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From photo opps with armored legionaries to a deep dive into ancient pirate practices and Roman architecture, the second annual Ides of March dinner and lecture event was enjoyed by a sell-out crowd on Thursday, March 8.
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The evening began with tours of the Clayton Museum of Ancient History led by the Junior Docents Legion, a group of knowledgeable history enthusiasts ages 8-16. Junior Docents gave presentations on different museum artifacts under the direction of volunteer coordinator Karla Ott. More than one hundred people visited the museum to view the collection, explore the Little Kingdom children’s interactive exhibit, and learn from the Junior Docents’ research.
After the museum tours, many attendees moved upstairs to the Miller Room for the dinner and lecture portion of the event. Dr. Tim McNeese, associate professor of history at York College, served as the emcee. He entertained the audience with a story about a Roman politician named Lucius Licinius Lucullus, who was famous for his extravagant banquets and enormous ego, noting that he once spent the equivalent of what would today be $90,000 on a single meal for himself and three friends. McNeese assured the audience that while the Clayton Museum hadn’t spent nearly as much as Lucullus on the evening’
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Book Reviews
Reviewed By: Martin Holmes
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The Roman Republic by Michael Crawford (second edition, 1992)
Pompey always maintained that simplicity in his habits which cost him no great effort; for he was naturally temperate and orderly in his desires. (18)
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106 to 48 BC)
This is one of the longest lives, with 80 chapters. Pompey the Great was a boy wonder general, who racked up a series of military victories, both in Rome’s civil wars and against external enemies. He was awarded unprecedented military power to fight the pirates and then prosecute the war in Parthia in the 60s BC, with the result that a growing number of critics began to think him a threat to the state.
In 60 BC Pompey entered into an uneasy alliance with the two other most powerful men in Rome, Julius Caesar (who had himself been awarded extraordinary and extended powers to fight his long war in Gaul) and Marcus Crassus (the richest man in Rome) in order to bribe and strong-arm their way to successive consulships and continually renewed generalships. It was called the triumvirate.
In the later 50s the triumvirate collapsed because a) Crassus was killed on campaign in Parthia and b) Caesar’s beloved daughter, Julia, who he had given to Pompey, died young, thus breaking the family tie between them. It left Po