Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- The Dictator
- Ist Teil von
- A Companion to Julius Caesar, 2009, p.57-71
- Ort / Verlag
- Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2009
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Wiley-Blackwell Online Books - All Titles (includes Withdrawn titles)
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- This chapter contains sections titled: Caesar's Legislation Plans for the Future Further Reading
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 140514923X, 9781405149235DOI: 10.1002/9781444308440.ch5Titel-ID: cdi_wiley_ebooks_10_1002_9781444308440_ch5_ch5
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Caesar probably had in mind ‐ not immediate restoration of the res publica urged by Cicero, but the enforcement of his own laws, Caesar's constitutional powers ‐ derived partly from consulship, Caesar's imminent departure for the East ‐ possible context for alleged remark about Sulla being a dunce for having abdicated dictatorship, Caesar's legislation ‐ Sulla as dictator altered the constitution by measures designed to strengthen authority of Senate, Caesar's office as dictator perpetuus ‐ lapsing with his own lifetime, dictator could convene assemblies, dictators appointed under the Republic ‐ to meet immediate needs, powers of the office seem never to have been precisely defined in law, the dictator, the official description was rei gerundae causa (“to take necessary action”)