Velleius Paterculus Flashcards
Whome did he write for
Served GaiusCaesar, Octavian’s grandson
He was a senator
Cleopatra’s effect on Antony
His love for Cleopatra was now burning all the more and his vices getting greater; these vices were always fed by his love of power, by the luxury he liked and the flattery from those around him. As a result, he decided now to wage war on his own country.
His writing is
Often biased
It is a summary and not a historical research
Biased
Claims Octavian was merciful and executed no one (not true)
How he begins his short account of Actium
In the summer when Caesar Octavian finished the wAr in Sicily against Pompeius Sextus so successfully, fortune was certainly generous to Caesar Octavian and to the state, but was savagely bad for the armies of the East.
