CLASSIC 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lictor, 18 Months, Toga
Document Summary
Traditional accounts of political change - sexual violence against women. Expulsion of last king: story of tarquin the proud and lucretia. Expulsion of decemviri (ten men): story of appius claudius and verginia. Livy and the story of the gauls (livy 317-41) Powerful, symbolic closure to the history of early rome. Stanley brandes: male sexual ideology in an andalusian town. Evaluate the attitudes of men in this town towards women and sex. Origins of political institutions attributed to period of the monarchy in rome. Romulus: establishment of senate, insignia of authority, organization of citizen body. 2 chambers: senate and house of rep. Senate: elite body of men, 2 senators from each state, 6 year term, minimum age 30, originally appointed by state legislatures until 1913 (elections) House of rep: popular chamber, 435 members, number apportioned by state population, 2 year term. Original council of elders who advised the king.
