TEST 1.1 Expansion and Political Structure
Classical Civilization 208 with Irby at College of William and Mary
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What date was Rome founded?
April 21, 753 BC
What is "Mos Maiorum"
- "Custom of the Ancestors"
- do not change family tradition
Who was the 1st King? -- Details
ROMULUS
- 753 BC
- Regal Period
What was the outcome of the 2nd Samnite War?
Romans have port presence in the Adriatic Sea. It gives them access to Eastern and Western seas
What was the outcome of the 3rd Samnite War?
Rome dominates central Italy
What was the outcome of Pyrrhus?
Rome moves into the Mediterranean Sea
What was outcome of the First Punic War?
- Rome controls Siciliy
- Carthage loses Navy
- Hannibal wages land battle b/c he has no Navy
What were the years and outcome of the Second Punic War?
- 218 BC - 201 BC
- Carthage expands into Spain
- Spain requests help from Rome, who grants alliance, causing friction with Carthage.
- Carthage surrenders and must pay 10,000 talents
What does "Pietas" mean?
- "Piety"
- respect for tradition, family, religion; fulfill obligation and services to family, state, and state religion
- obligation if you have the means to run for council, serve on Senate, etc. (on exam)
- patriotism **the American way**
What were the periods of Roman history?
- Regal: 753 BC - 509 BC
- Republic: 509 BC - 31 BC
- Imperial: 31 BC - 476 AD
Who is Livius Andronicus?
- FATHER OF LATIN LITERATURE
- slave tutor in Greek and Latin
- translates Odyssey to Latin
cursus honorum
sequential order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in both the Roman Republic and the early Empire
Quaestor
- Lowest on Cursus
- Financial Officer
- Where politician would get his start
- automatically enrolled in Senate after the term
- Age 31
Aedile
- Responsible for city infrastructure and public buildings
- **Public Games**
- Need to be a Quaestor before an Aedile
- Can be in the Senate and Aedile at the same time
- Anyone can run for this position as long as you have money and resources
- Age 36
Tribune of the Plebs
- Must be apart of the Plebian class
- Have rights to veto laws, elections, and Senatus Consultum. NOT Interrex or dictator
- Have rights to call Senate
- Can only hold office once
- 10 elected every year
Imperium**********
- Exclusive right of higher office (praetor and above)
- Get to have Lictores, Auspices, command army
- Right of Life and Death - over Roman citizens
- Immunity from lawsuites (only while holding office)
fasces
- bundle of wooden sticks with axe in the middle
- carried by lictores
Lictores
- Accompany the magistrates
- Usually from poor/ undistinguished families
- Carry fasces on left shoulder
- Implements rights of arrests and summons
Praetor
- Have right of Imperium
- **Have 6 Lictors**
- Defense Officers
- Might serve as governor after term
Consul
- **2 elected every year**
- Has Imperium
- Direct foreign policy/ Lead armies
- Has 12 Lictors
- Eponymous
- Can be elected no younger than 42
Censor - Occasional Magistrates
- Every 5 years
- Review rolls of Senate/ Enforce Morality
- 18 month term
- Imperium but no Lictors
Dictator - Occasional Magistrates
- Senate decides during emergency
- 6 month term
- Has 24 Lictors
Interrex - Occasional Magistrate
- 5 Day term
- When shit gets bad and cannot hold elections
- Keep appointing until order is restored
Assemblies
- Every man over a certain age is a member
- Voting - elect magistrate
- Responsible for elections, declaration of war, and rubberstamp the laws
Senate
- Office for Life
- Open to ex-quaestors and above
- Need certain property value/ cannot be ex-slave or son of one
- Wear special Red shoes
- Serve check on assemblies
- Advise Magistrate
- Sit in Curule Chair
- In charge of treasury
- Elect Interex/ Nominate dictator
- Meet in Curia
Latus clavus
- attire worn by Senators
- tunic with purple stripes on both sides of body
•3 branches of government – work together
- Assemblies – represent democracy
- Everyone can participate
- Don’t have anything to do with out the others
- Senate – represents oligarchy
- Wealthy men responsible for finances
- Ratify laws
- Consuls – represent monarchy because 2 men are running
- Need assembly to be voted in
- Need senate for money
- Each has series of checks and balances
Class Structure
- Wealth
- Freedom
- Roman Citizenship
Patrician
- Advise Kings
- Hereditary
Plebeians
- Can become Patrician through Adoption
- Not allowed to:
- Intermarry with patricians
- Hold public Office
- Hold Priesthoods
- Serve in Senate
12 Tables
- 451 BC
- Centerpiece of Roman Republic Constitution
Polybius
- Polybius born in 200 BC
- Fought against romans in Macedonia
- Dies at 82 from falling off of a horse
- Writes history in Greek to explain how Rome came to dominate the Greek speaking world
- Known for his idea of "separation of powers"
Scipio Africanus
- 236-183
- Consul (205)
- Leads war against Carthage (205-201)
- Triumph
- “Scipionic legend”
- Opposition at Rome
- Embezzlement
- Bribery
- Voluntary exile to avoid trial (184, Campania)
Cato the Elder
- 234-149 BC (Tusculum)
- Military tribune in 2nd Punic War
- Prominent Orator (Carthago delenda est)
- Censor (184)
- Novus homo
- Stern morality
- Writings: De agricultura (extant), Origines, De re militari, Carmen de moribus
Hannibal
- 247-? (182-)
- Initiates war with Rome, May 218
- 90,000 infantry (50,000)
- 12,000 cavalry (9,000)
- War Elephants (37)
Hannibal cont.....
- Swore to never be friends with rome
- Father was general in 1st Punic
- Great Carthaginian General
- Understood importance of intelligence
- Had very very loyal troops
Battle of Zuma
- Hannibal's final defeat by Rome's Scipio Africanus
- 202 BC
- End of the 2nd Punic War (aka Carthaginian War)
latifundia
- "Big Plantation"
- Result of Roman Expansion
- Wealthy land owners bought poor peasant farms
Fabius Pictor
- First historian in Rome
- Senator in Rome
- Wrote in Greek
- Wants to defend Roman policy to the Greek world
- Wrote for intellectuals and well-trained people
fabullae palliata
- Plautus
- "Stories in Greek Dress"
- 21 Greek New Comedy including Pseudolus
Pseudolus
- Low status slave of Roman society
- Main character
- Witty
Calidorus
- Son of Simio (Psudolus' master)
- Part of the Upper Class
- Depends on Pseudolus
- In love with Phoenicium
Phoenicium
- Prostitute that Calidorus falls in love with
Ballio
- Wealthy Pimp
- Villain of the play
Simo
- Wealthy slave owner
- Pseudolus' master
Simia
- Charinus' slave
Charinus
- Loyal Friend of Calidorus
- Loans Pseudolus the 500 drachmae he needs
Polymachaeroplagides
- Macedonian general who initially buys Phoenicium
Harpax
- Messenger who was sent to deliver the last 500 drachmae and retrieve Phoenicium
About this deck
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Size: 49 flashcards
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