■ COMPARATIVE AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ■

1. Question

   What connections can you make between the social and political problems of republican Rome and Rome’s rapid territorial expansion? What light do the documents in this chapter shed on this question?

2. Question

   The Brutus who took part in the assassination of Caesar was a descendant of the Brutus who gave the speech in the first document. How does this illuminate the ways in which the conspirators may have thought of themselves?

3. Question

   Compare and contrast Gracchus (Document 5-5) and Caesar (Document 5-6). Are their methods or goals in any way alike? What is similar and different about the problems faced by the republic during Gracchus’s life and during Caesar’s? How does each man deal with these problems?

4. Question

   Consider Caesar’s behavior in the senate, as illustrated in Document 5-6, alongside the behavior of Alexander the Great as described in Document 4-1. What political message did each man intend to send through manners and behavior?