CLASSICS 1M03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gracchi, Plebs, Optimates
14 Apr 2018
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1m03 review: rome: the republic (structure, strengths and weaknesses) Consuls, senate (aristocratic advisory council no legislative powers, listen to legislation make a decree etc. This can look like a polis and this is polybius" goal he is greek and tries to make this sound greek), populus never deliberates and cant reform on its own . Polybius tries to make them look like a polis but despite what polybius says the populus has little power compared to greek polis. Important that much of the system was based on precedent and not concrete laws like the spartan rhetra. As rome expands this old city state is tested and broke. The senate loses more and more power. He is a long line of ambitious aristocrats who don"t follow the rules. Begin to form a long line of aristocrats wanting what they want for. Tribunes are to protect pletribunes to climb the latter.
