Early Rome Flashcards
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Roman government during the republic
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- SPQR : senate and people of Rome
- voting assemblies
- elected officials
- imperium * power to command
- ways to make laws
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Structures and divisions in Roman society
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- patricians and plebeians
- patrons and clients
- citizenship
- slaves and freed slaves
3
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Roman household (familia) and houses
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- laws around family and paterfamilias
- marriage
- slaves
4
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Roman religion
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- actions matter most in proper behaviour to the gods (orthopraxy)
- pax deorum
- state gods
- household religion
5
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Entertainment
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- gladiators
- chariot racing
- theatre
- bathing
6
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Important questions
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- did Greece influence it? How did Romans adapt that to suit Roman society?
- how do class, status, gender influence how different people experienced it?
- did it change under Augustus? How?
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Republican government: SPQR senate populusque romanus
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- 508 - 27 BCE
- senate
- people (in voting assemblies)
- 2 consuls
8
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Early republic
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- struggle of the orders
- expansion in Italy
- servian wall starting 386 BCE
9
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Orders (classes of society)
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- Patricians - hereditary aristocracy founded by Romulus
- root word pater (father)
- start a list of words related to pater (stem patr–) - Plebeians - everyone else
- initially: separate officers and meeting groups
- can act like a state within a state
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Struggle of the orders
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- 494 BC plebeian assembly: concilium plebis
- tribunes
- makes plebiscita - 451 twelve tables
- 367 BC plebeians can hold consulship
- 287 BC plebiscites are binding on everyone (lex hortensia)
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Expansion of Rome in Italy
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- Rome controls Italy by ca. 270 BCE
- includes Greek cities
- conquered neighbours are allies (socii)
- want soldiers, not tribute
