CLAS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Gaius Marius, Ancient Carthage, Germanicus

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 1000
• Professor: John Walsh

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Lecture 18 october 24, 2014 roman history. Essay madness 6pm 12 midnight in library november 5th. 146 bc after bringing down the carthaginian empire, the huge surge of wealth and slaves set the romans into turmoil. When the republic was started, it was designed to work on a smaller nation. They came into to much wealth to quickly, and it is ripped apart by class warfare. During this, there was a rise of 3 individually powerful men: the gracchus brothers, gaius, and tiberius sempronius, are very similar to the kennedy brothers. They were from the aristocratic group, however they had a moral feeling for the hardships of the poor. They attempted to redistribute some of the land and wealth through the poor to restabilize the place. They were both assassinated in their attempts, and as the second brother marched with protestors on the senate, the senators went into a closed senate, and the chief priest was there.