popular political participation in the late roman
... candidates for office competed for the vote in popular assemblies and, once elected, gained decision-making powers. But it is not a snug fit, for the popular power to legislate reduced magistrates’ power as only the people could enact laws. In Rome, elected magistrates introduced bills, but did not ...
... candidates for office competed for the vote in popular assemblies and, once elected, gained decision-making powers. But it is not a snug fit, for the popular power to legislate reduced magistrates’ power as only the people could enact laws. In Rome, elected magistrates introduced bills, but did not ...
Was Ancient Rome a Dead Wives Society?
... these authors to disclose whether or not a male about whom they wrote possessed patria potestas indicated that particular piece of information about the person’s status was not important. “In general … the Roman lay authors write as if patria potestas was not a fact of life.”19 Such a vital fact wou ...
... these authors to disclose whether or not a male about whom they wrote possessed patria potestas indicated that particular piece of information about the person’s status was not important. “In general … the Roman lay authors write as if patria potestas was not a fact of life.”19 Such a vital fact wou ...
Augustus and the Equites: Developing Rome`s Middle Class
... equestrian order could be acquired through talent, earnings, and more than one generation of free birth, the financial requirements were unachievable by a great number of free men in Rome, setting them apart from the plebeians. Alternatively, the equites were lower than the senatorial elite because ...
... equestrian order could be acquired through talent, earnings, and more than one generation of free birth, the financial requirements were unachievable by a great number of free men in Rome, setting them apart from the plebeians. Alternatively, the equites were lower than the senatorial elite because ...
The Composition of the Peloponnesian Elites in the
... Following are some characteristic examples of different types of resistance to Roman rule, in which the most prominent citizens of the Peloponnesian towns always play a central role either as inciters of an action of protest or as «channels» conveying complaints of the towns to the Roman authorities ...
... Following are some characteristic examples of different types of resistance to Roman rule, in which the most prominent citizens of the Peloponnesian towns always play a central role either as inciters of an action of protest or as «channels» conveying complaints of the towns to the Roman authorities ...
Test 5 - Ancient Rome
... c. protected plebeians against unjust treatment by patricians. d. violated the constitution hammered out by patricians and plebeians. 22. Because the Law of the Twelve Tables were displayed, judges could not a. show partiality to non-Romans. b. discriminate against Etruscans. c. make decisions based ...
... c. protected plebeians against unjust treatment by patricians. d. violated the constitution hammered out by patricians and plebeians. 22. Because the Law of the Twelve Tables were displayed, judges could not a. show partiality to non-Romans. b. discriminate against Etruscans. c. make decisions based ...
Morey, William Carey. Outlines of Roman History. New York
... was very close friends with two women who left him their money after they died. The first was a wealthy plebian woman and the second was his stepmother (Keaveney 10). The wealth he inherited changed his life. He soon became the quaestor to Gaius Marius and fought with him in the Jugurthine War in Af ...
... was very close friends with two women who left him their money after they died. The first was a wealthy plebian woman and the second was his stepmother (Keaveney 10). The wealth he inherited changed his life. He soon became the quaestor to Gaius Marius and fought with him in the Jugurthine War in Af ...
2011 Senior External Examination Ancient History Paper Two
... refrained from no word or act provided that it won him popularity. He relaxed his former strict discipline over the troops under his command in winter quarters, and talked about the war in a mixture of criticism and boastfulness to the men of business, a large number of whom were present in Utica. “ ...
... refrained from no word or act provided that it won him popularity. He relaxed his former strict discipline over the troops under his command in winter quarters, and talked about the war in a mixture of criticism and boastfulness to the men of business, a large number of whom were present in Utica. “ ...
A Roman in Name Only: An Onomastic Study of Cultural
... culture upon the conquered populace. This theory harkens to some of the unarguable ethnocentrism that Roman sources displayed when speaking of Rome’s cultural superiority. Keay states that this is a common assumption among some archeologists, who view the abundant Roman-style evidence as a sign that ...
... culture upon the conquered populace. This theory harkens to some of the unarguable ethnocentrism that Roman sources displayed when speaking of Rome’s cultural superiority. Keay states that this is a common assumption among some archeologists, who view the abundant Roman-style evidence as a sign that ...
the Roman Virtues
... An Introduction to the Roman Deities Italy made significant contributions to the traditions of the Religio Romana and how the gods were understood. By the time Rome was a republic, divine powers worshipped throughout the whole Mediterranean world were being invited and welcomed to Rome. Once in Rom ...
... An Introduction to the Roman Deities Italy made significant contributions to the traditions of the Religio Romana and how the gods were understood. By the time Rome was a republic, divine powers worshipped throughout the whole Mediterranean world were being invited and welcomed to Rome. Once in Rom ...
LESSON V THE GRACCHI The first part of Lesson V is based on the
... When Caius found out about this he sailed at once for Rome, and when he appeared there, his friends and his enemies were angry. Everyone thought it was wrong for him to leave Sardinia while still Quaestor. Nevertheless, when somebody accused him of this to the Censors, he defended himself and did so ...
... When Caius found out about this he sailed at once for Rome, and when he appeared there, his friends and his enemies were angry. Everyone thought it was wrong for him to leave Sardinia while still Quaestor. Nevertheless, when somebody accused him of this to the Censors, he defended himself and did so ...
6.2 Roman Empire
... they shave all the rest of their bodies except the head and upper lip. . . . 15. The enemy horse and chariots engaged our cavalry briskly on the march, but our men everywhere had the upper hand and drove them into the forests and hills. But when they had killed a number they pursued too eagerly and ...
... they shave all the rest of their bodies except the head and upper lip. . . . 15. The enemy horse and chariots engaged our cavalry briskly on the march, but our men everywhere had the upper hand and drove them into the forests and hills. But when they had killed a number they pursued too eagerly and ...
Polybius on the Role of the Senate in the Crisis of 264 B.C.
... ut id fieret dissuadentesque contentio fuisset. Most scholars, however, have found little reason to take the Periochae of Livy seriously when the far more trustworthy Polybius, as universally understood, has seemed to convey a quite different story. Usually, the Livian tradition has simply been igno ...
... ut id fieret dissuadentesque contentio fuisset. Most scholars, however, have found little reason to take the Periochae of Livy seriously when the far more trustworthy Polybius, as universally understood, has seemed to convey a quite different story. Usually, the Livian tradition has simply been igno ...
THE RISE OF ROME
... - curiae with patricians and plebeians - curio (head of curia) over 50 and always a patrician - each curia with own meeting place, shrine; agricultural cults - Comitia curiata - kings: basis of military muster; each curia: 10 cavalry, 100 infantry - acclamation or disapproval of king’s actions (war ...
... - curiae with patricians and plebeians - curio (head of curia) over 50 and always a patrician - each curia with own meeting place, shrine; agricultural cults - Comitia curiata - kings: basis of military muster; each curia: 10 cavalry, 100 infantry - acclamation or disapproval of king’s actions (war ...
THE RISE OF ROME
... - curiae with patricians and plebeians - curio (head of curia) over 50 and always a patrician - each curia with own meeting place, shrine; agricultural cults - Comitia curiata - kings: basis of military muster; each curia: 10 cavalry, 100 infantry - acclamation or disapproval of king’s actions (war ...
... - curiae with patricians and plebeians - curio (head of curia) over 50 and always a patrician - each curia with own meeting place, shrine; agricultural cults - Comitia curiata - kings: basis of military muster; each curia: 10 cavalry, 100 infantry - acclamation or disapproval of king’s actions (war ...
The Novus Homo and Virtus: Oratory, Masculinity, and the
... was more to “being a man” than just facing death in combat. During this time another group, the self-styled Atticists, emerged. This group, through their attacks on Cicero, highlight exactly how some Romans conceptualized the deep connection between oratory and traditional virtus. However, the conce ...
... was more to “being a man” than just facing death in combat. During this time another group, the self-styled Atticists, emerged. This group, through their attacks on Cicero, highlight exactly how some Romans conceptualized the deep connection between oratory and traditional virtus. However, the conce ...
The Lex Sempronia Agraria: A Soldier`s Stipendum
... has disintegrated into “patchy excerpta.”2 Livy, an important Roman historian who lived during the last days of the Republic and wrote in the reign of emperor Augustus, authored nine books, within his ab Urbe condita, chronicling the period from 145 BCE to 123 BCE. This encompasses the period immedi ...
... has disintegrated into “patchy excerpta.”2 Livy, an important Roman historian who lived during the last days of the Republic and wrote in the reign of emperor Augustus, authored nine books, within his ab Urbe condita, chronicling the period from 145 BCE to 123 BCE. This encompasses the period immedi ...
Reforms of the Gracchi Brothers
... when he spoke, instead of the senate, all these laws were passed, and Gaius was allowed to select the new jurors, now all from the equestrian order. These wealthy merchant "knights" also benefited by Rome's selling of tax collection privileges in the provinces to the highest capitalist bidders. Gaiu ...
... when he spoke, instead of the senate, all these laws were passed, and Gaius was allowed to select the new jurors, now all from the equestrian order. These wealthy merchant "knights" also benefited by Rome's selling of tax collection privileges in the provinces to the highest capitalist bidders. Gaiu ...
Electoral abuse in the late Roman Republic
... the older orthodoxy that the Roman state was not really “democratic,” but rather that the voting assemblies and the plebs urbana were pawns in a controlling patron-client system. This debate, too, bears heavily on the significance of electoral abuse. If the whole electoral mechanism was a sham and e ...
... the older orthodoxy that the Roman state was not really “democratic,” but rather that the voting assemblies and the plebs urbana were pawns in a controlling patron-client system. This debate, too, bears heavily on the significance of electoral abuse. If the whole electoral mechanism was a sham and e ...
Practical - Kent Archaeological Field School
... armlet and a bronze anklet. Experts think that this may have been ritual regalia, and the man may have been a Cybelean priest dressed as a transvestite. This discovery is revealed in a recently published report by the Council for British Archaeology on the site near Catterick in North Yorkshire. For ...
... armlet and a bronze anklet. Experts think that this may have been ritual regalia, and the man may have been a Cybelean priest dressed as a transvestite. This discovery is revealed in a recently published report by the Council for British Archaeology on the site near Catterick in North Yorkshire. For ...
Mos, maiores, and historical exempla in Roman culture - Beck-Shop
... gestae, were turned into moralizing historical exempla, illustrating not only the quality of a particular action but also its position within mos maiorum in that each exemplum could be placed on a scale from good to bad.10 Furthermore, with this moralizing element, the genre of history became a furt ...
... gestae, were turned into moralizing historical exempla, illustrating not only the quality of a particular action but also its position within mos maiorum in that each exemplum could be placed on a scale from good to bad.10 Furthermore, with this moralizing element, the genre of history became a furt ...
Slide 1
... The patricians and the plebeians shared power in Rome, but a third order had no voice in how they were ruled. They were the slaves. Many people captured in war became slaves. Some were former criminals. Others–very poor Romans–sold themselves and their families into slavery to keep from starving. Ro ...
... The patricians and the plebeians shared power in Rome, but a third order had no voice in how they were ruled. They were the slaves. Many people captured in war became slaves. Some were former criminals. Others–very poor Romans–sold themselves and their families into slavery to keep from starving. Ro ...
Wong Ruth Roman Research Paper - 2010
... ambush the enemy for water (Plutarch 504). His soldiers did just that. It was a surprise attack, so most of the enemy soldiers were unprepared and many got killed. This exemplified Marius’s strategies. Because his ideas were unique, his enemies could not figure out where or when he planned to attack ...
... ambush the enemy for water (Plutarch 504). His soldiers did just that. It was a surprise attack, so most of the enemy soldiers were unprepared and many got killed. This exemplified Marius’s strategies. Because his ideas were unique, his enemies could not figure out where or when he planned to attack ...
Second Punic War Background Guide
... Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca, is believed to have sworn an oath to his father before he ...
... Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca, is believed to have sworn an oath to his father before he ...
Legislative assemblies of the Roman Republic
The legislative assemblies of the Roman Republic were political institutions in the ancient Roman Republic. According to the contemporary historian Polybius, it was the people (and thus the assemblies) who had the final say regarding the election of magistrates, the enactment of new statutes, the carrying out of capital punishment, the declaration of war and peace, and the creation (or dissolution) of alliances. Under the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the people (and thus the assemblies) held the ultimate source of sovereignty.Since the Romans used a form of direct democracy, citizens, and not elected representatives, voted before each assembly. As such, the citizen-electors had no power, other than the power to cast a vote. Each assembly was presided over by a single Roman Magistrate, and as such, it was the presiding magistrate who made all decisions on matters of procedure and legality. Ultimately, the presiding magistrate's power over the assembly was nearly absolute. The only check on that power came in the form of vetoes handed down by other magistrates.In the Roman system of direct democracy, two primary types of gatherings were used to vote on legislative, electoral, and judicial matters. The first was the Assembly (comitia), which was a gathering that was deemed to represent the entire Roman people, even if it did not contain all of the Roman citizens or, like the comitia curiata, excluded a particular class of Roman citizens (the plebs). The second was the Council (concilium), which was a gathering of citizens of a specific class. In contrast, the Convention was an unofficial forum for communication. Conventions were simply forums where Romans met for specific unofficial purposes, such as, for example, to hear a political speech. Voters always assembled first into Conventions to hear debates and conduct other business before voting, and then into Assemblies or Councils to actually vote.