Eric virgil biography

VIRGIL

VIRGIL

THE POET OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Rome had conquered the world and the victors were scrambling for the spoils. Two great civil wars naturally followed the earlier wars of conquest.

In the first of these civil wars, Marius and Sulla measured their strength against each other.

Eric virgil biography

After seven years of bloodshed, Sulla entered Rome in triumph and was made dictator just eighty-one years before Christ. Then followed thirty-seven years of exhaustion and peace, broken only by Pompey's overthrow of Sulla's constitution in the year 70, and Caesar's overthrow of Pompey and the republic in 48.

The second civil war began just so soon as there arose two new leaders able to continue the fight.

Those leaders were Antony and Octavian, the former Caesar's legal heir, the latter Caesar's personal heir. As in the first civil war Sulla had represented the aristocratic party against Marius, so in the second, civil war Octavian represented the popular party against