Triumvirates In Ancient Rome: Power Struggle, Intrigue And Ambush

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A triumvirate (in Latin’ tre viri’ – three-man – or ‘triumviri’) was a board of three officials who shared a position of authority or power in ancient Rome.

Lepidus, Octavian and Mark Antony make a list of names of the most important Romans, whom they can execute with impunity and expropriate their property (the second triumvirate). Image credit: Rijksmuseum -Credit line: Schenking van J.J. de Man, Ede – CC0 1.0 DEED

A political agreement between these statesmen enabled them to govern together so that “nothing in the republic could happen without their consent.”

The “First Triumvirate,” also known as – the alliance of ‘three’ – was an unofficial arrangement made in 60 BC by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey’ the Great’), Gaius Julius Caesar, and Marcus Licinius Crassus.

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