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Dealing with Caesar: Finding Politics between 42 and 27 BC*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2015

Kathryn Welch
Kathryn Welch*
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The University of Sydney, kathryn.welch@svdnev.edu.au
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Abstract

The idea that ‘the republic died at Philippi’ was an essential element in the discourse of the principate because it denied legitimacy to the resistance that followed. Yet, until 36, the republicans' control of the seas under Sextus Pompeius' leadership allowed the continuation of military resistance which all too often was embarrassingly successful. Restoring Sextus Pompeius to his rightful place in the alliance against the triumvirate allows us to rethink the narrative of the war as well the ways his supporters contributed to the politics of the novus status even after his defeat.

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Antichthon , Volume 46 , 2012, pp. 126 - 149
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Copyright © Australasian Society for Classical Studies 2012

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Footnotes

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This paper represents a revised version of a presentation delivered at the 2009 Symposium Cumanum by invitation of Professor Patricia Johnston. I would like to thank the conference organisers and the Vergilian Society for their wonderful hospitality. Thanks are also due to audiences at University College Dublin and St Andrews University where I read the paper in late 2009. Antichthon's anonymous reviewers offered extensive and helpful comments. As my research assistant during 2006, Patrick Tansey prepared the material on the Misenum designations and offered many other useful insights. Roger Pitcher, Anne Rogerson and Kit Morrell read drafts and made pertinent criticisms, as did all my research students. My expression of gratitude in no way commits them to agreement with my arguments and any errors are my own. Dates are BC unless stated. Greek texts are adapted from TLG, Latin from BTL.

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