     Tiberius     Drusus     Octavia     Marcellus     Agrippa     Gaius & Lucius     Agrippa Postumus     Julia Augusta     Germanicus Calpurnius Piso & Plancina     Sejanus