CLAS 3P05 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gaius Marius, Cursus Honorum, Novus Homo
22 Nov 2015
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Marius and sulla: optimates, populares, factional polarisation and social war. Senate politics simplified: according to cicero: post- gracchan politics. Actual senate politics: complex web of negotiations between senators, no tradition of senate (novi homines- new men, bound by ties of: Additional complexities- political innovations of 2nd c: 180- age minimum for cursus honorem- senate taking control (everyone get a fair chance, 149- first permanent court established (provincial extortion, 133 secret ballot introduced. Politics and gloria: gaius marius: 133 served at numantia- excellent soldier, 109 jugurthian war- legate under q. metellus (consul 109, 108 metellus refuses political support from marius, broke fides with metellus by competing for jugurthan command awarded by. Marius: consul again, 105 capture of jugurtha, end of war, 104-101- appointed consular command in cimbrian war, no law against repeat office in rome yet, popular agitation, law against repeated consulships suspended.
