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Women In Power Flashcards

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Assemblywomen [4]:

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  • Athenian play
  • Written by Aristphanes
  • Satirical (comedical)
  • The play centers around a Kyria named Praxagora and a group of women she has recruited
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Where and how often would the Athenian assembly gather ?

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Every 10 days on the pnyx

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Who was not allowed to vote? [6]:

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  • people under 18
  • women
  • slaves/ ex-slaves
  • non- Athenian citizens
  • people who have not payed taxes
  • people who have not served in the military for 2years
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Who was the boule? [5]:

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  • council of 500 citizens
  • they would write the agenda of what the assembly would discuss
  • compromised of 50 men from 10 tribes by sortation
  • could not refuse or volunteer
  • only twice in their lifetime
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Who were the archons? [3]

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  • each year 10 archons (one from each tribe) would be chosen by sortation
  • acted as judges
  • only could be there for a year
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What is ostracism?

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  • once a year each citizen would take a piece from a broken ostracon and would write the name of the person they wish to ostracise
  • the person with most votes was exiled for 10 years, they could keep their property and their family didn’t have to leave
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How could a woman have political influence? [3]

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  • be associated with a man in power (eg. Aspasia)
  • have an advanced education
  • not be enslaved
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Assemblywomen [4]:

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  • Athenian play
  • Written by Aristphanes
  • Satirical (comedical)
  • The play centers around a Kyria named Praxagora and a group of women she has recruited
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The Assemblywomen plot [4]:

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  • Praxagora has devised a scheme to take power from the men in Athens and give it to the women
  • They disguise themselves as men and infiltrate the Assembly
  • They will force a vote on whether political power in athens should be given to the women
  • As the women gather together they talk about their husbands in a comedic manner
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In the ‘Assemblywomen’ women are presented as…[4]:

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  • Unreliable
  • Vain
  • Obssessed with sex
  • Obssessed with alcohol
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The trial of Agnodice [5]:

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  • Agnodice was a female doctor disguised as a man
  • She was very popular with her female patients
  • The husbands thought their wives were having an affair with Agnodice
  • There was a court trial which revealed Agnodice was posing as a man
  • The woman pleaded Agnodice’s case so that she would be able to legally carry out her medical practice
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Before Agnodice women were not legally allowed to be…

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doctors

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The structure of the Roman senate [5]:

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  1. The emperor
  2. The two consuls [2] co-heads of military and political relations and passed laws
  3. Praetors [8] ran law courses
  4. Aedile [4] oversaw public services
  5. Quaestors [20] managed romes finances
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The 2 consuls =

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The republic

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The Catilinarian Conspiracy [3]:

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  • Lead by a Roman Man called Catiline
  • It was a plot devised to overthrow the republic
  • Ultimately the conspiracy failed
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Catiline [3]:

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  • He was from a wealthy family
  • He had some political talent so he run for the consulship and failed several times
  • This was very expensive, rendering him almost bankrupt in 63bc
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One of Cataline’ smost appealing promises to his follwers was to…

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Cancel all debt after his revolution

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Many of Cataline’s supporters were in a similar…

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financial situation to Cataline

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The events of the Castilinarian Conspiracy were recorded by…

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The historian and polititian Sallust

20
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how did a man become a senator ?

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-once a man had been elected he was automatically a senate for life

21
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how many magistrates chosen a year?

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once a year the people would vote fir a magistrate

22
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dictatorship in rome [3]

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  • would be chosen by consuls in times of emergency
  • would have more power over consols and had total power
  • would be expected to step down after 6 months
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fabia [3]

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  • married to a plebeian man
  • her sisters husband was a patrician and was a consol so she was jealous
  • her father was so moved that he removed the law that plebeian men could apply for consulship
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what is the roman voting system like?

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america.

25
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what was the oppian law?

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law which forced men to provide the roman military with their wives gold and public display of wealth was banned

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origin of oppian law

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war against carthase made rome financially struggle

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why did the woman disagree with this law ?

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after their efforts with helping the law they should be able to gain their wealth back (they got it back 20 years after the end of the financial crisis)

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how was the oppian law protested against? [3]

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  • the matronae had blocked the streets to the forum
  • they had pressured their husbands and male relatives
  • had consulted with the senior senator Cato

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